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Making it easier to do something “life-changing”

By Guest PostDecember 22, 2015Technologylife changing, micro volunteering, microsoft campus, microsoft employees

Microsoft offers employees many ways to make a difference – and then doubles their impact

It’s noon on a Friday, but a group of Microsoft employees are focused on something more important than lunch. They’ll spend the next hour helping a local nonprofit that’s working to give impoverished children with a common birth defect the ability to walk for the first time. (more…)

Hour of Code: When creativity and logic spark that ‘aha’ moment for young people

By Guest PostDecember 7, 2015Education, Technologyaha moment, allan la, bill parks, code workshops, creativity, diana carolina, elizabeth desbien, grenade finch, hour of code, kasey champion, logic, mateusz hoffman, microsoft campus, minecraft, torres viasus

Allan La Grenade-Finch remembers the moment an 8th grader, a “great kid” who often sat in the back of class and struggled with science, “lit up” during last year’s Hour of Code at Cardozo Education Campus in Washington, D.C. (more…)