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GE takes coding to the kids

August 14, 2015
Oh to be a primary-school kid again. Specifically, a kid at Yarra Primary in the inner-city Melbourne suburb of Richmond. With dynamo principal Tracy Hammill at the helm, the school is already a member of Melbourne University’s Excellence in STEM Education (ESTEME) program.
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When you code you begin with 01000001 01000010 01000011

June 16, 2015
The kids arriving in the GE Melbourne and Sydney offices after school barely pause to throw down their backpacks so they can get right back to coding. They’re all the children of GE employees and have been part of the company’s new Coding for Kids program, which has run through term two, one afternoon a week.
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Get with the programming: why all kids will be coders

June 10, 2015
 

“Coding is the new literacy. To thrive in tomorrow’s society, young people must learn to design, create and express themselves with digital technologies.” —Mitchel Resnick, media arts and sciences professor at the MIT Media Lab.
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Clever Country Code: 5 coding solutions paying it forward

May 06, 2015
Do you speak #BinaryCode? Join the conversation as machines communicate in their native tongue at Tweeting Machines and on Twitter: #GE0101
Talk, talk, talk. Computers are becoming increasingly interactive, communicating with each other and with us. Here are five disparate projects, all local examples of how code contributes. Talk about brilliant.
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Empowering Low-Income Youth to Code

July 24, 2014

For low-income teens in Oakland, California, success across the bay in Silicon Valley seems impossibly far when gang violence and tussles with the police are daily happenings at home.

Silicon Valley is home to the some of the world’s top coders and developers, whose apps—like ride-sharing and travel deal platforms—often aren’t relevant to low-opportunity teens from the inner city. How can these teens get a shot at participating in the ever-growing app economy?


Empower them to code on their own.

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