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Coding outside the lines: CoderDojos get kids psyched about programming by turning them loose

The Hechinger Report

Singh’s daughter Garima founded the Dojo as a high school junior (she’s now at Yale), a year after she reluctantly took computer science at school and fell in love with it, much to her surprise. Who wants to do the first demo?”. Still, not everybody loves the unstructured approach. Several small hands shot into the air.

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Arkansas schools hire untrained teachers as people lose interest in the profession

The Hechinger Report

Davida Walls never thought she would be teaching high school biology, let alone in the first few months after graduating from college at 22. She is trying to decide whether to become a doctor or a nurse, and plans to apply for a program to train for one or the other this year. I’ve done demos before. We’ve done labs.