Austintown schools take part in code week

Austintown Intermediate and Austintown Elementary Schools recently announced that they are joining in on the largest education event in history, The Hour of Code. During computer science education week Dec. 9-15, every student from kindergarten through fifth-grade will spend one hour learning computer science and doing online tutorials featuring Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Angry Birds.

The Hour of Code is a campaign to prove that regardless of age, race or gender, anyone can learn how to consume and build the technologies of the future.

Austintown students are among over 2 million already planning to try one Hour of Code during computer science education week worldwide.

This movement, organized by Code.org and supported by Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Boys & Girls Clubs of America and more than 100 others, is a statement that today’s generation of students are ready to learn critical skills for 21st century success. Currently, almost 90 percent of American schools don’t teach computer science and fewer students are learning how computers work than a decade ago. Girls and minorities are underrepresented in the field.