ERIKA: IN TODAY'S 5 FOR GOOD, FREE CODING CLASSES FOR KIDS WHO OTHERWISE MIGHT NOT HAVE ACCESS TO THAT KIND OF LEARNING. >> ZOMBIES ON THE ATTACK. THIS IS A VIDEO GAME BRAINSTORMING SESSION. >> THAT ...
My five- and seven-year-old constantly fight over who gets the iPad first. We have one, and they get to use it in tiny doses, usually when I'm at my wit's end. Their favorite app? ScratchJr, MIT's ...
Toy robots are nothing new. In the 1980s, the R2D2-like Tomy Verbot or the clunky Milton Bradley Big Trak let kids program their movements or actions using voice commands or a keypad. The marketing ...
Early coding skills give kids an advantage for tech-related jobs. Coding could help shape the future of education. Kids learn logical thinking, adaptability, and problem-solving through coding that ...
Coding is a big deal right now. Worldwide, 36 million kids have taken part in “Hour of code” activities, helping them become active, rather than passive users of technology and starting learning that ...
Like many mom friends, Michelle Preddice and Andrea Dabal met through their children years ago. But these days, their meet ups are more business than social. Together, the two are opening up a Code ...
As someone who’s had my children in the last decade, I can tell you that the pushy-parent movement sometimes makes me feel like I’m failing my kids because they can’t code. I’ve always been a bit ...
It’s been more than a year since University of Virginia alumna Sarah Lau and several of her former McIntire School of Commerce classmates taught coding to students at Charlottesville’s Walker Upper ...
When Samaira Mehta was six years old, her father played a prank on her. 'He showed me basically something on his computer which had one button and a command which said, ‘Press this if you're beautiful ...
MISSOULA, Mont. — The Missoula Family YMCA, in collaboration with Coding for Kids and the University of Montana Summer Office will offer a STEAM program this summer for kids in grades three through 12 ...