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"Built for educators, Tynker Scholastic offers lesson plans, interactive tutorials, and class management tools."

Dot Diva's mission is to create an exciting and positive image of computing for high school girls. Our nationwide survey revealed that not only do the majority of girls think of computing as "boring" and "hard," but they believe it fails to deliver two crucial benefits: "working with others" and "making a difference in other people's lives." Our ultimate goal is to transform this negative perception.

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"Google released a major new education program today that organizes and manages the way teachers push apps, books, and other learning content to student tablets."

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Thanks for sharing this Tony. Looks very interesting - Python reminds me of Microworlds. Might look into running a lunchtime programming club for grades 5-6. Although still trying to get a Minecraft Club started! - unfortunately my school techs don't know Minecraft and although it has been on their 'to do' list from last year limited time makes it really hard for them to get it up. :-( Cheers - Chris Trimnell

"This was a bit of a surprise. Climbing ;everyone does it) up the roof of the Oslo Opera House on Norway the cladding is this interesting pattern but some of you will know exactly what the pattern is cos you punched and programmed those paper tapes in the very early days of computing. Me too' "

Fascinating to see this image recorded on the roof of the Oslo Opera house. I have some punched cards at school (amongst a collection of really odd IT museum pieces) and it made me wonder what others might have?

CLAT (Common Law Admission Test) is a test for high school (class XII) passed students in order to pursue a career in legal services. It grips the Law Entrance Exam ticket for the candidates who sight the significance and the enormous increase in demand for economical legal brains in the nation.

"NCWIT works to correct the imbalance of gender diversity in technology and computing because gender diversity positively correlates with a larger workforce, better innovation, and increased business performance. Increasing the number of women in technology and computing also has the potential to improve the design of products and services to better serve a more diverse population, and increase economic and social well-being by providing more women with stable and lucrative careers."

Each week we will place a new post accessible through the tab on the top of the page labelled 'further instructions', which will give a little run down of the week's activity.

"The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a UK registered charity (Registration Number 1129409) which exists to promote the study of computer science and related topics, especially at school level, and to put the fun back into learning computing. We plan to develop, manufacture and distribute an ultra-low-cost computer, for use in teaching computer programming to children. We expect this computer to have many other applications both in the developed and the developing world."