{"id":853,"date":"2015-07-15T14:55:22","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T18:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/?p=853"},"modified":"2015-11-03T15:23:25","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T20:23:25","slug":"07_15_2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/07_15_2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Alert: St. Mary’s, Washington Families Tackle Mysteries of Computer Coding"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summer Learning Workshops Taking Place at Public Libraries<\/em><\/h3>\n

For Immediate Release \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Contact: Bill Reinhard, 410-767-0486<\/p>\n

Baltimore, MD<\/p>\n

Nascent student and parent computer scientists are gathering the next three Saturdays at the Leonardtown Branch of the St. Mary\u2019s County Library and the Alice Virginia and David W. Fletcher Branch of the Washington County Library.\u00a0 Their mission: to learn and create their own inventions using the latest computer technology.<\/p>\n

Family Coding Clubs, based on a successful program developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, are engaging children and their parents to learn together as designers and inventors. \u00a0The St. Mary\u2019s and Washington County sessions are the last planned in Maryland this summer.\u00a0 Other workshops have taken place in Baltimore, Caroline, and Cecil Counties.<\/p>\n

The sky is the limit for each student\/parent team involved in this state-of-the-art activity. \u00a0For example, teams may develop games and controllers, using such programs as Scratch and MaKey Makey.<\/p>\n

Maryland\u2019s Family Coding Clubs are a pilot program funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.\u00a0 MSDE\u2019s Division of Library Development and Services is partnering with Code in the Schools and FutureMakers to launch the program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
WHO:<\/strong><\/td>\nStudents, ages 6-12, and their Parents<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
WHAT:<\/strong><\/td>\nFamily Coding Clubs<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
WHEN:<\/strong><\/td>\n12 Noon to 3 p.m.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
AND<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
WHERE:\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\nJuly 18, 25 and August 1 (Registration Closed)<\/strong>
\nLeonardtown Branch of St. Mary\u2019s County Library
\n23250 Hollywood Rd., Leonardtown, MD\u00a0 20650
\n301-475-2846The Alice Virginia and David W. Fletcher Branch of the Washington County Library
\n100 South Potomac Street, Hagerstown, MD 21740
\n301-739.3250<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summer Learning Workshops Taking Place at Public Libraries
\nFor Immediate Release \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Contact: Bill Reinhard, 410-767-0486
\nBaltimore, MD
\nNascent student and parent computer scientists are gathering the next   …Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mediaalert","category-news","category-newsreleases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":855,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}