It's with a heavy heart that I share with the Breakout Mentors community the passing of Mischa Nee. Mischa was a junior at Stanford and involved in a hiking accident while studying abroad. Mischa was part of Breakout Mentors the last two years, …
Coding a Christmas Game – Featured Kid Programming Project
You never know where inspiration will strike. Peter is a 13 year-old boy in 8th grade at the Chinese American International School in San Francisco. He started with a coding mentor back in September and right away started making exciting …
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Being a Girl in STEM – Having Few Peers and Finding Role Models
I distinctly remember the first time I realized that I was in the significant minority in a STEM class. I was in my high school AP Physics class with 3 girls (myself included) and 12 boys. One of my female classmates pointed it out to me - "Where …
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Middle School Girl’s Coding Project: From Scratch to Android Java
"igpay atinlay anslatortray" If you were once a kid, you may recognize the above as Pig Latin. Recently, a Breakout Mentors student created a Pig Latin translator app for Android phones using Java. This young lady from Oakland is only 14 years …
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What I Wish I Knew About Coding Before Stanford
Jeyla is one of our kid coding mentors at Stanford University and shares her perspective about what she wishes she knew earlier about learning to code. As a Computer Science major, it’s no surprise that I love to code. However, this wasn’t always …
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Keep the Hour of Code Momentum Going All Year Long
The Hour of Code is an incredible annual event that encourages every school to spend one hour of class time coding. The vast adoption worldwide is remarkable. Did you know that over 100 million students have participated across 180 …
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Get to Know a Few Mentors Helping Kids Learn to Code
The Breakout Mentors approach to coding requires a lot from our instructors. Much more than a summer camp or after-school center that will have a step-by-step tutorial led by a high school student. To illustrate the difference, let's compare it to …
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Consistency: Kids Coding Mentor of the Month Anna Verwillow
It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently. ― Tony Robbins Consistency is the secret to the personalized approach for kids learning to code. There is no perfect curriculum or teacher that can reach …
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