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What’s New: New Tools for Schools

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KinderLab Robotics ( kinderlabrobotics.com ) announced Free Throw , a throwing-arm attachment that lets the KIBO robot toss ping pong-sized balls. With the attachment, students can code KIBO to drive to the basket and shoot, hit a target, and play games like basketball, quidditch, lacrosse, and corn-toss.

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TEACHER VOICE: How students in one Massachusetts town learned to love coding

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When I was 8 years old, my father began teaching me a programming language called BASIC, using an Epson QX10 computer. Thousands of students in Plymouth public elementary schools participate in Hour of Code, a lynchpin in our technology curriculum for the past three years. Boy using a tablet. Photo: Jamel Toppin/Mint Images/ZUMA Wire.