Akos Ledeczi

  • Vanderbilt University

    Team from Vanderbilt’s LIVE Initiative advances to finals of NSF challenge to improve K-12 learning outcomes

    By Jenna Somers A trans-institutional team from the LIVE Initiative at Vanderbilt University has progressed to the final round of the National Science Foundation’s Visionary Interdisciplinary Teams Advancing Learning (VITAL) Prize Challenge for designing BeatBlox, a music-based framework for teaching computer science. The team, Code to Joy, includes… Read More

    Dec. 4, 2023

  • Vanderbilt University

    Interdisciplinary team develops open-access computer programming course for high school teachers

    By Jenna Somers A trans-institutional team from the LIVE Initiative at Vanderbilt University has progressed to the final round of the National Science Foundation’s Visionary Interdisciplinary Teams Advancing Learning (VITAL) Prize Challenge for designing BeatBlox, a music-based framework for teaching computer science. The team, Code to Joy, includes… Read More

    Nov. 3, 2023

  • Vanderbilt University

    Mobile app for NetsBlox designed by CS grad students wins award

    By Jenna Somers A trans-institutional team from the LIVE Initiative at Vanderbilt University has progressed to the final round of the National Science Foundation’s Visionary Interdisciplinary Teams Advancing Learning (VITAL) Prize Challenge for designing BeatBlox, a music-based framework for teaching computer science. The team, Code to Joy, includes… Read More

    Feb. 9, 2022

  • Vanderbilt University

    Vanderbilt-developed gunshot detection technology leads to arrest in Las Vegas shooting

    By Jenna Somers A trans-institutional team from the LIVE Initiative at Vanderbilt University has progressed to the final round of the National Science Foundation’s Visionary Interdisciplinary Teams Advancing Learning (VITAL) Prize Challenge for designing BeatBlox, a music-based framework for teaching computer science. The team, Code to Joy, includes… Read More

    Jan. 10, 2022

  • Vanderbilt University

    Ndukaife, Wilson win a Chancellor’s Award for Research at 2021 Fall Faculty Assembly

    By Jenna Somers A trans-institutional team from the LIVE Initiative at Vanderbilt University has progressed to the final round of the National Science Foundation’s Visionary Interdisciplinary Teams Advancing Learning (VITAL) Prize Challenge for designing BeatBlox, a music-based framework for teaching computer science. The team, Code to Joy, includes… Read More

    Aug. 26, 2021

  • Vanderbilt University

    Vanderbilt engineers extend popular online MATLAB course into a new series

    By Jenna Somers A trans-institutional team from the LIVE Initiative at Vanderbilt University has progressed to the final round of the National Science Foundation’s Visionary Interdisciplinary Teams Advancing Learning (VITAL) Prize Challenge for designing BeatBlox, a music-based framework for teaching computer science. The team, Code to Joy, includes… Read More

    Sep. 15, 2020

  • Vanderbilt University

    Software suite expedites reproducible computer simulations

    By Jenna Somers A trans-institutional team from the LIVE Initiative at Vanderbilt University has progressed to the final round of the National Science Foundation’s Visionary Interdisciplinary Teams Advancing Learning (VITAL) Prize Challenge for designing BeatBlox, a music-based framework for teaching computer science. The team, Code to Joy, includes… Read More

    Jul. 8, 2020

  • Vanderbilt University

    New interdisciplinary initiative recasts computers as classroom partners

    By Jenna Somers A trans-institutional team from the LIVE Initiative at Vanderbilt University has progressed to the final round of the National Science Foundation’s Visionary Interdisciplinary Teams Advancing Learning (VITAL) Prize Challenge for designing BeatBlox, a music-based framework for teaching computer science. The team, Code to Joy, includes… Read More

    Nov. 18, 2019

  • Vanderbilt University

    Schmidt, Ledeczi named to provost Online Education Committee

    By Jenna Somers A trans-institutional team from the LIVE Initiative at Vanderbilt University has progressed to the final round of the National Science Foundation’s Visionary Interdisciplinary Teams Advancing Learning (VITAL) Prize Challenge for designing BeatBlox, a music-based framework for teaching computer science. The team, Code to Joy, includes… Read More

    Aug. 6, 2019

  • Vanderbilt University

    CPS summer camps offer teachers, young learners a dive into cybersecurity

    By Jenna Somers A trans-institutional team from the LIVE Initiative at Vanderbilt University has progressed to the final round of the National Science Foundation’s Visionary Interdisciplinary Teams Advancing Learning (VITAL) Prize Challenge for designing BeatBlox, a music-based framework for teaching computer science. The team, Code to Joy, includes… Read More

    Aug. 2, 2019