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Knoxville Community School District students took part in an “Hour of Code” during National Computer Science Week last month. A total of 958 students participated, completing a total of 125,140 lines of code while working for at least an hour during the week. This included 44,005 lines of code for high school students, 47,053 lines for middle school students, 23,110 lines for Northstar Elementary students and 10,972 lines for West Elementary students. Over the past month students also learned how developers use code to build artificial intelligence to identify forest fires in a more timely manner. During their science class, seventh graders tried their hand at coding by creating a Dance Party, and they also tackled the idea of training a computer program to build AI to help clean up trash from the ocean. Coding is just one element of computer science, a broad field that covers how and why technologies work and how they can solve real-world problems. Students engaged in the field learn about computer programming, data, networks and the effects of technology on individuals and society.