SHPE Cincinnati was very proud to support the Cincinnati Regional Kick-off of Hour of Code (Dec. 7, 2015)

Computers are everywhere, but fewer schools teach computer science than 10 years ago. Girls and minorities are severely underrepresented. Good news is, we’re on our way to change this. 

In one week last year, close to 80 million people tried computer science! Computer science was on homepages of Google, MSN, Yahoo! and Disney. President Obama, Malala, and other celebrities kicked off the Hour of Code with videos. Over 100 partners came together to support this movement. 

This year The Hour of Code movement is aiming for 100 million students. 

Taft Information Technology High School organized on Dec. 7, 2015 at the Cincinnati Regional Kickoff for this largest learning event in history.  Organized by the nonprofit http://www.Code.org and over 100 others, the event is a statement that today’s generation of students are ready to learn critical skills for 21st century success. 

The Cincinnati event was presented by the UC School of Information Technology andCincinnati Bell, both  of which have been on the forefront of promoting Information Technology to schools, and are instrumental in transforming the Taft High School into an "Information Technology" High School!

The goal of the event was to bring together organizations, companies, teachers, as well as children from local schools and their parents, to make them aware of IT opportunities in the global world, and to promote IT Education in Cincinnati.

SHPE Cincinnati proudly supports the "Code for Kids" Initiative at Hays-Porter Elementary School:

As the first school in the Greater Cincinnati region, Hays-Porter Elementary School started today at 8am the official week of "Hour of Code": Dec. 7-13, 2015 

According to School Principal, Ms. McClain, during that week all students in the school will participate in this first ever school-wide "Hour of Code" training. 

Several of Hays-Porter students, who participated in After-School computer classes organized by Families Forwards , have been also invited by the Museum Center to be coaches for their "Hour of Code" outreach.

They will also be acting as coaches at the Regional Kickoff for "Hour of Code", taking place tonight at Taft Information Technology High School, 6pm-9pm. 

SHPE Cincinnati was participating at the recent Hispanic Students Event at University of Cincinnati. 

It was also a great opportunity to welcome members of the SHPE Student Chapter being formed at University of Cincinnati. Demetri Bardis, a freshman at the UC College of Engineering, did a fantastic job in organizing this new chapter, and we would like to congratulate him on this. 

More pictures from this event are in our Photo Gallery

On August 29, 2015, SHPE Cincinnati organized a Field Trip to Cincinnati Mini Maker Faire for  students from AMIS (Academy of Multilingual Immersion Studies). 

After that we're taking the kids to the Bengals Game against the Chicago Bears!

A Big "Thank you" to our friends at Hispanic Chamber Cincinnati USA for their ongoing support of our Education efforts!

More pictures from the event are in our Photo Gallery

Celebrating National Robotics Week: April 4-12

Today we had a public viewing at AMIS (Academy of Multilingual Immersion Studies) of "Underwater Dreams" - a movie about a team of Hispanic high school students competing in underwater robots competition and beating MIT students for the 1st place!

This event was sponsored by SHPE Cincinnati (http://www.shpecincinnati.org)