It’s Hack Week in NYC, and Brooklyn Schools won’t be left out of the loop
A week dedicated to coding and debugging
Pew pew pew! Students across New York City will be designing and coding computer games this week as part of the nationwide Computer Science Education Week.
To launch the event, Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña announced a new computer game competition called the CS4All Hack League. Students from 62 middle and high schools will be designing fun games to tackle serious topics such as “connected cities” and “news literacy,” in partnership with Games for Change. Winners will advance to borough-wide and then citywide competitions later in the year.
Brooklyn schools will play a big part in the Hack League, thanks to Borough President Eric Adams’ Code Brooklyn initiative, launched in 2015. Through Code Brooklyn, the borough’s schools have been expanding computer science education by training teachers, building curriculum and infrastructure and getting support from parents.
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