Old Mill School’s MVGATE “Hour of Code” Night was amazing! 120 Old Mill adults and kids attended (with a waiting list of dozens more), from every grade, K to 5. Attendees loved participating as families in 2-person teams, they were delighted to find kids serving as Code Coaches, and they enjoyed the fun challenge of the coding puzzles. Survey comments have been simply remarkable. You can see all of them, unedited, right here, including “…The best program I’ve seen in my four years in MVSD…”  Children enthralled with a new play and art form.  Fourth & fifth grade Code Coaches elated with their role.  Plus our superb parent volunteers, from professional developers to some true IT gunslingers.  And it was fun!  In addition to parents evaluation comments, here’s a rather mind-boggling statistic:  when asked in our survey afterwards if they would like to see similar follow-up programs for them and their children, 100% of parent respondents chose “Definitely.”  Not “Probably.”  Definitely.  100%.  We’re thrilled.

As we conveyed to principals and administrators last week, in addition to continuing with next offerings for Old Mill, we want to offer the Hour of Code-based model to our other schools.  We will be in touch just after New Year’s to do so.

Thanks again so much to Old Mill principal Kandee Adams and PTA president Karen Meezan for fast decisions and superb execution, to Emily Cookson for great communications help, to our more than 20 volunteer Code Coaches (kids and adults alike!), to Kath Cramer and Elizabeth Leane, and to everyone who participated.  More soon in this MV GATE program.  For more info on the MV GATE Hour of Code program, call 415-388-0184, or drop us an email.