(TNS) — Just six percent of high school students in the United States take computer science classes. The numbers are even lower for elementary and middle school.
But you’d never know that if you dropped by Long Island’s Mineola school district. Computer science learning is everywhere.
At the Hampton Street School, pre-kindergartners practiced beginner coding skills as they stumbled after bumble bee robots during a lesson in February, pressing a button one time for each step they wanted the machine to take. “This beebot won’t listen!” shouted one exasperated boy, still honing his counting skills.
At Mineola Middle School, which serves grades 5 to 7, students showed off their coding projects in computer science class, including a hide-and-seek digital game, in which players help a girl find her bunny and another where…
