Wisconsin needs more kids to take computer science. Can a Microsoft program help make that happen?

Grace Vanden Heuvel takes math courses online just for fun. She also likes to play music, especially percussion — “anything I can hit, bang or make noise out of.” She`s even written a few of her own compositions.

But at age 15, she has one other important distinction. She did something many other students in Wisconsin won’t get a chance to do: She completed AP Computer Science...

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Ken Notes: On line may be the answer here. A programmer tends not to be a good teacher and a teacher is often not a good programmer. The ability to learn and work online tends to work well with the skill set you are teaching. Also the best programmers look everything up online anyway...