Computer Science Education Week is just around the corner! Computer Science can be taught or celebrated any time of the

Computer Science Education Week is just around the corner! Computer Science can be taught or celebrated any time of the
May brings the close to a school year for many schools across the country. Unfortunately, this school year will be associated with words like Pandemic, Quarantine, and Remote Learning.
Schools have always had to deal with the tension between vocational and academic interests. Students will often ask, “When will I ever do this in real life?”.
Currently, there are nearly 1.5 billion students worldwide who are home from school due to the coronavirus pandemic. At VEX Robotics, we are working hard to meet the reality that over 60 million teachers are now being asked to teach from their living rooms instead of their classrooms.
We are all in the middle of watching history unfold as a result of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). Schools and businesses are closing, and there is uncertainty as to when they will reopen, let alone when things will get back to “normal.”