This year’s Nebraska NYSD statewide event will take place on Tuesday, October 16; other local events will be happening throughout the month. This year’s challenge, sponsored by 4-H and Google, is Code Your World which invites kids to get involved in computer science through hands-on doing.

Code Your World is a four-part computer science (CS) challenge that teaches youth to apply CS to the world around them through hands-on activities. Developed by Google and West Virginia University Extension Services, it includes a computer-based activity on Google’s CS First platform and three unplugged activities that bring coding to life through games and interaction.