Mentor at the new Sumner Code Club

Please consider mentoring at the new Sumner Code Club, held in the beautiful Sumner Library just northwest of downtown Minneapolis.  Inspire Northside girls and boys (ages 9 to 14) to explore coding using Scratch -- a fun and powerful language for creating and sharing your own games, animations and stories. 

Experienced Scratch mentors -- or mentors eager to explore Scratch -- are all welcome. 

We're starting out with 3 sessions on Monday evenings from 4 to 6 pm -- March 31, April 7 and April 14.   

Please REGISTER HERE to mentor at one or all of these events and enjoy introducing a Northside child to the delights of coding.

Thank you for helping inspire a diverse new code-savvy generation. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. And please spread the word.  

Thank you,

Rebecca Schatz
rebecca@codesavvy.org

CSA and CodeSavvy.org

CSA began discussing the 'connection initiative'"how tos" with an expert, Rebecca Schatz, founder of the celebrated 'The Works', CodeSavvy.org and CS&E Department's 2013 Distinguished Alumni.  Rebecca's real world experiences and the hard lessons learned in building and running 'The Works' has provided her with an invaluable storehouse of foundational knowledge and years of experiences on the successful ways to start-up, market, nurture and operate an outreach program.

Rebecca's thrilled to have CSA on board and the timing is right!  She points out that the 'general public' is more attuned to the needs and pleas of better science and math educational opportunities  and specifically getting more young girls involved.  Youngsters and teens are eager to learn about computers and robots and rockets and smartphones and apps and the how-tos of building and creating. And yet, there's a shortage of 'qualified' mentors and coaches to leverage this great opportunity to connect and inspire.

There was 'an obvious match' between our respective organizations. CodeSavvy needs mentors for the kids who are participating in its programs, and CSA has some adult professionals who could find a way to commit a few hours exploring and coaching kids learning technology.

Join with us. We have plenty of openings and lots of opportunities. Check out all that is available and all that is coming up.