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February 6, 2014 07:18 am GMT
A couple days a week, 25-year-old Brian Clark (pictured above to the left) takes the Muni’s T line in from Bayview, where he lives in a house full of other founders through the NewMe Accelerator program. Yes, he’s a pretty recent computer science graduate from University of Michigan. Yes, he’s new to San Francisco and just moved here six months ago from Detroit. Yes, he’s tinkering around with startup ideas and he moonlights at hackathons for rent money. No, he’s not some entitled techie douchebag. He takes the train in several days a week because he teaches free after-school classes on web development and programming to students across San Francisco’s public schools. Even though he jokes every once in awhile about how broke he is, Clark has spent hours designing and developing curriculum for the new San Francisco non-profit running these classes, MissionBit. Last semester, MissionBit’s students made a Nazi Zombies vs. Robot Dinosaurs game, a chat client and another program that visualized audio tracks through Philip Hue lights. About 90 percent of them had never written a line of code before they started. MissionBit brings in developers from the industry to teach pro-bono classes and they’ll have 70 middle and high school students this semester.Only five of the 17 high schools in the San Francisco Unified School District offer computer science classes, meaning that students are missing out on learning highly employable skills in web development despite living in the global capital of the technology industry. “Initially, I was just frustrated with public school education and I was looking for a way to give back and put energy into improving it,” said MissionBit’s founder Tyson Daugherty. Last August, Daugherty partnered with another San Francisco non-profit called Out of Site that already had a relationship with the school district to offer free after-school arts classes.In their first semester last fall, they started with a beginning programming class for 15 students. Demand was so overwhelming that they ended up with 25 kids on the wait list. This semester (their second one), MissionBit has more volunteer instructors than it can handle. “The amount of good willthat is being demonstrated from these awesome technologists and some very high-powered people is pretty inspiring,” Daugherty said. In a class I ended yesterday, there was one instructor for every two students. “Why are we here?” asked Matt Wescott, the lead instructor for that day. “To learn,”
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MissionBits Volunteer Hackers Close The Computer Science Education Gap In SFs Schools
A couple days a week, 25-year-old Brian Clark (pictured above to the left) takes the Muni’s T line in from Bayview, where he lives in a house full of other founders through the NewMe Accelerator program. Yes, he’s a pretty recent computer science graduate from University of Michigan. Yes, he’s new to San Francisco and just moved here six months ago from Detroit. Yes, he’s tinkering around with startup ideas and he moonlights at hackathons for rent money. No, he’s not some entitled techie douchebag. He takes the train in several days a week because he teaches free after-school classes on web development and programming to students across San Francisco’s public schools. Even though he jokes every once in awhile about how broke he is, Clark has spent hours designing and developing curriculum for the new San Francisco non-profit running these classes, MissionBit. Last semester, MissionBit’s students made a Nazi Zombies vs. Robot Dinosaurs game, a chat client and another program that visualized audio tracks through Philip Hue lights. About 90 percent of them had never written a line of code before they started. MissionBit brings in developers from the industry to teach pro-bono classes and they’ll have 70 middle and high school students this semester.Only five of the 17 high schools in the San Francisco Unified School District offer computer science classes, meaning that students are missing out on learning highly employable skills in web development despite living in the global capital of the technology industry. “Initially, I was just frustrated with public school education and I was looking for a way to give back and put energy into improving it,” said MissionBit’s founder Tyson Daugherty. Last August, Daugherty partnered with another San Francisco non-profit called Out of Site that already had a relationship with the school district to offer free after-school arts classes.In their first semester last fall, they started with a beginning programming class for 15 students. Demand was so overwhelming that they ended up with 25 kids on the wait list. This semester (their second one), MissionBit has more volunteer instructors than it can handle. “The amount of good willthat is being demonstrated from these awesome technologists and some very high-powered people is pretty inspiring,” Daugherty said. In a class I ended yesterday, there was one instructor for every two students. “Why are we here?” asked Matt Wescott, the lead instructor for that day. “To learn,”Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/XXnk6eeDPq8/
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