Knoxville Schools will be having students participate in several computer programming activities around and during the week of December 5 through 9.

Students will be participating in “The Hour of Code” during the week, a global movement reaching tens of millions of students in 180+ countries. The students will take one-hour tutorials that encourage dynamic problem solving and strategizing. Educators Tyler Pearson and Lindsey Carlson, the district’s designated technology integrationists, say more than half of the district’s students will participate in the hour during the week. They want students to get some exposure to this growing career field through the Hour of Code Program. Nationwide there are more than 500,000 unfilled jobs which include coding to some degree and jobs in the field are high-paying and filled quickly by computer science graduates.