Hour of Code

This week we celebrate Computer Science Education Week at BMS. CSEdWeek is an annual program dedicated to showing students the importance of computer science in the 21st century. Over the next ten years there will be 1 million more jobs in computer science in the United States than students. These jobs collectively represent a 500 billion dollar opportunity for those who are prepared for them, and we don't want our students to be left out.

The centerpiece of CSEdWeek is the Hour of Code, a one hour introduction to computer programming designed to take the mystery out of the subject and demonstrate to students that anyone can learn to code. BMS students will be enjoying their Hour of Code through their math classes on Wednesday, writing code to draw pictures, to command virtual robots, even to help the Angry Birds beat those nasty green pigs. We hope that for many of our students this hour will be just the first of many spent learning and developing a fulfilling (and lucrative!) talent for writing code.

In anticipation of our Hour of Code during math classes tomorrow, please make sure that your child charges their Chromebook tonight!