Overview: Small hands-on Python projects help young learners understand loops, variables, and logic naturally through ...

Kids as young as five are learning the principles of coding — courtesy of Apple’s expanding Swift learning curriculum. As part of EU Code Week, Apple is highlighting how its Swift coding language is ...

A couple of years back, Mattel and Tynker partnered up to produce programming lessons based on Hot Wheels and Monster High. Now the two companies are expanding their partnership to launch seven new ...

As a veteran management consultant, Fran Maxwell noticed a shortage of employees with technology skills. For many of his past clients — Fortune 1000 companies that yearned to fix their problems — the ...

Apple has partnered with Tynker, a San Francisco-based STEM education platform, to release two new game-based programming lessons aimed to help kids learn how to code. The new Space Cadet and Dragon ...

My five- and seven-year-old constantly fight over who gets the iPad first. We have one, and they get to use it in tiny doses, usually when I'm at my wit's end. Their favorite app? ScratchJr, MIT's ...

Fifteen years ago, I started this column with the advice that "computers are not a passing fad -- they are here to stay." In this, my last column as USA Today's Kid-Tech Columnist, my advice is: teach ...

In partnership with the UVI Research and Technology Park (RTPark), the Caribbean Center for Boys and Girls is offering a free VI STEM Kids coding program this summer, complete with free laptops to ...

All aboard the learn-to-code train! As another holiday season looms and kids everywhere start clamouring for shiny stuff, we’ve got you covered with a bumper edition of our annual STEM gift guide.

MIDLAND, Texas — For kids interested in sports or music, they have plenty of avenues to improve their craft. The athletes have their pick of the litter when it comes to sports. Football, baseball, ...

Writing computer code is an important tool scientists use to learn more about climate change. Climatologists use code to make models that can help predict, mitigate, or even resolve climate disasters.

BEIJING — Liu Shang tilted his head and sighed before tapping a plump finger on his computer’s keyboard. When asked if there was a problem the sixth-grader shrugged, barely looked up from the screen ...