Taking It To the Streets

From KQED -

Teaching Computer Programming Through Making in Oakland’s Fruitvale
By Queena Sook Kim

Making computer programming a part of the K-13 curriculum is becoming a rallying call in the United States. But just because you teach a subject doesn’t mean you get kids interested in it. So the real challenge is how to get kids, who might not necessarily be into computers, to pursue a career in coding?

Google and MIT’s Media Lab are trying to answer that question at Code Next,  an after-school program located in the Fruitvale neighborhood of Oakland. Coding programs put on by tech companies are often in a Google office or held at a local school. But Code Next is a storefront space in a shopping center next to the Fruitvale BART Station. The idea is to capture high school students from this working-class neighborhood.

https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/12/21/teaching-computer-programing-through-making-in-oaklands-fruitvale/