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Project STEM

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Find pre-coding early learning resources, family engagement resources, and real-world career connections to allow students and their families discover the jobs of the future.

Build foundations in computer science from the youngest grades with our Early CS programs. Project STEM helps educators and families build engaging, early, and persistent computer science at home or in the early childhood classroom. 

Project STEM helps spark interest and learning from the earliest ages and stages through hands-on activities that let children explore, create and discover by doing. Explore resources aimed at PK-1+ grade levels that can help make connections for all ages and stages that will inspire, engage and support your child at home or in the classroom.

CoSpaces Edu

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Adaptable to any age or subject, CoSpaces Edu lets kids build their own 3D creations, animate them with code and explore them in Virtual or Augmented Reality.

Creating with CoSpaces Edu develops digital literacy and 21st Century learning skills such as collaboration and coding, which prepare kids for their future while empowering them to become creators.

There are free (Basic) and paid (Pro) plans available. 

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Compatible with: Mobile VR; Samsung Gear VR; Google Daydream; Oculus Go; ClassVR.

Minecraft Education Edition: Computer Science Kit

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Minecraft: Education Edition offers 200 hours of Computer Science content for all levels and abilities of learners, supported by a range of training material for educators. Coding and computer science education has never been so much fun!​ Browse lessons for beginners and advanced students, explore online training for educators, and integrate Computer Science across the curriculum.​

Minecraft Education is a game-based platform that inspires creative, inclusive learning through play. Explore blocky worlds that unlock new ways to take on any subject or challenge.

Kodu Game Lab

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Kodu Game Lab is a 3D game development environment that is designed to teach kids basic programming principles. Kodu allows creators to build the world's terrain, populate it with characters and props, and then program their behaviors and games rules in a bespoke visual programming language. Kodu originated as a project in Microsoft Research.

Kodu lets kids create games on Windows PCs via a simple visual programming language. Kodu can be used to teach creativity, problem solving, storytelling, as well as programming. Anyone can use Kodu to make a game, young children as well as adults with no design or programming skills.

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Supported Operating Systems: Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows XP.

A graphics card that supports DirectX 9.0c and Shader Model 2.0 or higher is required. .NET Framework 4.0 or higher is required. XNA Framework 4.0 Redistributable is required. The XNA redist is included in the .EXE version of the installer.

Nancy Drew Codes and Clues Mystery Coding Game

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Kids will learn basic coding, reading and critical thinking skills as they find clues and code their robot puppy in this fun story-based hidden object mystery game!

WHY PLAY THIS MYSTERY CODING GAME?

Essential skills for children are reading, writing, math and now coding. Today everything related to technology requires some type of code. So sparking an interest in coding, especially for girls, at an early age is important. Nancy Drew Codes and Clues sparks this interest through a fun and engaging story. The mystery adventure story also builds critical thinking and reading skills as kids read along with story dialogue. Nancy Drew is not a complicated app. Parents or kids DO NOT need to have any prior knowledge of programming. It’s just full of fun education, music and coding!

Throughout the game players develop and use their growing de-TECH-tive skills. Players find clues in hidden object games and apply basic coding concepts to code their puppy and help Nancy out of tight spots at the end of every chapter.

LEARN

Girls will have fun learning two of the three basic logic structures in the computer programming educational process:

  • Sequences
  • Loops

DEVELOP

Super De-TECH-Tives will develop critical thinking skills:

  • Pattern recognition
  • Spatial visualization
  • Problem solving
  • Algorithmic thinking
  • Attention to detail

Try the first chapter for free, then unlock the entire game with a one-time in-app purchase for unlimited play. 

Other Requirements
iPhone: Requires iOS 7.0 or later.
iPad: Requires iPadOS 7.0 or later.
iPod touch: Requires iOS 7.0 or later.
Mac: Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.

Run Marco!

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Play an adventure game and have fun while learning to code i.e. program computers. Use visual instructions to guide Marco or Sophia through a series of levels as they try to discover themselves. In this journey you will learn how to think as a software developer one step at a time! Instructions are in the form of the standard visual programming language "Blockly", which is the same used by the official Hour of Code tutorials. Designed for 6 to 12 y.o. kids by a team of experts in engineering, arts and education. 

Supported Languages: English, Greek, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Italian, Estonian, German, Turkish, Romanian, Spanish, Catalan, Lithuanian, Czech, Danish, Croatian, Icelandic, Slovenian, Norwegian, Croatian, Danish, Polish, Swedish, Finnish, Hungarian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Brazilian

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