1-on-1 Kids Coding Mentors
The school year is chugging along and Breakout Mentors has already paired dozens of kids 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 personalize the …
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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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Hard to believe another school year is coming to a close! The Breakout Mentors students have made a ton of progress learning how to code and creating exciting projects. Every year we do a showcase event, similar to a science fair, that is a lot of …
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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! Teaching your children important life skills while they are young can have drastic impacts on their …
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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, …
After months of rain in the Bay Area, it feels like spring just started. But summer is right around the corner! As a parent, you want to make good use of your son or daughter's extra time. So you sign up for camps and enrichment activities that …
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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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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 …
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 …
