{"630704":{"#nid":"630704","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Ciara comes home to surprise STEM students","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEarSketch, a computer program created\u0026nbsp;by School of Literature, Media, and\u0026nbsp;Communication professor Brian Magerko with School of Music professor Jason Freeman, was mentioned in an article from\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ECNN\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eon Jan. 6, 2020.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEarSketch is a free-to-use program that teaches students the programming languages Python and JavaScript in the context of creating and manipulating songs in a \u0026quot;digital audio workstation.\u0026quot; It is used by more than 375,000 students and instructors in 50 states and more than 100 different countries.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe program got some celebrity exposure recently when star R\u0026amp;B singer Ciara came to Paul Duke STEM High School in Norcross to speak to students and listen to remixes of her songs\u0026nbsp;that students created in EarSketch. Students could submit their creations for the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.amazonfutureengineer.com\/earsketch\u0022\u003ECiara Remix Competition\u003C\/a\u003E, run by Amazon and Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECiara told CNN the program not only is empowering to the students, but also targets underserved students who might otherwise be at a disadvantage in a world so clearly driven by technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Coding is really the way,\u0026quot; she said. \u0026quot;What I\u0026#39;ve learned through my experiences with Amazon, in particular in this program, is that it\u0026#39;s now almost in some places a requirement to get a job. I said to the kids today, when you walk into a room, you have an extra level of cool by adding coding. You automatically level up your game.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/12\/16\/entertainment\/ciara-amazon-stem\/index.html\u0022\u003ERead the full article here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35266","created_gmt":"2020-01-07 18:20:22","changed_gmt":"2020-01-07 19:10:06","author":"ifrazer3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"McMillan Street","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/12\/16\/entertainment\/ciara-amazon-stem\/index.html","dateline":{"date":"2020-01-06T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2020-01-06T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"624287":{"id":"624287","type":"image","title":"Brian Magerko","body":null,"created":"1565370308","gmt_created":"2019-08-09 17:05:08","changed":"1565370308","gmt_changed":"2019-08-09 17:05:08","alt":"","file":{"fid":"237731","name":"Brian Magerko.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Brian%20Magerko.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Brian%20Magerko.png","mime":"image\/png","size":84568,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Brian%20Magerko.png?itok=DfGeRTdl"}}},"media_ids":["624287"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"14469","name":"Brian Magerko"},{"id":"183474","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts; LMC; Literature; Earsketch"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}