1-on-1 Kids Coding Mentors
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 …
Did you know last week was Computer Science Education Week? Millions of kids all over the world do because they did something different in school ... CODING! Last week was code.org's Hour of Code. California alone had 6611 locations registered for …
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The Breakout Mentors approach to coding requires much more from our instructors than a summer camp or after-school center. Let's compare it to kids learning to make art. It is easy to help someone color between the lines. It is a highly structured …
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The term coding environment usually refers to what program you type your code into on the computer. It matters, but for kids the learning environment is more important. The learning environment is your surroundings, including the people around …
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Soccer moms had it easy. Remember in the 90s when that became an everyday term? Well a lot has changed since then. The modern parent juggles a lot more than just soccer. Now there are multiple year-round sports that often overlap, and somehow a …
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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 …
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