Some news from our friends at code.org Attached Regards G ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Hadi Partovi, Code.org" <hadi_part...@code.org> Date: Dec 11, 2013 5:57 PM Subject: The Hour of Code is here! To: "Gaurav Narain Saxena" <gsvo...@gmail.com> Cc:
* With support from Obama to Shakira, Apple to Zuckerberg, the Hour of Code is Here* It’s not every day you get to launch a campaign kicked off by the President, with Google replacing its logo in support<http://postoffice.code.org/l/YD763JJ4fz1IA21FZF5Bvc3A/plHYcivPjaHMzm8ZI2fMRA/NoS9h7639iUQjdqiYhFD3RnA>, with a workshop in every Apple retail store in America<http://postoffice.code.org/l/YD763JJ4fz1IA21FZF5Bvc3A/GErH9UUfr1F0oVuthu5Jcg/NoS9h7639iUQjdqiYhFD3RnA>, with support from Ashton Kutcher to Shakira to Chris Bosh. It turns out computer science is a lot more mainstream than people think. On Monday, I was humbled and excited to launch Computer Science Education Week 2013, and welcome 5 million students in 35,000 schools across 167 countries to their first Hour of Code. As of today, 7.6 million students<http://postoffice.code.org/l/YD763JJ4fz1IA21FZF5Bvc3A/csZaFtaol8n3763UIW1eBlhg/NoS9h7639iUQjdqiYhFD3RnA>have already done an Hour of Code, together writing over 240 million lines of code! * Have you seen the Hour of Code **video*<http://postoffice.code.org/l/YD763JJ4fz1IA21FZF5Bvc3A/a682ouk892EsNh763DaAHftY1g/NoS9h7639iUQjdqiYhFD3RnA>* (2min). Watch it. Spread it across the country.* <http://postoffice.code.org/l/YD763JJ4fz1IA21FZF5Bvc3A/a682ouk892EsNh763DaAHftY1g/NoS9h7639iUQjdqiYhFD3RnA> * Kick-off speeches by President Barack Obama and Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor* <http://postoffice.code.org/l/YD763JJ4fz1IA21FZF5Bvc3A/Ej5HYFAuer5bu9ZRbRU2UQ/NoS9h7639iUQjdqiYhFD3RnA> <http://postoffice.code.org/l/YD763JJ4fz1IA21FZF5Bvc3A/ylZfWZjphWHu7cuH7BTxvQ/NoS9h7639iUQjdqiYhFD3RnA><http://postoffice.code.org/l/YD763JJ4fz1IA21FZF5Bvc3A/ylZfWZjphWHu7cuH7BTxvQ/NoS9h7639iUQjdqiYhFD3RnA> Leaders from across the political spectrum have stepped forward to ask students everywhere to learn computer programming. This is literally the one idea that 100% of politicians agree on. See: Newt Gingrich<http://postoffice.code.org/l/YD763JJ4fz1IA21FZF5Bvc3A/RyWiQkytzJghjJphUTSoaQ/NoS9h7639iUQjdqiYhFD3RnA>, Senator Cory Booker<http://postoffice.code.org/l/YD763JJ4fz1IA21FZF5Bvc3A/pUm4mjS763zdkuWKT8HpJXmg/NoS9h7639iUQjdqiYhFD3RnA>, and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan<http://postoffice.code.org/l/YD763JJ4fz1IA21FZF5Bvc3A/PHofF8znE0O9IrQweIbK3g/NoS9h7639iUQjdqiYhFD3RnA>. *Tutorials*<http://postoffice.code.org/l/YD763JJ4fz1IA21FZF5Bvc3A/8I892lVRStAYBjvd0q2wj5CA/NoS9h7639iUQjdqiYhFD3RnA>* for ALL ages and in 20 languages, featuring Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates:* <http://postoffice.code.org/l/YD763JJ4fz1IA21FZF5Bvc3A/8I892lVRStAYBjvd0q2wj5CA/NoS9h7639iUQjdqiYhFD3RnA> To learn more about Apple’s Hour of Code Workshops, visit www.apple/retail<http://postoffice.code.org/l/YD763JJ4fz1IA21FZF5Bvc3A/GErH9UUfr1F0oVuthu5Jcg/NoS9h7639iUQjdqiYhFD3RnA>. Microsoft Retail Stores will host an Hour of Code at all 51 U.S. stores throughout the week. * On the home pages of Google, Apple, Yahoo!, MSN, and more *This week you’ll see computer science on the home pages of Google, Yahoo!, YouTube, MSN, Bing and Disney, and many others will promote it online or in email. We’ve had *unprecedented* support – not only from CEOs, celebrities, and world leaders, but from teachers, parents, and students, in the thousands and millions, to spread a simple idea: that *computer science should be accessible to every 21st century student.* Although we’ve barely slept, organizing the Hour of Code over the last 5 months has been the most fulfilling thing I’ve ever done, and I'd feel lucky to be able to thank you all for your support. Whether you’re 6 or 106, start learning today<http://postoffice.code.org/l/YD763JJ4fz1IA21FZF5Bvc3A/hhYnWll7639vAWr039ERvglA/NoS9h7639iUQjdqiYhFD3RnA>! Hadi Partovi Code.org P.S. Help us reach 10 million students, and *1 billion lines of code*. Give it to the people. Spread it across the country. unsubscribe<http://postoffice.code.org/unsubscribe/AdiAQKdctf763FKY892V4i5KhKFvj8763eF5dL5lSw3EEPe3A/Iea892yMqFeOCIupgPqcfRuA/NoS9h7639iUQjdqiYhFD3RnA>
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