Kids Coding Mentors
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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With a heavy heart I want to share the news of our former mentor Courtney Brousseau's death. He graduated from UC Berkeley one year ago and was tragically shot a week ago in San Francisco - an innocent bystander in the wrong place at the wrong time. …
The school year is chugging along, and Breakout Mentors has already paired dozens of kid coders with new coding mentors. For some students, this is their very first time programming and others we have worked with for years. Our goal is to …
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Parenting today involves navigating a dizzying array of options. There are more kids products than ever before, more activity options than time in the day. The worst part: as soon as one decision is made, you'll soon have to make it again. …
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The goal of education is to prepare children for life. However, education doesn't just happen in the classroom, parents can start at an early age, and there are lots of necessary skills to teach your kids so they can achieve success in …
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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, …
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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