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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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
@codeorg, who are bringing opportunity to tens of millions of students in communities like Glasgow, Kentucky.Show this thread -
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
@ghsteachlarry for the work you do each day in the classroom, you are changing the face of computer science; and to Dr. Amy Allen@GHSDrAllen for supporting computer science in your school.Show this thread
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