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Nationwide — Terysa Ridgeway, a pioneering African-American computer scientist and celebrated children’s book author, is on a mission to ignite a passion for coding among children worldwide. With an ...

In the new book Beyond Coding: How Children Learn Human Values Through Programming, Tufts professor Marina Umaschi Bers argues that schools can teach computer coding in ways that develop character as ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- When most of us were in school, we took science classes like biology and chemistry, but computer science may be even more important for today's kids. Yet nearly 90% of ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — This summer the Boys and Girls Clubs of Middle Tennessee is hosting a coding camp where students are learning how to make apps and other things. One of the classes is being ...

A new afterschool program in Durham is offering children a chance to learn profitable and in-demand coding skills for future careers. Two out of three STEM jobs involve software development, so ...

One company is teaching children about computer coding and robotics through a Montessori-style approach. It’s called Code Wiz and the new STEM center is opening soon in Owasso. Code Wiz will provide ...

Writing computer code is an important tool scientists use to learn more about climate change. Climatologists use code to make models that can help predict, mitigate, or even resolve climate disasters.

Jake Burbank, a fifth grader at Ash Creek Elementary School in Independence, says he dreams of becoming a video game designer. He plays so much, his mother limits the amount of time he is allowed to ...

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 ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — This computer programming app is so easy to use that even a kindergartner can do it. Researchers in Massachusetts have created a computer coding app that they say is the first ...