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K-12 Education

NewBoCo K–12 Education programs focus on encouraging creativity, fostering entrepreneurship, helping kids learn how to code, and promoting computer science.

And check our Computer Science Resources page for additional projects and links to expand your computer science world!

grades k–8

A mother helps her child look through a microscope during a CoderDojo event

CoderDojo

NewBoCo’s CoderDojo is a free STEM program that encourages creativity, fosters entrepreneurship, and helps kids learn to code. Although our focus is K–5, we welcome all K–8th grade students at CoderDojo.

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Girls Who Code Club

Girls Who Code Clubs are spaces where 3rd–5th-grade students can join our sisterhood of supportive peers and use computer science to change the world.

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grades 6–12

A volunteer guides a young student through a project on her laptop during Girls Who Code

Girls Who Code Club

Girls Who Code Clubs are spaces where 6th-12th-grade students can join our sisterhood of supportive peers and use computer science to change the world.

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Community Events

Future City (Grades 6-8)

Future City is a project-based learning program where students in 6th, 7th, and 8th grades imagine, research, design, and build cities of the future. Starting with the question, “How can we make the world a better place?” students imagine, research, design, and build cities of the future that showcase their solution to a citywide sustainability issue.

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Why Computer Science in Iowa?

Unlocking Doors for Students

NewBoCo is the designated provider of Code.org Professional Learning Programs in Iowa. Our role includes providing quality professional development to educators through local school district partnerships and acting as a regional hub of the global computer science education movement. NewBoCo will work with schools and provide networking and collaboration events for computer science teachers.

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Fort Madison Middle School

NewBoCo + Fort Madison Community School District's Success Story

See how our continued partnership with Code.org and our mission to build up computer science education in every Iowa school is supporting students, teachers, administrators, and Fort Madison Community School District's position in future of the world.

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NewBoCo + Osage School District's Success Story

Learn about our partnership with Code.org and our impact on Osage Community Schools through our computer science curriculum. Both teachers and students have learned coding skills to build better futures.

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Upcoming Events