Teach kids to code, Apple's Tim Cook urges
- 8 years ago
Apple's new Upper East Side store on Madison Avenue in New York City has been many things since it was a bank.
Today its second floor, which is below ground and still houses the bank's vault, is a makeshift school and temporary way station for Apple CEO Tim Cook.
Cook's arrival on Wednesday is perfectly timed to coincide with an Hour of Code session with 18 students from the city's PS 57 James Weldon Johnson Leadership Academy, a Charter School in East Harlem.
For many of the children, this was their first experience with programming.
“I was limited in my knowledge of what we’d be doing,” PS 57 third-grade teacher Joann Kahn said.
“I’m excited for my students.
It opens their eyes to other possibilities and shows them that there’s more to do with iPads than just watch YouTube videos.”
Today its second floor, which is below ground and still houses the bank's vault, is a makeshift school and temporary way station for Apple CEO Tim Cook.
Cook's arrival on Wednesday is perfectly timed to coincide with an Hour of Code session with 18 students from the city's PS 57 James Weldon Johnson Leadership Academy, a Charter School in East Harlem.
For many of the children, this was their first experience with programming.
“I was limited in my knowledge of what we’d be doing,” PS 57 third-grade teacher Joann Kahn said.
“I’m excited for my students.
It opens their eyes to other possibilities and shows them that there’s more to do with iPads than just watch YouTube videos.”