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What I Learned from Hour of Code (x12)

Melissa Ford

Each day, when I returned to the school like the Pied Piper of Circuits to lead another round of workshops, more and more kids started gathering at the computer lab door. I think that’s a sign of how interested kids are to keep exploring STEM fields. I had a fifth grader who told me at the beginning of the workshop that she didn’t really like computers who informed me later that she’s now thinking about studying computer science. I think that’s an hour well spent. After all, there are going to be 1.2 million new jobs in STEM fields in 2018. Who is going to fill them if we don’t raise the next generation with that information?

GeekMom Gift Guide: Toys, Video Games, and Apps

Jenny Bristol

Toys have been around forever. But no childhood or geeky household has been complete without video games for decades, and now apps are ubiquitous parts of helping us entertain and educate our kids. Check out the GeekMom recommendations for these items this holiday season, and there are a few tabletop gaming stragglers tossed in for good measure!

Empowering Kids with Kits and Bits

Admin

The idea was to help the kids understand the why and the how of Sandy. Oh, and to get them familiar with littleBits’ product while they were at it. An opportunistic move, certainly, but a pretty ingenious one: get kids …