On Friday, December 12th, the fifth grade challenge class in one of my buildings culminated their Hour of Code week by speaking to Frederick Dupere, a software programmer at Microsoft in California. Frederick is 28 years old and originally from Canada.
He talked to the kids about his job and the journey he took to become a programmer. The kids asked him about coding, what they could do to get such a job, and about creating their own apps, websites and programs. Mr. Dupere shared an important message to the kids that it doesn't matter your gender or where you come from, that as long as you keep working hard, you can be anything you want to be.
The experience was great and to quote one of the kids, "This is the best Virtual lesson we've done yet"!
