Software is the language of our world. In the future, not knowing the language of computers will be as challenging as being illiterate or innumerate are today. /Dan Crow/
Programs that teach kids how to code are popular right now. But, what about kids who are blind or visually impaired? They have Code Jumper, a new program that teaches kids ba...
JOHN COWPLAND/STUFF The New Zealand Blackbots are hoping to compete in an international Lego robotics open at Legoland in California this year. A group of budding robotics...
Back in 2017, Microsoft unveiled Project Torino, a unique physical programming language that taught visually impaired kids the basics of coding. It was a huge step forward for...
Roblox is a fun game that is played by more than 80 million people every month. What’s great about Roblox is that it’s more than a simple game that kids can use in order to...
WITH its Lego-like avatars and easy-to-learn coding for budding programmers, the online gaming app Roblox has cornered the market in younger gamers, with 80 million monthly us...
With more and more kids using screen-based devices these days, adults fear that the days of using your imagination is gone. The problem with losing this type of play is that i...
Learning to code, regardless of the path a child chooses to take, is crucial today. Research shows us that this knowledge will be important in any career. As both a female lea...
Whether you are a computer science student or aspiring to self-teach yourself programming, it can be an uphill task sometimes. Mastering programming could be challengi...
Combining education and gaming is nothing new and many of us grew up playing popular titles such as The Oregon Trail, Sim City and Reader Rabbit. However, with advances in bot...
Pepper, the humanoid robot, isn’t shy. “I’m very happy you are all here today,” the robot said to a crowd at English High School in Boston Monday. Pepper dances, gives high ...
More from Northern Virginia More from Northern Virginia Growing up, Shontya Washington watched her father code and fell in love with computers. She recalls sitting at ...
Photo Credit: Root Robotics Is it a toy? A tiny Roomba? Nope, it’s better (especially if you have kids). The Root (available on Amazon for $179) is an educational ro...
Fourth Graders from Mrs. Stacy Watson’s Class (KTVO).jpg Macon, Mo. — Fourth grade students at Macon Elementary School are learning how to code – using robots. But, th...
If there's one thing that both the Trump and Obama White Houses agree upon, it's the importance of computer science education for children in America. Because of how...
Carmen Alexa, left, and Lily Dalstra celebrate their success with their Ozobot Kennen Claus’ favorite part about Ozobot robots is the “party time” programming available for...
New elementary club focuses on robotics, programming Although students at all four Albert Lea Area Schools elementaries are working with dashes and dots, it’s not Morse c...
STEM kits and robots are a growing trend for Holiday toys. Like in past years, the STEM and robot toy trend is growing rapidly. It just makes a lot of sense for parents to ...
Samaira Mehta, the Founder and CEO of CoderBunnyz, has designed a STEM game that is being used as a coding tool in 106 schools in the US within a year of launch.Samaira Mehta ...
The makers of Endless OS are back with a new low-cost laptop dubbed The Hack Computer — for teaching kids how to code. Endless Computers didn’t design this Hack computer them...
The sleek color design, co-working layout and Cornhole board give a new Farmington coding school the feel of a Silicon Valley startup. That makes sense, considering that theC...
A new solution aimed at kids and made by an ex-Google employee could get your little one coding in no time. It’s 2018, and we’re encouraging kids to code now more than ever. ...
Kano, a company that makes a series of coding kits for children and those new to programming, recently released a $99 Harry Potter-themed kit complete with a programmable wand...
Posted on October 2, 2018 I’ve got the luckiest kids in the world – some cool things come to our office for them to see before things...
The Kano OS operating system together with the Story Mode app teach basic computing and programming concepts using a series of fun-packed coding challenges. ...
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Lil’Bot is a great introductory steps to the world of psysical programming. Lil’Bot is programmed just like an Arduino Uno, and takes standard Arduino shields. About half of t...
Award-winning ed-tech platform from Digital Dream Labs which combines hands-on play & interactive gaming to teach STEAM principles to K-5 students. Puzzlets is a hardware ...
The Fisher-Price Think & Learn Code-a-pillar inspires little learners to be big thinkers by encouraging preschoolers to arrange (and rearrange) the easy-to-connect segment...
littleBits makes a platform of easy-to-use electronic building blocks empowering everyone to create inventions, large and small. This goes beyond the coding activity, it suppo...
Cato’s Hike’ is a game for the iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch to teach kids and young children basic programming skills. A Programming and Logic Odyssey takes kids on a story-based ad...
The CodeCombat game is a browser-based role-playing game that teaches the programming language Javascript, as well as the fundamentals of computer science. In order to advance...
Jimu Robot is an interactive building block robotics kit that empowers children/teenagers to create and program their own robots. Along the way, they engage in powerful hands-...
CodeMonkey is an online game that teaches both the fundamentals and advanced topics in computer programming. Use coding skills to program a monkey to grab bananas and ride the...
