Two Exciting Opportunities for Minnesota Educators in 2025–2026 🎉

[Ashley Goetz]

Good morning,

We hope you are having a great start to the new school year. 

At Code Savvy, we are deeply committed to supporting educators across Minnesota with professional learning, resources, and year-round support. Our mission is to help you bring equitable and engaging computer science opportunities to students across Minnesota. That’s why we’re excited to share two opportunities for the 2025–2026 school year — and we’d love your help spreading the word to colleagues, administrators, and your wider learning communities!

Professional Development Series
Code Savvy is excited to launch our 2025–2026 Virtual Professional Development Series! These free, 90-minute evening sessions are designed for classroom teachers, after-school educators, parents, librarians, community leaders — anyone interested in supporting youth access to computer science.

Each session explores a specific CS topic and offers immediately usable resources, activities, and teaching strategies. Whether you're new to coding or deepening your CS teaching toolkit, there's something here for you. This year’s lineup includes sessions on block-based and text-based coding, Artificial Intelligence, and an exploration of our code.org Curriculum Pathways.

 

Choose the topics that interest you most or join the whole series! Learn more and register on our website.  

Byte-Sized Challenge
Applications are now open for Code Savvy's 2025-2026 Byte-Sized Challenge! 🎉

Join us in this introductory micro:bit and design thinking curriculum where students create solutions to community needs using the micro:bit. By signing up for this year’s school year challenge you will receive:

• Access to the free Curriculum (16 lessons offered in multiple languages)
• A free virtual onboarding session to learn implementation tips and tricks
• Ongoing implementation support during the school year
• An opportunity for your students to showcase their work at Code Savvy Celebrate in the spring
• 🎁 Several participants will receive classroom sets of micro:bits!

The Byte-Sized Challenge is designed for 5th-10th grade students, but can be adapted to support other grades. Visit our website to learn more.

🗓️ Fill out the interest form by September 22nd to be considered for this year’s challenge.

We’re excited to learn and grow with you this school year!

Best,

The Code Savvy Team