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Inspiration

Coding is more about creating your own future than it is about computers. Anyone can learn to code and everyone should experience the joy of solving problems using software. Watch these videos to learn more:

1. Dancing with Codes - Miral Kotb, the CEO of iLuminate (http://iluminate.com/), explains how two seemingly irrelevant childhood interests, dancing and coding, merge and become foundations of her creative performance productions that fuse dance, music, light and technology. Watch her TEDxBroadway talk - The Intersection of Art & Technology! Next click on this link and ask yourself, Do you think about "code" when you watch this video? or when you can experience this in a theater?
2. Code Stars - Learn about a new "superpower" that isn't being taught in 90% of US schools.
3. Change the World - Computer science is a foundational field that opens doors for all boys and girls.
4. John Deere is the heart of Silicon Prairie - Software in the lab, on the farm and on the go.
5. John Deere, ISG and the technology to help feed the world See how you can work together to help farmers produce more food for our growing population.
6. Why Coding is the Job Skill of the Future
7. SPARKED: A Live Interaction Between Humans and Quadcopters - "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."-Arthur C Clarke

Let's start with a Design Challenge for 2016.