PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — For many of us, the only code we knew in high school got us into our lockers.
Now, many local students want to learn coding and robotics. Sewickley Academy heard the request and answered.
“In middle school, I was doing some programming alone. I was searching YouTube videos, Google searches on how to do it,” said Dov Abrahim Kanner, a freshman at Sewickley Academy.
He is now thrilled to be at a school that offers classes in his passion: anything with computers.
“I don’t know, it’s sort of like math. It makes sense when you do this and do that,” he said.
He is the prime example of why Head of School Ashley Birtwell switched things up, focusing on the tech of the future.
“I questioned, is there a student demand for it? So, I stepped into this role as head of school, I started asking students and there’s tremendous student interest for us to grow our…