Author: jwadella

Girl Scout Troop #177 learns to code

When our October session sold out in less than a week, I immediately began getting distressed emails from parents who wanted their child to be able to participate. One requested a special session for her daughter’s Girl Scout troop, so

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Codeacademy.com’s After School Coding

With a very successful session under our belt, we allowed more kids to attend the November session, and recruited 22 mentors and 3 volunteers to support them. We changed things up a bit by directing the kids to sign up

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CoderDojoKC’s first session – building websites.

For our first session, we wanted to have the kids create something to get them excited about the endless possibilities the knowledge of coding offers. We gave the kids basic examples of html pages and different tags to use to

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Bringing the Dojo to Kansas City

CoderDojo is phenomenal concept greatly needed in Kansas City. There is a huge need for technical, code-based skill sets, and access to tools and ways to learn isn’t as readily available as we would like. Enter CoderDojo, a fun concept

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