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Sutter Creek elementary

"...a bigger success than I could have imagined..." 
-Principal Sean Spicer

From the Calaveras Ledger Dispatch:
Sutter Creek Elementary Hosts first Ever “Family Code Night”
Nearly 100 participants showed up on Wednesday, December 7 for Sutter Creek Elementary School’s first ever, “Family Code Night”.  The night, hosted by Principal Sean Snider, paired kids (K-6) on a Chromebook with their parent or guardian, in a room full of their friends, to solve fun puzzles while doing the “Hour of Code” together.  “This was a great opportunity for us to bring families together for a fun evening and to raise awareness of the importance of computer science” said Mr. Snider.  “There are some startling statistics out there such as the U.S. needs 1 million more STEM professionals in the next decade than it is projected to produce at the current rate (National Math and Science Initiative).”  The school’s parent group, SCEPTOR provided a light dessert for all participants at the end of the event.  “The event was a bigger success than I could have ever imagined.  It was so exciting to see how engaged everyone was and how much fun families were having doing computer coding.”

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better than I would have thought possible.

​Family Code Night is a whole-school family event that dramatically ignites coding and computer science learning at any elementary school, and in any family.  The program uniquely engages children K-5 and their parents or guardians in the delightful experience of doing their first hour of computer programming together, in an early evening special school program. Family participation is a simple but profound innovation in this event – it changes the trajectory of a child’s computer-science learning, and the family’s appreciation and support for that learning.  The result is a memorable school experience, a powerfully mobilized school community, and new family, social, and school momentum and direction to drive future computer science learning. 

​Pioneered by the California non-profit MV GATE, Family Code Night has been conducted for thousands of kids and parents at schools throughout Marin County, California, and now at schools nationwide.
 
Now, with the generous support of national program sponsor Capital One, every parent and school in America is being invited to bring Family Code Night to their school.  As part of President Obama’s Computer Science For All initiative, MV GATE has created an Event Kit that shows any school, organization, or parent volunteer exactly how to put on the event, from invitations to posters, Program script to handouts, and much more.  Now, that Kit is being offered to any elementary school in America via the event and volunteer organizing platform of SignUp.com.  Millions of parents and educators will be invited to get the Kit, and use this innovative system to bring Family Code Night to their school.
 
Our goal is to see superb Family Code Nights at thousands of American schools, to directly enable millions of kids and parents to start or continue their coding education in 2016, and to build from there to fuel fresh advocacy and action for coding education from newly engaged school communities and families.