Young People's Project connects tech and civil rights
Posted by The Young People's Project January 22, 2014 12:00 PM
By Bethany Allen
Source: Cambridge Chronicle
In Microsoft’s Kendall Square office on a Friday afternoon last fall, about a dozen people worked busily building programs from scratch. Literally, the programs were built on Scratch, a freely available application developed by MIT Media Lab’s Lifelong Kindergarten Group. The programmers? Local teenagers, brought to Microsoft by the Young People’s Project for a free conference billed as a “sampling of real-world S.T.E.A.M.-related career topics and skills.”
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To '60s Civil Rights Hero, Math Is Kids' Formula For Success
Posted by The Young People's Project August 01, 2013 05:38 PM
Bob Moses is 78, but he has the same probing eyes you see behind thick black glasses in photos from 50 years ago when he worked as a civil rights activist in Mississippi. The son of a janitor, Moses was born and raised in Harlem. He's a Harvard-trained philosopher and a veteran teacher.
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