Too Long; Didn't Read
<a href="http://bizstreamacademy.com" target="_blank">BizStream Academy</a> is a free summer coding camp, hosted by the web development company I work for, <a href="http://www.bizstream.com" target="_blank">BizStream</a>. It runs three days a week, two hours a day and lasts for two weeks. We’re constantly iterating and evolving our curriculum, materials, marketing, session length, and website design. Last year we had one long eight week session. Some students dropped out or sat in the back and played Minecraft. We showed Treehouse videos in class. It was a terrible idea. Treehouse is great for independent learning, but not for showing in front of a class. The year before we used Codecademy. The year before that we had eight students. This year we had over 60 and we used <a href="https://www.girldevelopit.com/materials" target="_blank">Girl Develop It’s curriculum</a>, heavily edited. <em>Heavily</em>. After our first 2 week session, we rewrote our entire JavaScript curriculum.