For the first year, brand new UISD campus Freedom elementary joined the global mission to introduce students to computer science. The Hour of Code is the largest learning event in history and for it’s inauguration year the Freedom Elementary Library joined the mission to educate their students in computer science during National Computer Science Education Week, December 4-10, and prior to their first ever Technology Fair.

Computers are everywhere, changing every industry on the planet, but fewer than half of all schools teach computer science. Girls and minorities are severely underrepresented in computer science classes, and in the tech industry. Good news is, we here at Freedom Elementary  on our way to change this.

With the Hour of Code, computer science has been on homepages of Google, MSN, Yahoo! and Disney. Over 100 partners have joined together to support this movement. Every Apple Store in the world has hosted an Hour of Code, and leaders like President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wrote their first lines of code as part of the campaign.

That’s why every one of the Kinder- 5th grade students at Freedom Elementary  joined in on the largest learning event in history: The Hour of Code, during Computer Science Education Week (December 4-10).