Today we visited Westwood High School outside of Austin, and headed to Houston then New Orleans! Today we visited Westwood High School outside of Austin, Texas. Westwood High School has one of the most developed computer science programs we’ve seen all over the country, and they have 10 sections of AP Computer Science and 6 … Continue reading Day 12 // 4/17/2015 // Austin -> New Orleans
In New Orleans! Saturday, Karel was in New Orleans, with a big week ahead! Continue reading Day 13 // 4/18/2015 // New Orleans
We ran a workshop at a middle school in Albuquerque and then headed all the way to Austin! We started off the day by visiting a the Public Academy for Performing Arts in Albuquerque, New Mexico. We were invited in to do a workshop at a middle school film class. So it wasn’t our standard … Continue reading Day 11 // 4/16/2015 // Albuquerque -> Austin
We met with Sonoran Schools in Phoenix and did the drive to Albuquerque! We started off with a meeting with a teacher and curriculum director at Sonoran Schools. They have programming classes across several levels and use CodeHS in some of their classrooms. They are looking for ways to improve their computer science classes. Next … Continue reading Day 10 // 4/15/2015 // Phoenix -> Albuquerque
We met with San Diego School District ran a workshop at Olympian High School, and drove to Phoenix! Today was another busy day on Karel’s USA road trip. We started off meeting at the San Diego Unified school district. We spoke with some administrators about their computer science curriculum and the direction they hope it … Continue reading Day 9 // 4/14/2015 // San Diego -> Phoenix
Today we did a classroom visit at Lincoln Middle School and ran a workshop at Alta Vista High School! 6am wakeup in La Jolla (pronounced La- Hoya). Then we headed to visit Lincoln Middle School, who uses CodeHS to lead a year long advanced programming course with CodeHS. As we walked in the students were … Continue reading Day 8 // 4/13/2015 // San Diego
We started in LA and made our way to San Diego where we had a great meetup with some CodeHS tutors! Today, Karel said goodbye to LA schools and traffic and continued down towards sunny San Diego. After a quick stop for an ocean view, Karel got to meet up with a number of CodeHS … Continue reading Day 7 // 4/12/2015 // Los Angeles -> San Diego
We can visit schools to run workshops for students, for teachers, meet with principals, district admins, school boards, and present to assemblies! We’ve had almost 1,000 school visit requests on the CodeHS Road Trip which we are very excited about. Many people have asked what types of visits we can do, so I’m going to … Continue reading The CodeHS Road Trip — What types of visits do we do?
Today Karel got to do a tour of some great Los Angeles Sites! It might be a Saturday, but Karel the Dog still made sure to hit some of the key Los Angeles sites. Karel started at the Venice Boardwalk, headed to the Santa Monica Pier, then went over to Hollywood to see the Walk … Continue reading Day 6 // 4/11/2015 // Los Angeles
Today we ran lots of workshops at Bell High School and Ouchi-O’Donovan School, as well as met at Riot Games! Our Snapchat story for Day 5: Follow us live on Snapchat at CodeHS Today we started bright and early at 6am to get to Bell High School for our first coding workshops. At Bell High … Continue reading Day 5 // 4/10/2015 // Los Angeles