Kids Coding Mentors
Breakout Mentors students meet weekly with their mentor and learn to code through creating fun projects. The Student Showcase is a chance for them to show off what they have accomplished and be inspired by other kids. Our showcase in Los Altos …
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Our students working with 1-on-1 programming mentors have made some fun projects over the course of the year. In early June we had our second annual Student Showcase event, where they had the opportunity to share a project and see what other kids …
Mitch Resnick is the Director of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at MIT Media Lab, the creators of the Scratch programming environment. He recently gave a TED talk about the benefits of teaching kids to code and how Scratch is perfect for the job. …
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Minecraft is the game everyone is playing these days. It's really impressive how such a simple game, with so few rules, has gathered such a massive following. There are 40 million registered players, with more joining every day. Many of these players …
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Do you need a computer in order to learn how to program? That might sound like a trick question, but in fact, you can learn fundamental programming concepts without a computer. How? By moving around physical objects. Ubi de Feo created a series of …
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Parents with programming experience often ask if Scratch is the best way for their children to learn how to program. They say "when I was 12 I learned BASIC, why not start with something harder?" Or "can they really learn the fundamental concepts in …
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Scratch is a programming environment designed to allow kids as young as 8 years old to create impressive computer games, stories, and animations. It is so fun kids don't even realize they are learning important programming concepts at the same time. …
Do schools encourage creativity? They may try, but are they are not very effective. Here is a better question - can schools come up with a way to measure creative progress? Is there such a thing as "imagining and creating at a 6th grade level" as …
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