Information on infusing leadership and life skills in K-12 education.
Computers are everywhere, but fewer schools teach computer science than 10 years ago. If you heard about the Hour of Code last year, you might know it made history. In one week, 15 million students tried computer science! Code.org has developed the Hour of Code as a one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify code and show that
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The UC Davis Center for Integrated Computing and STEM Education (C-STEM Center) has had a “break-out” year and is having a great impact on K-14 education and workforce development. Recently the C-STEM has become a UC Approved Educational Preparation Program as well as gaining the UC A-G program status. With these two accomplishments, C-STEM leadership anticipates exponential growth in
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Our 21st century economy runs on digital networks. Organizations of all kinds depend on a workforce educated to design, build and operate these networks. Analysts expect the information and communications technology (ICT) sector to generate an increasing number of high-skill, in-demand jobs across a broad spectrum of industries. You may be familiar with computing “in
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The 2014 Google Code-in contest has launched to introduce pre-university students (ages 13-17) to the many kinds of contributions that make open source software development possible. The contest runs from December 1, 2014 to January 19, 2015. For many students the Google Code-in contest is their first introduction to open source development. For Google Code-in
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