Kids Coding Mentors
On April 16th we hosted our first Student Showcase in Berkeley. The event gives Breakout Mentors students a chance to share what they have created with the help of their mentor. Imagine a science fair just for kids who code! This year marks …
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Every year thousands of kids enroll in coding summer camps. They can be a fun way to provide a first taste of programming. But there are also over 20 other kids in the room and there is very little customization. Everyone does the same thing and …
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I talk to many parents of young coders through free avenues and events - mainly the Breakout Mentors 15 minute phone consultation and CoderDojo Silicon Valley. Everyone wants to support their kid's interest in programming and give them the …
Our students working with 1-on-1 programming mentors have made some fun projects over the course of the year. In early June we had our second annual Student Showcase event, where they had the opportunity to share a project and see what other kids …
As a busy parent, you have no interest in learning how to code. After a long day, the last thing you want to do is to spend many hours learning computer programming you won't use. But your young son or daughter loves coding and you want to be able to …
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In the same sense that studying English isn’t just about learning vocabulary words, studying computer science isn’t about learning programming languages. Programming is very abstract, it is a way of communicating with the computer, and the language …
This article is by Austin Gandy, one of our exciting programming mentors. He is a junior at UC Berkeley studying Computer Science and has been a mentor for a year and a half. With a look of nervous anticipation on his face, Nico ran the program …
Breakout Mentors underwent a lot of growth in 2014, welcoming over a dozen talented new mentors! We recently updated the Our Mentors section of the website to include some of the mentors that joined in the last year. We have a wide variety of …
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