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Code Club 

Code Club is a nationwide network of free volunteer-led after school coding clubs for children aged 9-11.We create projects for our volunteers to teach at after school coding clubs or at non-school venues such as libraries. The projects we make teach children how to program by showing them how to make computer games, animations and websites. Our volunteers go to their local club for an hour a week and teach one project a week.Each term the students will progress and learn more whilst at the same time using their imaginations and making creative projects. Terms 1 & 2 use Scratch to teach the basics of programming. Term 3 teaches the basics of web development using HTML and CSS. Term 4 teaches Python and so on.

We have also created online training for our volunteers, to make sure they have all the info and know-how they need to run a successful Code Club.

We’d like to put a Code Club in every single primary school in the country. There are over 21,000 primary schools in the UK, it’s a big task but we think we can do it!

In November 2015 Code Club became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Raspberry Pi Foundation with the combined aim of creating a Code Club in every community in the world.

Source: Code Club | About

About | TechPrep

TechPrep is a Facebook-led initiative, supported by McKinsey & Company and created for parents, guardians and learners who want to understand more about computer science (CS) and programming. It’s a collection of fun and interesting information, resources and videos tailored to a variety of ages and experience levels. We created TechPrep in response to our understanding, supported by a research study, about the participation of underrepresented minorities in programming careers.

Source: About | TechPrep

Everybody Code Now! | Empowering the Next Generation of Leaders in Computing

Everybody Code Now! Is a non-profit organization that works to empower the next generation of leaders in computing to transform their future and help lead their communities towards a new era of technical expertise and entrepreneurship from exposure to basic programming skills. Through Everybody Code Now’s various camps, workshops, and mentorship opportunities, Everybody Code Now shows students that with determination, hard work, and a couple lines of code, the future is theirs for the making.

Source: Everybody Code Now! | Empowering the Next Generation of Leaders in Computing

Computing Education Blog

About Computing Education BlogComputing Education Research is about how people come to understanding computing, and how we can facilitate that understanding.  I am Mark Guzdial, a professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology.  I am a researcher in computing education.  See more about me at http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~mark.guzdial and my work at http://www.mediacomputation.org and http://www.gacomputes.org.

via About Computing Education Blog | Computing Education Blog.

CSTUY – Computer Science and Technology for Urban Youth

In 1990, Mike Zamansky left his job as a software engineer for Goldman Sachs and entered the teaching profession. A few years later, at New York City’s prestigious Stuyvesant High School, he noticed a lack of opportunities for students to study computer science and related field. This started a twenty year journey to try to share his passion for computer science with youngsters and inspire them to go on to do great things in technology related fields.

Over the years Mike was joined by master teachers like JonAlf Dyrland-Weaver and Samuel Konstantinovich. Together, at Stuyvesant High School they have designed new courses, trained new teachers, run after school and summer programs, and built a community of Stuyvesant Computer Science Alumni that now permeate the Tech Industry.

Having dealt with the frustrations of working within the system to try to bring more opportunities to more youngsters and inspired by their alumni community, Mike, Sam, and JonAlf, have joined with Jennifer Hsu and Artie Jordan along with other members of the Stuy CS Community to form CSTUY, Computer Science and Technology for Urban Youth. An organization dedicated to bringing computer science and technology related educational opportunities to high school and middle school students.

What makes us different

Real teachers

Computer Science as a field faces a real dilemma. Due to licensing restrictions, there are very few teachers with strong computer science backgrounds. The flip side is that teaching is an art and a difficult one at that. The ability to teach at more than the most superficial level takes years to develop.

Most existing computer science programs are run by volunteers with limited teaching experience or by teachers with limited tech knowledge.

CSTUY has the advantage of having master teachers with strong technical backgrounds with a history of not only delivering inspirational instruction but also of developing courses and course sequences that are time tested.

continue reading About | CSTUY.

Mission – CodeNOW

Coding is the new literacy. It gives individuals the power to innovate and create. We need to empower our youth, especially those from underrepresented communities, to be tinkerers and to look under the hood of technology.

Because of a deficiency in early exposure to computer science, underrepresented youth are increasingly being marginalized from high-quality careers in the tech sector. For example, of all tech industry workers in the United States in 2012, only 22% were women, and African-Americans and Latinos each made up less than 5%. CodeNow believes this disparity is growing not from lack of interest but from a lack of access to computer programming.

CodeNow is a nonprofit that teaches foundational skills in computer programming to underserved high school students. We partner with community organizations to hold free, extra curricular, off campus trainings for high school students. Our program is essential because it lowers the barriers normally associated with technology by giving students exposure to programming at an early age when they are beginning to explore their options and opportunities. We are currently operating in New York City, Washington D.C., and San Francisco.

via Mission – CodeNOW.

CodeDay

CodeDays are 24-hour events where high school and college students of all experience levels get together, make something cool, and become better programmers.

Participants tell us CodeDay is both one of the most important experiences in their lives, and one of the most important. Want to see what makes it so great? Check out this video! When you’re ready to attend your first CodeDay, check the list on our homepage!

continue reading About | CodeDay.

A Day to Remember the First Computer Programmer Was a Woman – NYTimes.com

In 1842, Ada Lovelace, known as the “enchantress of numbers,” wrote the first computer program.

A Day to Remember the First Computer Programmer Was a Woman - NYTimes.com

Fast-forward 171 years to today (which happens to be Ada Lovelace Day, for highlighting women in science, technology, engineering and math), and computer programming is dominated by men.

Women software developers earn 80 percent of what men with the same jobs earn. Just 18 percent of computer science degrees are awarded to women, down from 37 percent in 1985. Fewer than 5 percent of venture-backed tech start-ups are founded by women.

via A Day to Remember the First Computer Programmer Was a Woman – NYTimes.com.