Mark your calendars for the hour of code week! Computer science is foundational for all students today. Yet 90% of schools don't teach it. Last December, 15 million students tried computer science in one week, thanks to educators like you! Since then, over 40 million students have tried the Hour of Code . Please help this grassroots, teacher-driven campaign reach 100 million students by the end of the year. Sign up to participate in Hour of Code 2014 during December 8-14, Computer Science Education Week. I participated last year with my elementary students at St. Michael's. I knew absolutely nothing about coding before we began. Let's just say that my mind was blown! The kids absolutely LOVE this stuff. They learn to think critically, problem solve creatively, and provide exact step-by-step directions in order to accomplish a task. The first day of class this year, the #1 question I got from my 2nd-5th graders was "Are we goin...
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