Silicon Valley Kids Learn to Code

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Santa Clara, CA – On Saturday, February 20, almost 100 students and parents in Silicon Valley met at the ServiceNow headquarters in Santa Clara to learn to code with SPARK Programming.  They created a version of the popular Sky Burger game – try your skills at the game against some of the students’ projects HERE.

 

Spark Programs at the U of A!

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Tucson, AZ – On Sunday, November 22nd, kids all around Tucson cooked up some burgers at the University of Arizona with their burger stacking game. Programmers of all ages created this classic app in a 2 hour session.

To see what students projects, click HERE. (They are awesome!)

Programming League

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SPARK Programming League, Sponsored by STAVE

Students from all around San Diego participated in the first annual programming league!  The league kicked off on Saturday, July 11 and concluded with a tournament on Saturday, August 22.  Teams of 2-4 students ages 8 and up created games, demoed them, and coded in a Hackath0n!

Check out the games they created HERE.

SPARK smashes code at CodeSmashXX

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San Diego, CA – SPARKprogramming worked with Qualcomm to run CodeSmashXX, a girls-only event to create our favorite classic – Asteroids. “I liked that I was able to design my own custom video game. Its cool to be the one creating the game and not playing it.”

Click here to see the studio of all the projects from this event.

SPARK helped inspire kids at Illumina

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San Diego, CA – SPARK helped inspire kids at Illumina’s Bring Your Kids to Work Day by building Virus Invaders.

See the template and the games created here.

 

SPARK Raises funds for NFAR.org

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San Diego, CA – On Saturday, March 14th, one of our instructors, Brenden, taught a Programming for Kids event to raise funds for NFAR as a part of his Eagle Scout Project. Students built a “Race for Autism” game while supporting a great cause! Learn more about NFAR at www.nfar.org.

CLICK HERE for the STUDIO of Projects Created during this event!

SPARK Presents Programming for Kids at MIT!

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Boston, MA – On Saturday, January 24th, SPARK Programming was honored to present Programming for Kids at MIT, the birthplace of Scratch! The event, sponsored by ServiceNow partner Cloud Sherpas, provided an introduction to programming by creating a working version of Asteroids!

The projects created were posted for the AM Session and the PM Session – check them out! →

SPARK Hosts 2nd Annual “Scratch Out Poverty”

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San Diego, CA – ServiceNow hosted our 2nd annual “Scratch Out Poverty” charity event where we raised $1,031 benefiting 3 local charities:

• Toys – Jackie Robinson YMCA – bringing toys to underprivileged children
• Food – San Diego Food Bank – providing food to families in need in San Diego
• Housing – San Diego Rescue Mission – helping the homeless in San Diego

To see what the students created, click below:

• Food Drive inspired Cake Collector game
• Pac Man

Space Invaders at ServiceNow

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San Diego, CA – About 100 people gathered to remember the magic of Space Invaders and recreate it using Scratch and ServiceNow.

Check out some of the projects here.

Scratch Day, 2014

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San Diego, CA – ServiceNow hosted two Programming for Kids events for about 200 people. The events featured MIT’s cloud based Scratch programming language IDE and ServiceNow’s recently released Visual Task Boards.

Students created Asteroids and a Scratchified version of Flappy Bird.