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Khan Academy: Khan Academy and BELL team up to help kids code
Guest post from Michael Sikora, Director of Communications at BELL (Building Educated Leaders for Life) “Pick two: Sculpture, Drawing, Team Sports, Coding, Improv Comedy, Drama, Film Appreciation.”When the time came for Paolo to select the enrichment activities he wanted to participate in this summer, the opportunity to take a coding class jumped out at him.“I didn’t really know anything about coding before this summer,” said Paolo. “But I wanted to try it out because I wanted to know how people made video games.”Along with his peers at Davidson Middle School in San Rafael, California, Paolo learned some of the basics of computer programming as part of his summer learning experience thanks to a collaboration between BELL (Building Educated Leaders for Life) and Khan Academy. This was the first summer that students – or, “scholars” as they are recognized in BELL’s programs – encountered Khan Academy’s fr…