Tag: code

• New Education Bill

  

  (Surprisingly) Congress passed a new education bill last week. Forget “No Child Left Behind” rolled to in 2001 and embrace “Every Student Succeeds Act“. So what are the changes? Testing will continue, but STATES – not the U.S. government – will now decide how to use the results in evaluating teachers and schools. The new law encourages…

  BriAlys

  December 2015

  Career, Children, Education, News, STEM, Tech

  act, child, code, computer, computerscience, congress, education, learn, obama, stem, succeed, tech, whitehouse, women

• Private Photo (Calculator%)

  Kids have tricked their parents for decades. From the classic “going to the library” with a friend response to “group outings” that are really double dates – some parents have learned all the tricks and are hip to these games! But it’s a new day. Kids are not just into old-school trickery, they are much…

  BriAlys

  September 2015

  Family, Social Media, Tech

  android, calculator, code, iOS, iPhone, Kids, photos, private, secret

• The Confidence Code

  

  I live for a non-fiction book recommendation! That’s exactly what I got this morning while planning a Women’s networking event with a co-worker. The book is called The Confidence Code, published in April of 2014 by Claire Shipman, a regular contributor to “Good Morning America” and Katty Kay, anchor for BBC World News America in Washington. “Confidence. We know…

  BriAlys

  February 2015

  Book/Magazine Reviews, Career, Read

  career, code, confidence, excel, females, women

• I Can Be a Computer Engineer

  

  Mattel recently released a dual Barbie book titled: I Can Be an Actress/I Can Be a Computer Engineer. Cool! There’s a national focus on Girls and STEM, so this can only be good, right? WRONG! One blogger sums it up this way: “Despite having ruined her own laptop, her sister’s laptop, and the library’s computers, not to mention…

  BriAlys

  November 2014

  Children, Education

  barbie, code, engineer, girls, stem

• Made with Code

  

  Google just launched an initiative, Made with Code, to get girls interested in computer programing. The tech giant has set aside $50 million for the program. “Made with Code will organize events where girls will be invited to do programming together and discover that computer programme codes can be used to make and print bracelets…

  BriAlys

  September 2014

  Children, Education, School, STEM, Tech

  code, girls, google, stem, tech