Cracking the Code!

"This is awesome!”  

"It’s so much fun!"

"I never thought I could do this!”

That's the buzz at Cherokee Charter Academy as kids in grades 4 – 9 were among some 20-million students worldwide to successfully write computer code. 

It was part of the global “Hour of Code” campaign to promote the field of computer science and inspire students to learn to create software applications.

Students in 170 countries managed to write over 675 million lines of computer code.  It’s hoped they’ll keep writing code because by 2020 it’s estimated there will be one million more computing jobs than there are computer science students.

Cherokee Charter technology teacher Danielle Deneka says, “Computer programming is a high paying, high demand career in our country. I hope that this introduction to programming will spark interest among our students."

Organizers at Code.org are particularly proud that more girls participated in computer science through “Hour of Code” for two weeks in December than in the last 70 years.

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