{"id":3918,"date":"2018-06-26T09:57:53","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T14:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/?p=3918"},"modified":"2020-08-17T17:34:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T17:34:57","slug":"barbies-latest-career-path-is-robotics-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2018\/06\/26\/barbies-latest-career-path-is-robotics-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbie&#8217;s latest career path is robotics engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/06\/26\/mattel-barbie-robotics-engineer\/\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/06\/26\/mattel-barbie-robotics-engineer\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dan-kohn.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/dims.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.dan-kohn.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/dims-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3928\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/dims-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/dims-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/dims-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/dims-1536x864.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/dims-1200x675.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/dims.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Mattel announced that it was partnering with Tynker to bring Barbie-themed coding lessons to young kids. As of today, six free coding experiences are now available as is a new STEM-themed doll &#8212; Robotics Engineer Barbie. The lessons are geared towards beginners, kindergarten-aged and older, and aim to teach logic, problem-solving and the basics of coding. While they learn, kids can also take on different career roles alongside Barbie, including musician, astronaut, pastry chef, robotics engineer, farmer and beekeeper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our mission is to empower youth to become the makers of tomorrow through coding, and the Barbie brand is an ideal partner to help us introduce programming to a large number of kids in a fun, engaging way,&#8221; Tynker CEO Krishna Vedati said in a statement. &#8220;It&#8217;s critical that all young learners have an opportunity to explore the possibilities available in STEM fields, and Tynker&#8217;s Barbie programming experience is a valuable tool to introduce kids of all ages to these concepts while building their coding skills.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the year, Mattel will also support the robotic workshops put on by Black Girls Code, debut more Tynker coding lessons and publish a coding e-book for kids.<\/p>\n<p>Robotics Engineer Barbie is available today in four skin tones. You can learn more about Mattel&#8217;s coding partnership with Tynker <a href=\"https:\/\/barbie.mattel.com\/en-us\/about\/barbie-tynker.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/06\/26\/mattel-barbie-robotics-engineer\/ Earlier this year, Mattel announced that it was partnering with Tynker to bring Barbie-themed coding lessons to young kids. As of today, six free coding experiences are now available as is a new STEM-themed doll &#8212; Robotics Engineer &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2018\/06\/26\/barbies-latest-career-path-is-robotics-engineering\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-robot-news","category-robot-projects","category-teaching_tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4766,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3918\/revisions\/4766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}