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> where the teen pregnancy rate is around 95.46% (per 1,000 females ages 15 to 19)[1]

small point, but this is inconsistent - I suspect you mean 9.546%. a 95% teen pregnancy rate would be somewhat surprising ...

Here's the government data I referenced, I am using my specific hometown neighborhood zipcode "11717", it's 94.5% between 2006-2008.

http://www.health.ny.gov/funding/rfa/inactive/1007301230/att...

I believe the data, but the numbers given on that data sheet aren't percentages :-)

> Pregnancy rates are the number of pregnancies per 1,000 females age 15 to 19 years

95.46 pregnancies / 1000 females = 9.546%

(actually, you can't infer an exact percentage of girls who became pregnant from this statistic, as one female can have multiple pregnancies within a year, but you get what I mean)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_mil not "percent"

Good on you! The world needs more hard-working and passionate teachers.

FYI the University of Texas at Austin has a similar camp: First Bytes[1], which is free to attend if you get accepted.

[1] http://www.cs.utexas.edu/outreach/first-bytes

I've been teaching kids to code for over 10 years now. It's an exciting time to be a computer programming teacher. The amount of resources (mostly free) that make teaching young people computer programming easier and far more enjoyable have grown exponentially since I started teaching. The last two to three years in particular have seen an explosion of online education sites and materials.

Good post rebecca and nice job getting to the top page for hacker news!

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sweet article, thanks for the mention ;)

I'm getting a 404 on the article link, but this works: http://geekgirlweb.com/?p=9

Apologies, I switched servers last minute, so now we're back in business!

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