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San Jose area Hackathon High school students organized and held a hackathon this weekend in San Jose for 1200 high school students. This number of students breaks last year’s record of over 700 students. This is the second year of the event, named “HSHacks II” which was conceived, organized and funded by high school students
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The Capital Region Academies for the Next Economy (CRANE) has partnered with the creators of the Exploring Computer Science course to offer the 2015 Exploring Computer Science Northern California Summer Institute at the Placer County Office of Education Seavey Center in Rocklin from June 8 to June 12. This week-long opportunity will connect teachers into
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The Legislative Analyst’s Office yesterday released a report entitled: Implementation Update: Reforming Transfer From CCC to CSU that makes recommendations for improving college pathway success for students. One of the report recommendations is for the colleges to provide additional information for counselors and advisers so that students can understand how courses they take at a
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Each year over five hundred high school students fill the Hewlett Packard (HP), Houston campus, ready to put their programming skills to the test as they try to solve as many problems as possible in three hours. This year, HP is holding CodeWars competitions at eight sites in five countries. Two years ago, the first
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