Cool Hand Barry

President Obama just became the first sitting president to travel from the White House to the big house and visit a federal prison…

Making Computer Science Sticky

“Sticky” is much more than “fun”.

Planning a Tech Company Tour

Do’s and don’t’s for planning your company’s next tour for K-12 students

I’ve taken students on too many tech company tours to count. Some much better than others. Here’s what I’ve learned.

Why there shouldn’t be grades

A recent conversation with a former student, reminiscing about high school.

Lessons Learned from Teaching After School

After school programs are lucky.

They get to have fun with kids and maybe add in a little bit of learning. They’re the fun parent and classroom teachers are the boring parent.

Computer Science

The lack of diversity in Computer Science

This summer in our Computer Science class we learned how to use a program called snap. This program was basically a step up from Scratch. We all wished to have learned to use something new but we didn’t. Using this program we…