In 2022, a ninth-grader from Redmond High School, Shrey Shah, with a clear path toward a career in computer science, noticed a gap in coding education within elementary and middle schools and a lack ...

To fill the hiring needs of the tech and cybersecurity industries, advocates say train people younger! The volunteer-run CoderDojo Denver is doing just that with free sessions for children ages 7 to ...

The world is much different than when we were growing up. Teaching coding to kids was something very few people thought about ...

Apple is offering free coding classes for students at Apple Stores around the world starting in December. The tech giant has been offering the “Hour of Code” sessions annually for the last six years, ...

Coding is a big deal right now. Worldwide, 36 million kids have taken part in “Hour of code” activities, helping them become active, rather than passive users of technology and starting learning that ...

Apple has partnered with Tynker, a San Francisco-based STEM education platform, to release two new game-based programming lessons aimed to help kids learn how to code. The new Space Cadet and Dragon ...

Coding is as essential to our kids' education as math and history lessons, with tech leaders, presidents and coding organizations touting the importance of the skill. Learning how to create the stuff ...

My five- and seven-year-old constantly fight over who gets the iPad first. We have one, and they get to use it in tiny doses, usually when I'm at my wit's end. Their favorite app? ScratchJr, MIT's ...

When Samaira Mehta was six years old, her father played a prank on her. 'He showed me basically something on his computer which had one button and a command which said, ‘Press this if you're beautiful ...

Fifteen years ago, I started this column with the advice that "computers are not a passing fad -- they are here to stay." In this, my last column as USA Today's Kid-Tech Columnist, my advice is: teach ...