LITTLE ROCK – The Arkansas Department of Education (ADE) Office of Computer Science is pleased to announce a new program, "Read, Code, Create" for middle school students and teachers across the state. This program was developed collaboratively with CSforAR, R.I.S.E. Arkansas, AR STEM, and G.U.I.D.E for Life. Each 6th-grade building is sending a teacher to the provided training and will receive a classroom set of "My Life As a Coder." Teachers attending the training will also receive hands-on experiences in content integration through reading, coding, and creating. In addition, teachers will have access to check-out a classroom set of coding devices.