Spencer had worked on it for weeks. His teacher, Mr. Correll, had promised to take him out for breakfast at Hardee's if he could get it right.
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Here's an amazing story and why I love my job... A few weeks ago, I saw a teacher tweet a video of a Tetris game a student named Spencer made on @codeorg.
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I tried Spencer’s game, but it didn’t work on my phone. His teacher, Mr. Correll wrote “It only works on a computer. Spencer doesn’t have a cell phone. I’m encouraging him to continue CS. I sure hope he gets a chance to go to college.”
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Hearing Mr. Correll talk about this kid’s potential, I decided to buy Spencer a phone, so he can finish his app.
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Here is Spencer receiving his gift. From Mr. Correll: “When I told the class what was going on, one of the young women started crying.”pic.twitter.com/kMTHuqwymv
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And here’s Spencer’s working game. https://studio.code.org/projects/applab/sA9us_OXMCR45s6zoh79uQ …pic.twitter.com/XTCGzTQHRD
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Mr. Correll teaches in Glasgow, Kentucky, ranked the poorest community in the state. 70% of Glasgow students are on free lunch programs. 14% are homeless.
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With the help of
@codeorg, the school began teaching computer science, and it has “rejuvenated the whole school”. 90% of Mr. Correll’s students have passed the AP computer science exam. (The national pass-rate is 70%)Show this thread -
Spencer Applegate is graduating high school this year, he may never attend college, yet he recreated Tetris (a billion-$ game) in 500 lines of code.
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Mr. Correll is one of 1.1M teachers on
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Nominate a teacher for a scholarship to take the same training the helped Mr. Correll begin teaching computer science. http://code.org/nominate . And consider supporting our work with a donation: http://code.org/donate
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Thank you to Larry Correll
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