{"id":17036,"date":"2015-08-17T09:10:26","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T13:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/?p=17036"},"modified":"2015-08-17T09:10:26","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T13:10:26","slug":"job-teaching-after-school-programming-teacher-for-12-year-olds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/2015\/08\/17\/job-teaching-after-school-programming-teacher-for-12-year-olds\/","title":{"rendered":"[JOB \/ TEACHING] After-School Programming Teacher for 12 Year Olds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please contact Carl Haacke: \u00a0<a href=\"mailto:carlhaacke@skylightlab.com\" target=\"_blank\">carlhaacke@skylightlab.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On 8\/12\/15 3:39 PM, Carl Haacke wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ve been talking to a lot of teachers and students about deeper\u00a0ways to\u00a0engage kids in computer programming and science.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>I have a group of kids that have been doing a computer programming\u00a0class\u00a0after school since last November. (2 of the kids are mine).\u00a0 So far\u00a0they&#8217;ve worked with data\/stats a bit, made simple games, and a few\u00a0other\u00a0small projects in Javascript, Python, html\/css.\u00a0 They also worked on\u00a0some robotics and electronics. They&#8217;re 12 years old, but very\u00a0advanced,\u00a0very fast learners and eager for more and can think way past what\u00a0their\u00a0age might imply to some people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Some of them would like to go deeper into computer programming.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019m looking ahead to the fall and thinking of ways of going further\u00a0after-school with a deeper.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019m looking for college age or grad students that might be\u00a0interested in\u00a0engaging with them in an ongoing way.\u00a0 Might someone you know be\u00a0interested in mentoring a group of eager young learners in computer\u00a0programming?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019d also be really interested in helping the kids visit real computer\u00a0labs working on cutting edge research to give them exposure to the\u00a0exciting frontier.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Best,<br \/>\nCarl<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please contact Carl Haacke: \u00a0carlhaacke@skylightlab.com On 8\/12\/15 3:39 PM, Carl Haacke wrote: I&#8217;ve been talking to a lot of teachers and students about deeper\u00a0ways to\u00a0engage&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-job","category-teaching","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}