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Family Code Night

Join millions of classrooms around the world December 5 - 11 as they celebrate and highlight an hour of code in the classroom. To find out more go to the Hour of Code website at h ttps://hourofcode.com/us There are a lot of free resources across multiple grade levels as well on the code.org website. Last year, in many of our schools, the Hour of Code was worked into students computer lab specials rotation but I have also seen it worked into science lab times, as well as during math blocks. Recently I found out about a website dedicated to helping schools host a Family Code Night . You can sign up for a free family code night event kit on their site and use that as a tech night focus. Since the Hour of Code runs in December consider combining it with a holiday night with families (getting the PTO involved to serve cookies and hot chocolate). At a recent conference, I heard of one school hosting a Tech the Halls night where teachers decorated the halls with a technology th