This week was Computer Science Education Week (December 9-15) and to celebrate schools were encouraged to do an Hour of Code. Grades 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 participated in this event. Grades 2, 3 and 5 learned how to code using the website Tynker.com and successfully taught either a dog or an astronaut to move through various tasks. Grade 6 learned how to program their NXT robots to speak and dance.

You can read more about this event and find links to free programming tutorials at Code.org or view a video about the event.

As of today, 11,184,720 students have done the Hour of Code and written 358,694,111 lines of code!