Facebook and Sphero team up to offer coding robots to schools

Facebook has announced a new initiative that aims to teach coding skills to more school kids. Targeting primarily underrepresented student groups -- such as Black, Latino/Hispanic, Native American and female demographics -- CodeFWD will allow teachers to apply for a free set of 15 Sphero Bolt robots upon completion of a series of curricula. Designed for English and Spanish speakers, CodeFWD is a three-step online program for 4th through 8th-grade students that doesn't require prior knowledge from them or their teachers. The first module, "I do," prepares educators to introduce programming to their classrooms. The second one, "We do," is for the teachers and students to learn together.