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Class'Code Wins 2017 Best Practices in Education Award
Credit: Informatics Europe
Researchers at Nantes University in France have won the Informatics Europe 2017 Best Practices in Education Award for their Class'Code project, an open training solution for members of the French educational and informatics communities. The project is designed to train educators working with children ages eight to 14 in basic programming and computer science, including creative programming, information coding, familiarization with networks, fun robotics, and the related impacts of technology in society.
Class'Code helps introduce young people to the concept of algorithms and computational thinking, enabling them to understand the digital world from an early age. The researchers want Class'Code to provide answers that "live up to our expectation and that our choices will allow the project to help France reach its ambitious goals in other contexts, countries, or topics," the award winners said.
Since its launch in September 2016, the Class'Code project has reached 15,000 subscribers, and about 3,200 students have attended meetings set up by more than 40 institutions across France.
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