When our middle school started offering a robotics course to its students this year, it was a pretty big deal. I’d used a gamified coding platform in my previous district and figured it would be a ...

It’s one thing to sit in a computer science class all semester and learn about programming and problem-solving. But it’s quite another to find yourself knee-deep in creating an app designed to ...

With his computer plugged into a projector at the front of the room, Hudson Blankner, a freshman in Gabe Johnson’s Computational Foundations 1 class, displayed his final project: a trio of classic ...

Gamifying learning is all the rage these days, especially when it comes to ed-tech platforms. But the effect that approach has on learning can range significantly, experts say. Some products hook ...

Northwestern Computer Science leaders Samir Khuller and Sara Owsley Sood are no strangers to tidal shifts in their discipline’s technology. In June 2007, Sood graduated from Northwestern Engineering ...

In 2022, a ninth-grader from Redmond High School, Shrey Shah, with a clear path toward a career in computer science, noticed a gap in coding education within elementary and middle schools and a lack ...