iCode Graduates FIRST Ever Class of 3rd – 7th Grade STEAM Students

FRISCO, Texas - Feb. 23, 2016 - PRLog -- iCode (http://www.icodeinc.com/), an after-school and weekend STEAM education program, kicked off National Engineering Week on February 19^th with their FIRST ever graduation for students in third through seventh grade. Students, parents, grandparents and iCode executives celebrated the evening with a special ceremony and social event that included gaming and robotics games as well as a keynote presentation by Quotient CFO Jennifer Ceran, on what it’s like to work in Silicon Valley. Similar to martial arts, students’ mastery is represented by the color of their “belt,” or in this case, lanyards. Instead of moving a graduation tassel, 15 students earned their new colored lanyards, representing the next level in the program.

Careers in STEM are in high demand, but high school students show little interest. According to the National Math and Science Initiative, 2014 (https://www.nms.org/AboutNMSI/TheSTEMCrisis/STEMEducationStatistics.aspx), of the 15 major study categories, engineering has the highest median earnings, yet fewer than 20 percent of students choose a STEM path. When it comes to computer science, the stats are even lower. In fact, computer programming jobs are growing at two-times the national average, but fewer than 2.4 percent of college students graduate with a degree in computer science.

iCode (http://icodeinc.com/index.htm)seeks to fill that gap and its first graduation ceremony celebrates the efforts of iCode’s young students as they have earned their way to the next steps in their journey in STEAM.