Today we ran a workshop at the Philadelphia Performing Arts Charter School! Today we ran a workshop at the Performing Arts Charter School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The students hadn’t done any programming before, and we started off with a short presentation before moving into doing the actual coding. Students were able to dive right in, … Continue reading Day 36 // 5/11/2015 // Philadelphia → New York City
Off to Philadelphia, PA! Today Karel started in DC and headed towards Philly for another week of workshops! Make sure to stay following along on Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat! Continue reading Day 35 // 5/10/2015 // Washington D.C. → Philadelphia
Karel goes to the White House! Today in D.C. Karel the Dog stops by the White House! Continue reading Day 34 // 5/9/2015 // Washington D.C.
Today we visited the Gunston School for a great class visit! Today, we did a great classroom visit to the Gunston School in Centreville, Maryland. The Gunston School is teaching their first computer science class this year using CodeHS, and it has been a great success. Most of the students had never done any sort … Continue reading Day 33 // 5/8/2015 // Grasonville, Maryland → Washington. D.C
Today we kept on driving to Maryland! Today was another big driving day for Karel the Dog and the Pink #ReadWriteCode CodeHS van. We started in Roanoke, and continued all the way past Washington D.C. for our school visits over in Maryland! Continue reading Day 32 // 5/7/2015 // Roanoke, Virginia → Grasonville, Maryland
We met with KVEC and drove to Roanoke! Today, we started off in Hazard, Kentucky where we met with a group of educators who are looking to bring in computer science classes to their area. This is what we meet with schools and districts about every day, but I think there a few important points … Continue reading Day 31 // 5/6/2015 // Hazard, Kentucky → Roanoke, Virginia
Today we went to High Point Christian Academy for a classroom visit! Today we started in High Point, North Carolina. We were invited to visit High Point Christian Academy, where Paige Daniels teaches a computer science class with CodeHS. The class and school greeted us with a warm welcome. We spoke to some students over … Continue reading Day 30 // 5/5/2015 // High Point, North Carolina → Hazard, Kentucky
Today we ran a bunch of workshops at Cardinal Gibbons High School! Today was another busy day for CodeHS and Karel the Dog. We started in Raleigh, North Carolina, and went to Cardinal Gibbons High School. Jon Armfield at Cardinal Gibbons is using CodeHS to teach his programming class and is a huge fan. Discussing … Continue reading Day 29 // 5/4/2015 // Raleigh → High Point
We stopped by Duke on our way to Raleigh, North Carolina! On Sunday, Karel started in Charlotte. We drove through Duke at Durham, hit a bit of a traffic jam, and ended up in Raleigh for our next days of workshops. Continue reading Day 28 // 5/3/2015 // Charlotte → Raleigh
Today, we had to catch up on a lot of emails and walked around Charlotte! There were a lot of emails to catch up on for today, but we got a chance to walk around Charlotte with Karel the Dog. Got a pretty good view of some of those high rises downtown! Continue reading Day 27 // 5/2/2015 // Charlotte, North Carolina