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Teacher Opportunities:

CSTA New York State Virtual Meeting: Wednesday, May 15th from 5-6pm, Topic: "End of Year Projects: Ideas, Challenges, and Evaluations." Click here to join the Zoom on 5/15 at 5pm. 

CSTA NYC End of Year Celebration: Thursday, May 23^rd from 5pm – 7pm with Dinner at Google's Pier 57. Guest speakers, community awards, and dinner with colleagues. Click here to RSVP.

Student Opportunities:

The Knowledge House High School Program: Apply by May 17^th for TKH's Karim Kharbouch Coding Fellowship Program to spend your summer learning basic coding and career skills while earning a stipend!  Click here to apply.

Tech Scholars: Game Design: Monday-Friday, July 15-19, 10am-3pm. Apply here by May 19! Create your own digital game based on history! Research, conceptualize, and create your own 2D game inspired by the collections at the New-York Historical Society.

Tech Scholars: Web Design: Monday-Friday, July 22-26, 10am-3pm, Apply here by May 26! Explore how women across the spectrum of race, class, and sexuality exercised power and effected change. Be a digital changemaker and learn how to use HTML and CSS to design, code, and build your own websites to share powerful stories about women in history.

Tech Scholars: Podcasting: Monday-Friday, August 12-16, 10am-3pm. Apply here by June 9! Collaborate with other teens to create the first season of the New-York Historical teen podcast! This season's theme will be "Art as Activism" and will center works currently on view in the dynamic new exhibition, The Collection: New Conversations. Hone your skills in history, art, and technology as you research a topic; interview an artist or expert; and write, record, and edit your own podcast episode!

Whole Class Virtual Hackathon:

You're invited to our upcoming BreakBeatCode Hackathon on Friday, May 31st 10am-2pm ET, with special guest star Supernatural, the GOAT of freestyle hip hop. This event will be livestreamed and open to anyone to join. No prior coding or music experience required. 

Join us for the event, and you could walk away with a PS5 or Nintendo Switch, and have your remix featured on YouTube and Hot97! 

Learn more & sign up here.

What is a BreakBeatCode Hackathon? The BreakBeatCode Hackathon is a free livestream event where students ages 9 and up will learn how to create music with code using EarSketch, a free educational programming environment developed first at Georgia Tech.