Kids Coding Mentors
Machine Learning is the future of coding, and in the last couple of years, more of our advanced students are focusing on it. Ask a Computer Science major what they want to go into. I bet it is ML. Parents frequently ask us “is my son or daughter …
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by Dominique Padurano, M.S., Ed., Ph.D. Left brained versus right brained. STEM versus humanities. For too long, the field of education siloed disciplines and ways of thinking into mutually exclusive, even contradictory, lives of the mind. …
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This is a real project from a student in our Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Academy. Taylor is a high school sophomore, and her favorite subjects in school are Ethics and Biology. She became interested in Machine Learning (ML) after …
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The Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Track with Breakout Mentors has grown enormously in the past year. It is amazing the types of real world projects students can make in a relatively short time. Nashita is a high school junior who …
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Breakout Mentors trains students for competitive programming in our USACO Competitive Programming Academy. Many of the kids we work with have never tried competitive programming, so we wanted to provide an opportunity for everyone to give it a try, …
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Breakout Mentors prides itself on personalizing coding education for each student's interests and abilities. This can be 8 year-olds doing Scratch drag-and-drop programming, but also high school students who have been coding for years. As our …
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There’s no stopping a train coming down the tracks. Why? It built up momentum out of sight. Breakout Mentors believes momentum is also important in education, particularly for coding education. There isn’t one stroke of genius or an invention that …
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We love helping kids progress from the coding basics towards more advanced projects and concepts. Today, we are featuring one of those students, Mason a 7th grader from San Francisco. Let's hear from him about his project (view with subtitles on …
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