{"id":515,"date":"2014-12-06T18:36:15","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T02:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/?p=515"},"modified":"2014-12-06T18:36:15","modified_gmt":"2014-12-07T02:36:15","slug":"apple-hosting-hour-of-code-workshops-next-week-on-dec-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/?p=515","title":{"rendered":"Apple Hosting \u201cHour of Code\u201d Workshops Next Week on Dec. 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple, Microsoft and a handful of other tech giants launched Hour of Code in 2013 to spur student interest in coding and computer science. Now, a year later, the program is kicking off again starting next week.<\/p>\n<p>Apple announced its Hour of Code schedule on Thursday, with events taking place at every Apple Store on Dec. 11. Each location should have some sort of workshop that you can sign up for right now, while some are also offering special events. For example, Apple\u2019s SoHo store in NY will host\u00a0Jocelyn Leavitt, the CEO and co-founder of Hopscotch, an app designed to teach kids about coding.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Apple isn\u2019t the only one hosting Hour of Code workshops. The company notes that roughly 62,000 events are set to take place around the world\u00a0next week, so there should be something for everyone. Hit the source links below to sign-up for an Apple event or head to Hour of Code\u2019s website to see what else is out there.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sourcevia-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"sourcevia fCaps fLS0\"><span class=\"label fLS1\">SOURCE<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/retail\/code\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">APPLE<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/hourofcode.com\/us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HOUR OF CODE<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple, Microsoft and a handful of other tech giants launched Hour of Code in 2013 to spur student interest in coding and computer science. Now, a year later, the program is kicking off again starting next week. Apple announced its Hour of Code schedule on Thursday, with events taking place at every Apple Store on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-apple","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}