Jobs are a very enticing argument and/or motivation for coding education for adults, but young coders need more hands-on engagement. For example, consider the impact of robotics. News 6 takes a look at this in a recent article titled “Muskogee Students Learn Coding, Robotics After School.”
Tony Russell of News 6 writes, “It’s a first for Muskogee Public Schools. Starting next week, more than 80 students at Robertson Junior High School will get a chance to do more extra curricular activities after school. When the bell rings around three, students who don’t play sports at Alice Robertson Junior High School go home. That gives them about two and a half hours to do whatever they want while they wait for their parents to come home from work. So the school decided to ask for grant money from the Oklahoma Department of Education to keep the students learning after school. Austin Robinett, an eighth grader, is signing up for the program in hopes of getting hands-on learning after class. He and his fellow students believe the program is needed in Muskogee. ‘You have a whole bunch of kids who have nothing to do after school, so they go out and do whatever they want to do with their friends and go get in trouble,’ he said. ‘I think it’s a great opportunity for kids to learn something that would actually benefit their future and their career.’ ‘It’s really important because it gives us something to do after school,’ said Phuong Ngyuen, a seventh-grade student.”
Or for another look at engagement, consider a recent article for CBS DC titled “Maryland Coding Contest Encourages Students to Pursue Computer Science.” According to the author of the article, “An hour of computer coding might be the first step toward a well-paying career in computer science. That’s the idea behind the Hour of Code challenge happening across the country and in Maryland Public Schools. According to Code.org, Maryland currently has nearly 20,000 open computing jobs, but only 2,000 computer science students graduating from the state’s colleges and universities. ‘We are not graduating enough students in computers science fields to fill those jobs,’ says Cindy Hasslebring, special assistant to the state superintendent of schools. The average salary for a computer science occupation in Maryland is $98,593. To encourage more students to learn this profitable skill, the Maryland Hour of Code contest will give a $10,000 technology award to a public school that provides an hour of coding to each of its students during Computer Science Education Week, Dec. 7-13.”
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