CODE N.E.W. 4KIDS
CODING CLUB
ABOUT US
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Our Mission
Is to inspire our youth with activities that help them learn the concepts of Coding. To help provide Community centers, School Disricts, and, or Non profit Organizations with Tools and resources, needed to host:
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Afterschool Activities
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Robot Tournments
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Coding conventions
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Organize online Coding Activities for for Kids
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Interns from local Colleges who Study in the field of Coding, Progaming, or IT Services to volinteers
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A visit from the Pro's via Skype or in person
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We will also provide activities that supports the concept of computational thinking as a fundamental Part of Solving problems in the world around them.
Computational thinking is a way of solving problems, designing systems, and understanding human behavior that draws on concepts fundamental to computer science. To flourish in today's world, computational thinking has to be a fundamental part of the way people think and understand the world.
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What is Computational Thinking?
Computational thinking (CT) is a problem-solving process that includes (but is not limited to) the following characteristics:
• Formulating problems in a way that enables us to use a computer and other tools to help solve them.
• Logically organizing and analyzing data
• Representing data through abstractions such as models and simulations
• Automating solutions through algorithmic thinking (a series of ordered steps)
• Identifying, analyzing, and implementing possible solutions with the goal of achieving the most efficient and effective combination of steps and resources
• Generalizing and transferring this problem solving process to a wide variety of problems
These skills are supported and enhanced by a number of dispositions or attitudes that are essential dimensions of CT. These dispositions or attitudes include:
• Confidence in dealing with complexity
• Persistence in working with difficult problems
• Tolerance for ambiguity
• The ability to deal with open ended problems
• The ability to communicate and work with others to achieve a common goal or solution
Why should our Youth learn coding?
There will be 1.4 million computing jobs by 2020 but only 400,000 computer science students by that time, according to Code.org, a nonprofit with a list of who's who in the tech world on its advisory board includingTwitter creator Jack Dorsey and Dropbox CEO Drew Houston. And the jobs pay well. The median annual wage for a computer programmer, for instance, was $71,380 in 2010, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Meanwhile, jobs for network and computer systems administrators are growing at double the national average, with a median annual salary of $69,160
Don't high schools and universities offer Computer programing Courses?
Nine out of 10 high schools don't offer computer programming classes and the number of students graduating from college with a computer science degree is down from a decade ago, according to Code.org.
Barbara Ericson, director of computer outreach at the Institute for Computing Education at Georgia Tech, said people sometimes ask: why not wait until children are older to start teaching them how to program?
"Anything over the age of 7 is capable, they are capable of learning reasoning," she said.
During a presentation earlier this month at a technology conference inWashington, D.C., Code.org founder Hadi Partovi said less than 5 percent of U.S. high school students spend class time learning computer science while it's a graduation requirement in China. He noted that many "software" jobs are outside the tech industry such as banking, retail, government and entertainment, which makes programming skills particularly versatile
CODE-N.E.W. (Neiborhood Educational Workshops) 4KiDS
One hour of coding a day is recommended as a learning model with fun activities found on online for free. We're helping Kids to understand Coding with activities to build a understanding of Coding and Computational thinking.
Our Workshops are setup to facilitate ONE HOUR OR MORE of Coding Activities for Youth in coordination with Host Community Centers, After School Programs sites, or Boys & Girls Clubs.
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