{"id":6796,"date":"2018-01-29T15:12:56","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T20:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=6796"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:06:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:06:05","slug":"hour-of-code-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/01\/29\/hour-of-code-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Women in IT CoP helps make Hour of Code a success"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"metaslider-id-6840\" style=\"max-width: 600px; margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"ml-slider-3-109-0 metaslider metaslider-flex metaslider-6840 ml-slider has-dots-nav ms-theme-default\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Hour of Code 2017\" data-height=\"400\" data-width=\"600\">\n    <div id=\"metaslider_container_6840\">\n        <div id=\"metaslider_6840\" class=\"flexslider\">\n            <ul class='slides'>\n                <li style=\"display: block; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-6854 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2018-01-25 15:35:38\" data-filename=\"IMG_E0140-e1516911455988.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_E0140-e1516911455988.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"600\" alt=\"&quot; &quot;\" class=\"slider-6840 slide-6854 msDefaultImage\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">Amy Brooks (ITS) and Lawton Elementary students enjoy coding together. (Amy Brooks)<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-6855 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2018-01-25 15:35:38\" data-filename=\"IMG_1955crop-1.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_1955crop-1.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"600\" alt=\"&quot; &quot;\" class=\"slider-6840 slide-6855 msDefaultImage\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">Abbot Elementary 5th grade class participates in Hour of Code activities. (Christina Potema)<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-7025 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2018-01-31 13:53:07\" data-filename=\"hour-of-code-dicken-1-e1517424603536.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/hour-of-code-dicken-1-e1517424603536.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"600\" alt=\"rear view of two students wearing headsets, sitting at computers\" class=\"slider-6840 slide-7025 msDefaultImage\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">Students at Dicken Elementary work on Hour of Code assignments. (Alivia Maus)<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-6856 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2018-01-25 15:35:38\" data-filename=\"IMG_0142-e1516911648267.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_0142-e1516911648267.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"600\" alt=\"Amy kneeling next to students at computer desks.\" class=\"slider-6840 slide-6856 msDefaultImage\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">Amy Brooks (ITS) at Lawton Elementary for an Hour of Code with students. (Amy Brooks)<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-7024 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2018-01-31 13:53:07\" data-filename=\"hour-of-code-dicken-2-e1517424711666-599x399.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/hour-of-code-dicken-2-e1517424711666-599x399.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"600\" alt=\"&quot; &quot;\" class=\"slider-6840 slide-7024 msDefaultImage\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">Students at Dicken Elementary hard at work during Hour of Code. (Alivia Maus)<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-6841 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2018-01-25 15:05:22\" data-filename=\"hour-of-code-2017-2-e1516655809545-600x400.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/hour-of-code-2017-2-e1516655809545-600x400.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"600\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-6840 slide-6841 msDefaultImage\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">(l-r) Nathan Moger, Lawton Elementary; Kelly Doonan-Reed, ITS; Lily Lee, Thomson Reuters; Merri Lynn Colligan, Ann Arbor Public Schools. (Allan Lee)<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-6842 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2018-01-25 15:05:23\" data-filename=\"hour-of-code-2017-1-e1516655897765.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/hour-of-code-2017-1-e1516655897765.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"600\" alt=\"&quot; &quot;\" class=\"slider-6840 slide-6842 msDefaultImage\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">(l-r) Kelly Doonan-Reed, ITS; Samantha Danzinger, Bach Elementary; Lily Lee, Thomson Reuters; Carolyn Hill, Bach Elementary; Merri Lynn Colligan, Ann Arbor Public Schools. (Allan Lee)<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n            <\/ul>\n        <\/div>\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Because of the exceptional efforts of the Women in IT Community of Practice, the University of Michigan, and Thomson Reuters, elementary school students in Ann Arbor Public Schools got an introduction to coding during the 2017 Hour of Code event,\u00a0November 27\u2013December 8.<\/p>\n<p>The result of their combined work:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>80 volunteers signed up to support<\/li>\n<li>72 volunteers assigned to classrooms<\/li>\n<li>111 class sessions of Hour of Code reached over 2,700 elementary students<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The top three schools with the most participation by student population each received a plaque made by Huron High School Project Lead the Way students and several Sphero mini robots to continue practicing their coding. The winners were: Angell Elementary, Bach Elementary, and Lawton Elementary.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2017\/10\/30\/hour-of-code\/\">Women in IT CoP spearheaded U-M&#8217;s participation<\/a> and recruited partners from LSA Information Technology, the College of\u00a0Engineering, Girls Encoded, and more. The efforts of our members to\u00a0have other campus units and organizations support the event enabled us to have students, staff, and faculty volunteers in classrooms all over Ann Arbor.<\/p>\n<div class=\"omsc-box omsc-with-bg-color omsc-with-icon omsc-icon-style-border omsc-icon-shape-circle\" style=\"border-color:#000000;background-color:#eff0f1;text-align:left\"><div class=\"omsc-box-icon-wrapper\"><div class=\"omsc-box-icon\" style=\"border-color:#eff0f1;color:#eff0f1;border-color:#000000;color:#000000;\"><i class=\"fa fa-info\"><\/i><\/div><\/div><div class=\"omsc-box-inner\"><\/p>\n<p>Code.org\u00ae is a non-profit dedicated to expanding access to computer science and increasing participation by women and underrepresented minorities. Code.org organizes the annual Hour of Code campaign, which has engaged 10% of all students in the world and provides the leading curriculum for K-12 computer science in the largest school districts in the United States. Please consider joining us next year!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For information on facilitating your own Hour of Code session, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/code.org\">code.org<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/a\/umich.edu\/women-in-it-cop\/\">Women in IT Cop site<\/a>,\u00a0and join our <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/communities\/106029055167038882649\">G+ community<\/a>\u00a0or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups\/12046237\">LinkedIn group<\/a> for more information. Contact us at via email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:WiTCoP-CommunityOutreach@umich.edu\">WiTCoP-CommunityOutreach@umich.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5316\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hour-of-code-logo.png\" alt=\"Hour of Code\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hour-of-code-logo.png 300w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hour-of-code-logo-125x88.png 125w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hour-of-code-logo-286x200.png 286w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hour-of-code-logo-200x140.png 200w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hour-of-code-logo-60x42.png 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because of the exceptional efforts of the Women in IT Community of Practice, the University of Michigan, and Thomson Reuters, elementary school students in Ann Arbor Public Schools got an introduction to coding during the 2017 Hour of Code event,\u00a0November 27\u2013December 8. The result of their combined work: 80 volunteers signed up to support 72 volunteers assigned to\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/01\/29\/hour-of-code-2\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":6845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18,188],"class_list":["post-6796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-professional-development","tag-community-service","tag-people"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_E0140-e1516911455988.jpg",600,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_E0140-e1516911438451-125x83.jpg",125,83,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_E0140-e1516911438451-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_E0140-e1516911438451-768x512.jpg",665,443,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_E0140-e1516911438451-700x467.jpg",600,400,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_E0140-e1516911455988.jpg",600,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_E0140-e1516911455988.jpg",600,400,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_E0140-e1516911438451-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_E0140-e1516911438451-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_E0140-e1516911438451-658x300.jpg",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_E0140-e1516911438451-665x443.jpg",665,443,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_E0140-e1516911455988.jpg",375,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Kelly Doonan-Reed, School of Nursing","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/kellydr\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Because of the exceptional efforts of the Women in IT Community of Practice, the University of Michigan, and Thomson Reuters, elementary school students in Ann Arbor Public Schools got an introduction to coding during the 2017 Hour of Code event,\u00a0November 27\u2013December 8. 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