Posts Tagged ‘computer science’

In December 2015, President Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). The bill focuses on elementary education to ensure every child is prepared to succeed in our modern economy. Part of that preparation requires a greater focus on computer science, which thanks to ESSA, will now be recognized as an important academic subject. This…

XANT continued its tradition of inspiring the technology leaders of tomorrow by participating in Hour of Code in honor of Computer Science Education Week. Through its Do Good Foundation, XANT sent a dozen employees to Maple Ridge Elementary in Mapleton, Utah, to teach fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders the basics of binary numbers on Tuesday, Dec.…