Microsoft supports Hour of Code as part of YouthSpark initative

Hour of Code sets students up to become future successes. It’s all about making coding attractive for young adults and fun for students and teaching them important life skills.

Microsoft’s partnership with Code.org is part of Microsoft YouthSpark, a global effort to empower youth to do more and achieve more, including expanding access to computer science education. In honour of Computer Science Education Week and Hour of Code, Microsoft has a number of events and initiatives going on, including:

Mobilizing more than 50 Microsoft employees to be trained and deployed to schools and to YouthSpark partner sites (such as Pathways to Education and Boys and Girls Clubs) to lead an Hour of Code

Engaging with nineteen YouthSpark partners’ sites in over 10 cities across Canada to have a Microsoft-affiliated volunteer lead an Hour of Code

Bringing the classroom into the Microsoft Technology Centre by hosting students from a local school for an Hour of Code at Microsoft’s Mississauga office on December 9^th