# Microsoft: Make 11-Year-Olds 'Future Ready' With Minecraft Python Hour of Code

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**Created:** [November 10, 2020, 5:13pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/microsoft-make-11-year-olds-future-ready-with-minecraft-python-hour-of-code/162067 "2020-11-10T17:13:52Z")\
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[theodp](https://news.slashdot.org/~theodp) writes:

_The upcoming “[Hack the Classroom: STEM Edition](https://educationblog.microsoft.com/en-us/2020/10/help-your-students-grow-future-ready-skills-with-hack-the-classroom-stem-edition/),” Microsoft explains, “is a [3-day] free virtual event series designed for K-12 educators, parents, and guardians. The sessions will feature resources and tutorials to help educators support students in learning future-ready skills. These lessons can be easily incorporated into classroom curriculum while preparing for this year’s [Hour of Code](https://hourofcode.com/us) event – a global effort to teach and demystify coding, during Computer Science Education Week, December 7-13.”_

 

_Microsoft has boasted that the Hour of Code [enabled it to reach tens of millions of schoolchildren](https://news.slashdot.org/story/17/11/18/2123214/microsoft-debuts-minecraft-themed-coding-tutorial) each year with its drag-and-drop Minecraft-themed tutorials. New for middle and high schoolers this year is the Minecraft Python Hour of Code, which presumably taps into the just-released [Python Content for Minecraft: Education Edition](https://educationblog.microsoft.com/en-us/2020/10/new-ways-to-code-introducing-python-content-for-minecraft-education-edition/) (sample [Python 101 Lesson](https://education.minecraft.net/lessons/python-101-lesson-1)). The Hour of Code is run by [Microsoft-funded Code.org](https://code.org/about/donors), whose [Board of Directors](https://code.org/about/leadership) include Microsoft President Brad Smith._