Hour of Code Opens Computer Science World to Students

SEELEY LAKE - This past week many students and teachers at Seeley Lake Elementary (SLE) were decorated with stickers that read: Hour of Code. SLE Technology teacher Michele Holmes had all of her students participating in the national program entitled Hour of Code during Computer Science Education Week, Dec. 7-13. It is a global movement with more than 100 million learners in 196 countries with the goal of introducing students to computer science, designed to demystify code and show that anybody can learn the basics.

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