What can a few months of computer science do for you? Judging by the final projects of students in “Introduction to Computing and Programming,” it can lead to everything from better food delivery to ...
In Megan Bowen’s high school robotics class, students made cardboard mazes, quizzed a local expert who brought live birds into her classroom, and decided how they should be graded, all before touching ...
There's a word floating around among students and staff at Antioch High School lately: Stantioch. Teacher Andrew Becker proudly coined the term after the school partnered with Stanford University to ...
During the summer, I taught a computer science course for educators at the Krause Center for Innovation at Foothill College. Funded by Google’s CS4HS grant, this was a four-day intensive “crash course ...
Microsoft HoloLens creator Alex Kipman (right) tests out an application developed by UW students. What happens when a group of talented computer science students at the University of Washington get to ...
In 2013, a who’s who of the tech world came together to launch a new nonprofit called Code.org. The purpose of the organization was to get more computer science into schools. Billionaires like Mark ...
Alante Klyce wants to be a dancer. Yet here she is, inside a sun-filled classroom at Lindblom Math & Science Academy on the city’s South Side, throwing around tech-industry terms like “ideation” and ...
Computer Science Education Week is once again on the horizon, taking place this year on Dec. 3-9, 2018. Many students and teachers will sign up for the Hour of Code, a global movement that invites ...