The Communities Code initiative has garnered university outreach awards for the last four years, and its founders say the program boosts not only kids鈥 tech skills but also their self-esteem.
Alex Wolf-Root, a former collegiate track athlete pursuing a PhD in philosophy at CU Boulder, first got the idea to create a course melding philosophy and sports following a conversation about 鈥淒eflategate.鈥
He鈥檚 a competitive pistol shooter who spends much of his free time roaming the wilds of Wyoming. And he has thousands of followers on YouTube, where he regales followers with tales of Nordic heroes in a dulcet baritone.
It鈥檚 a fair bet that most students would be happy with, say, a 95 or 97 percent on a test, or professors with a 95 percent approval in student evaluations. Academic advisors certainly are.