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Coderrific Academy officially launches in Newark and Middletown in the fall with extracurricular coding courses for students as young as 7. Coderrific students Paul and Andrew building their own ...

When the Hour of Code launched in 2013, I set aside my English curriculum for one day so my eighth graders could experiment with computer coding. There was just one problem: I had never written a line ...

“Kids are learning to code. But more importantly, they are coding to learn,” said Mitch Resnick in a recent TED Talk presentation, “Let’s Teach Kids to Code.” Resnick is Director of the MIT Media Lab ...

STAMFORD — Charlotte Primo’s Chromebook screen displayed floating images of gallons of milk, humans, and one black cat. To an outsider, the imagery may look like nonsense, but at the Beyond Limits ...

“It’s like making my own little world,” beams fourteen-year-old Aarav Golecha as he arranges colourful blocks to make a character jump across the screen. He giggles with excitement each time the ...