As the 2015 Pearson Student Coding Contest entry deadline draws near (tomorrow night at Midnight MST), I find myself wishing as an employee that I could join the contest. I have cool ideas for learning apps too!

Quickly coming to a close this week, the 2015 Pearson Student Coding Contest will award Acclaim participant badges to all entrants whose idea submissions are accepted! And those who take 1st, 2nd and 3rd place will receive special individualized Acclaim digital badges. But what does that mean?

As part of the strategy to merge Pearson APIs to a single platform, the Financial Times (FT) education APIs (http://developer.pearson.com/apis/ft-education-api)  will no longer be available on the Pearson Developers Network (PDN) after December 31st, 2015. 

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Halloween is one my favorite holidays and not because of the candy or the scares! It's because Halloween is an odd holiday that focuses on creativity! Unlike many other holidays, which focus on commercialism, Halloween challenges folks to come up with new and different ideas. My own daughter has been creating Halloween costumes on the sewing machine since she was old enough to write and created this great "Robin" costume from scratch, along with several other SuperHero costumes that she made for friends.

Because of some web site glitches (Perhaps we could use a little coding help!), we are extending the entry deadline for the 2015 Pearson Student Coding Contest to midnight Eastern Standard Time (EST) on Friday, November 13th, 2015!

In its fourth year, Financial Times kicked off Digital Learning Week in London with a coding session in tribute to the "mother" of coding, Ada Lovelace.

Time is running out! Be eligible to win $5000, $2500, $1000 or a chance at an Internship!

This is a great piece written by Caroline Miller, Managing Editor at Pearson. It provides perspective on the value of working on projects, like the student coding contest, where students can learn new skills and gain valuable real-world experience working collaboratively with peers.