Kids Coding Mentors
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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"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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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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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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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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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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Breakout Mentors provides the personalized approach for kids learning to code. PERSON-alized, because we focus on the individual needs of each student and are led by an actual mentor. The person leading the student is the most important factor for …
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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. The language …
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