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Hour of Code

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Computer Science Education Week; Seattle’s new aerospace accelerator; and more

Computer Science Education week is just around the corner, taking place from Dec. 5 -11. This annual event is a… Read More

Microsoft, UW participate in ‘Hour of Code’ events to get students interested in computer science

Computer science is taking over classrooms all across the world this week thanks to a Seattle-based non-profit. Code.org is organizing… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Hour of Code 2015, New Tech Eastside, and more

Computer science education week, an annual program designed to inspire kids to code, kicks off globally Dec. 7. As part of… Read More

1M girls and 1M African-American and Hispanic students learn to code!

Code.org has reached a major milestone: The organization happily reports that a million girls and a million African-American and Hispanic students… Read More

America’s Coder in Chief: Barack Obama writes first line of code in Hour of Code challenge

President Barack Obama is the latest newsmaker to join the challenge to learn to code. The “Coder in Chief” sat down with… Read More

Apple jumps on Hour of Code bandwagon with free workshops in retail stores

Apple will take part in Code.org’s Hour of Code effort next week by hosting free workshops at its retail stores… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Hour of Code, Jesse Jackson in Seattle, Home Automation Demo Day, and more

Our economic landscape is changing and traditional grade school education doesn’t always respond quickly enough. A strong foundation in technology, particularly… Read More

Seattle CoderDojo: Free weekly weekend meetups teach your kid how to code

For some kids, Saturday morning is a time for cartoon-watching. However, for a few Seattle-area youngsters, those hours typically reserved… Read More

Computer science exposure: ‘Hour of Code’ campaign reaches 10 million students

So far, the “Hour of Code” movement seems to be working — at least from an exposure standpoint. The campaign,… Read More

Girls and Seattle rule the “Hour of Code” leaderboards

No, it’s not a competition, but Seattle is totally crushing the Hour of Code. And so are the nation’s girls.… Read More

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