Our future in business in the Tweet of the day (10/2/14)

Sent my son @joinGEN_Z: 75 HS kids with LivingSocial Co-founder Tim O'Shaughnessy! @LivingSocial @1776dc @KogodBiz pic.twitter.com/XTUPZrqjcK

— Doug Francis (@dougfrancis) September 22, 2014

@1776dc has fall internship opps; deadline to apply is Aug. 1

Want to make an impact? Apply for a Fall 2014 #internship at 1776! (WAY better than a Hill job...) http://t.co/d6xkU7jV8g

— 1776 (@1776dc) July 23, 2014

The deadline for undergrads and grad students to apply for one of the 1776 fall internships is August 1, 2014. All interns will handle various projects to promote the 1776 mission, support Campus incubator programming and Campus operations. It should do without saying that interns are valued team members!

For the fall, 1776 has the following internship opportunities:

• Events
• Editorial
• Design
• PR/Marketing
• Business/Finance
• Executive Support
• Membership
• Operations
• Public Policy
• More!

Games make coding more accessible

Coding is not the new frontier but teaching it and teaching it well to students may be. As Raj Sidhu points out in Programming through play: Why teaching kids to code will change how the rest of us code,

Kids are natural builders, quick learners, and generally a lot smarter than we give them credit for. But if I could barely stay engaged in my college Java lectures, there's no way they could hold a 10 year-old's attention. We need to redefine how education works, not by asking kids to conform to our patterns and expectations, but by attempting to conform to theirs.

Sidhu describes how games developed by MIT and others are helping children learn to code and work together to solve problems, which is what coding is all about, after all. As an added benefit, games and this new way of teaching can help everyone. Last week, Sidhu shared links to and descriptions of coding games; see the Tweet below.

12 games that teach kids to code — and are even fun, too http://t.co/ruRUgOnVco via @GamesBeat

— Raj Sidhu (@_raj_sidhu) June 4, 2014

Tweets of the day (5/31/14)

.@BASISDC @CH_Montessori #hackercivics shared their map of DC homeless students @DCGeographic closing program. #gis pic.twitter.com/5c3co6yVsL

— Sandra Moscoso (@sandramoscoso) May 31, 2014

.@DCGeographic alumni @BASISDC recognized 4 mentoring @CH_Montessori & 4 their ongoing use of #gis for social good. pic.twitter.com/8DouLLN3JF

— Sandra Moscoso (@sandramoscoso) May 31, 2014