Kids Code Mississippi co-founder, Randy Lynn, has written a new book to teach young students the basic concepts of coding through 45 skill-building games and activities.Read More

With support from Kids Code Mississippi, C Spire and the Mississippi State University Research and Curriculum Unit, Governor Phil Bryant proclaimed December 2018 as "Mississippi Computer Science Education Month."Read More

At the Mississippi Science Festival, hundreds of Mississippians, young and old alike, gathered to see science and technology demonstrations and exhibits at the four museums of the LeFleur Museum District. Kids Code Mississippi was a the event with three Raspberry Pi stations – one running Scratch, another Sonic Py (a Ruby-based application for writing music...Read More

The  Crossroads 2017 conference presented by Infosys Foundation USA was held May 23-25, 2017 in San Francisco. Kids Code Mississippi co-founder, Randy Lynn, was among three attendees from Mississippi at the conference. In this blog series, Randy relates his impressions of the conference as a first-time attendee:   Now in its third year, the Infosys Foundation USA Crossroads...Read More

I arrived in San Francisco following about seven hours of air travel, checked in to my hotel and made my way to the Moscone West convention center. After registering, I was warmly greeted by Infosys exec Kaustav Mitra and introduced to attendees from the Alabama and California departments of education and also Creighton University professor...Read More

The conference’s second day consisted of a full day of panel discussions from representatives of K-12 and higher education, non-profits and state governments. The sessions ran from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. with three sessions going on simultaneously during each block, making for some very tough decisions. Fortunately, the organizers recorded each session and will...Read More

The next session focused on makerspaces, a concept which is in its infancy in Mississippi, but seeing wider adoption in California and other technology-focused states. The session was moderated by Ken Montgomery, the executive director of Design Tech High School, a tech focused public school in the San Mateo Union school district of California within...Read More

Session 3: Decoding Diversity The third session I attended brought the issue of diversity to the forefront with a panel lineup moderated by Felix Flores of #YesWeCode. (Kids Code Mississippi partnered with #YesWeCode in 2015 to put on a hackathon for 100 minority students in Jackson in 2015.) Panelists included Antonio Tijerino, President and CEO...Read More