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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.

Alice

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Alice is an innovative block-based programming environment that makes it easy to create animations, build interactive narratives, or program simple games in 3D. Unlike many of the puzzle-based coding applications Alice motivates learning through creative exploration. Alice is designed to teach logical and computational thinking skills, fundamental principles of programming and to be a first exposure to object-oriented programming. The Alice Project provides supplemental tools and materials for teaching using Alice across a spectrum of ages and subject matter with proven benefits in engaging and retaining diverse and underserved groups in computer science education.

Alice is used by teachers at all levels from middle schools (and sometimes even younger) to universities, in school classrooms and in after school and out of school programming, and in subjects ranging from visual arts and language arts to the fundamentals of programming and introduction to java courses.

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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.

Meoweb: The Puzzle Coding Game

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Discover the most kitty-ful of coding games in the educational games universe and learn to code while completing platform game levels in an adventure that will help you learn basic programming!... Travel through coding games and platform game worlds in several puzzle levels and learn coding in a programming game made for cat lovers who also want to learn coding!

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