It is hard to believe summer is almost here. Are you planning those vacations that weren't possible the past two years due to COVID? Breakout Mentors offers highly personalized 1-on-1 coding, meaning we can adjust not just to each student's skill …
Summer 2022 Coding Deep Dives — Sign Up Now For Personalized Learning
Summer is almost here, I know many families are looking forward to traveling for the first time since the pandemic started. Where are you headed? While relaxing it is also important to not lose track of your goals. It is a great chance to advance …
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Data + Iteration = Great College Essay Writing
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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Announcing Our USACO Practice Contest on December 5th
It's that time of year! Thanksgiving, finals, winter break. Busy times! And don't forget the first USACO contest is coming in mid to late December (the date has not been announced yet). USACO is the most prestigious contest for high school students …
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Sentiment Detection Project Highlights – High School Machine Learning
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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One Student’s Machine Learning Success Story – Are You Next?
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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Machine Learning Workshops in November – Our Deep Dive Condensed into 1 Day
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. This exposure and experience is important before …
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Find Out What Machine Learning Is and How You Can Get Started This Summer
Interest in Machine Learning is quickly growing amongst our students and mentors. Ask any Computer Science student what they want to do when the graduate, and you are likely to hear ML or related terms (deep learning, AI, etc.). So what is it? To …
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Summer Coding Deep Dives — Create Your Own Private Camp — Sign Ups Are Open
Summer is a wonderful time to explore new interests and devote additional time to activities that get pushed aside during the busy school year. The most valuable thing to learn that doesn't get enough attention in school? CODING! Sign ups are …
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100% of High School Coders Want to Keep Learning After Our Mock USACO Event
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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