What did Hour of Code look like in Vermont?
I was fortunate enough to get a real birdseye view as I rallied Vermont schools into showcasing their participation in a special site I set up a few years ago especially for this purpose http://thinkaboutcode.blogspot.com/
Hundreds of kids from around Vermont built their awareness (and confidence) with computer science! Over two hundred Vermont schools signed up to participate in Code.org's Hour of Code event. Check out our showcase of Vermont participation at http://thinkaboutcode.blogspot.com/ or get a really quick two min glimpse into what Hour of Code looked like in Vermont with the following video.
And for a closer look, check out the collection of pictures you all submitted directly to Vermont’s Hour of Code site in our 2015 Gallery.
Here is a Storified collection of the tweets we found from #vted and #hourofcode.
Many of Vermont educators created your own multimedia stories. They were AWESOME! I added them on the Featured Stories page.
Some schools had guest speakers come directly to their school, while others were able to interact with guest speakers remotely as made possible by today’s Video Conferencing technology (such as Google Hangout or Join.me). Thank you to Peter Drescher and the Agency of Education for recruiting some great role models for our students to interact with. The great thing about this guest speaker series is that you can view the archive (or parts of them) anytime that works in your instruction. Snippets ranging from advice to girls from female coders to troubleshooting excerpts can give students a glimpse into the world of coding outside our schools. 
Some schools participated in making the Robot Rodeo Announcement as an opportunity to continue coding beyond and hour of code. From January to May, Vermont schools will be hosting (and training through code) a fleet of fun codable robots in preparation for an upcoming Robot Rodeo. If you know a Vermont school that might be interested in hosting a robot, or know someone who would want to sponsor a robot, check out
And if you are an educator who would like to grow your own ‘ability to code’, why not do it together through the upcoming January course (online) at Marlboro College - CREATE WITH CODE, EDU621D.W16 designed for educators with Little to No experience to gain confidence with code and how to integrate it in their classroom. Marlboro College Graduate School CREATE WITH CODE, EDU621D.W16
And a big CONGRATULATIONS to Chamberlin School of South Burlington, Vermont for their $10,000 award from Code.org.
GREAT JOB Vermont!
Note: If your a Vermont school and want to see your specific school’s submission to the http://thinkaboutcode.blogspot.com/ , just click on the hyperlink tag with your school’s name. Some of the submission had no names, so I tagged them “NEWS”.
You can simply click on each day’s submission tag.
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