Kicking Off Computer Science Week with an Hour of Code

Happy Computer Science Education Week!

Q:  Why celebrate computer science education week with our students?

A:  By 2020, an estimated one million computer programming jobs in the U.S. will go unfilled,  according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Today Exploring Computer Science student, Aaron Gross, helped Mrs. Molenaar's 7th grade math students celebrate the opening of Computer Science Education Week.  Aaron led and assisted the students in an Hour of Code through code.org.  Students solved a minimum of 15 puzzles using commands common to computer programming in a gaming-like platform with characters from Minecraft, Star Wars, and Frozen.  For more information and resources to expose your K-12 students to an Hour of Code,  check out the following sites (arranged in order of youngest students to oldest ones).

Kodable https://www.kodable.com/hour-of-code

Tynker https://www.tynker.com/hour-of-code/

Code.org https://code.org/

Khan Academy https://www.khanacademy.org/hourofcode

Codecademy https://www.codecademy.com/hour-of-code