The Fiero Code Blog

Today is a big day.  We released the Robot Avatars, and everyone is buzzing with excitement. We've had avatars since the beginning, but as we grew, and as our student population evolved, it became obvious that the old avatars needed...

Here's a new resource that walks your through 8 ways to make code club more "fun!" Why? Because all of our code clubs could stand a good dash of fun now and then. 1. Background Music A little background music just helps the kids know...

The results are in! From October 1 - November 30th, 2022 students were working hard inside Fiero Code for the code challenge called "Map of The Universe." In this 8-week hackathon, students needed to create an animated model of the solar...

Ladies and Gentlemen, I am pleased to announce the birth of Fiero Code! Fiero was born yesterday at 12:01am after a long labor and delivery... okay, okay this metaphor's gone far enough. The last seven years as "Prenda" has been nothing...

In 2013 Kelly and Andy started a code club at the downtown Mesa location of the Mesa Public Library. Tolkien’s line from The Fellowship of the Ring proved true: “It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step...

We've been doing regular coding contests (we call them code challenges) for about a year and a half now, and these have grown into one of our favorite things! Kids from all around the world can enter the contest (for FREE through their...

The Fiero Fall Coding Contest was a great success!  Coders from all over came up with some fantastic projects to record their reading and hone their skills for our next encounter with Dr. Lou Gnarr! And now, after much deliberation,...

We recently dug into the most well known computer science standard in the world from the Computer Science Teachers Association, known as the CSTA Standards. The CSTA is a great organization and the work that they've put into these...