{"630705":{"#nid":"630705","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Contest merges music, coding to lure students to computer science","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 in the \u003Cem\u003EAtlanta Journal-Constitution\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eon Dec. 17, 2019.\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\u003EUsing Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s learn-to-code-through-music platform, EarSketch, high school students have the opportunity to win prizes by composing an original remix featuring the song \u0026ldquo;SET\u0026rdquo; from Grammy-Award winning singer-songwriter Ciara. The competition is intended to get young people excited about computer science and coding.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHigh school students across the country can enter the competition through Jan. 20.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I always get students who come in and say they don\u0026rsquo;t know anything about programming and they may be a little intimidated at first,\u0026rdquo; said Philip Peavey, digital technology teacher at Paul Duke. \u0026ldquo;But once they get going they realize that it\u0026rsquo;s something they can do \u0026hellip; it opens their eyes to career possibilities that they maybe hadn\u0026rsquo;t thought of before.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/local\/contest-merges-music-coding-lure-students-computer-science\/vcGo6bf571y5OE457uCtXM\/\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 18:30:48","changed_gmt":"2020-01-07 19:11:33","author":"ifrazer3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/local\/contest-merges-music-coding-lure-students-computer-science\/vcGo6bf571y5OE457uCtXM\/","dateline":{"date":"2019-12-17T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-12-17T00:00:00-05:00","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"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"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":""}}}