Google Has $100 For Teachers Who Steer 20+ Children To 'Google CS First'

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Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: In what has become a holiday tradition of sorts, Google is again rewarding teachers who steer kids to Google Hour of Code lessons with $100 gift codes. “When teachers in grades 2-8 complete the Google CS First activity ‘Code Your Hero’ with at least 20 of their students and fill out our Classroom Rewards form,” explains the DonorsChoose Help Center, “they’ll receive a $100 DonorsChoose.org gift code.”

According to the posted FAQ, that might work out to be about $2.50 or less per child-hour. (“We estimate that this can take up to 2 hours of class time”).

For this year’s Computer Science Education Week, Google has also enlisted the help of the ever-likable Chance the Rapper to get its CS First coding curriculum into classrooms, and provided a $250,000 Google.org grant to support the SocialWorks (Chance’s nonprofit) and Chicago Public Schools’ CS4All initiatives.

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