Should Your Child Learn to Code? A CS Roadmap for G5–G8 in the AI Era
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Join Crimson Rise Senior Director Cassidy Goldblatt in conversation with Capstone Mentor Carlos R. on what prepares G5–G8 students for CS in the age of AI.
In this webinar, you’ll learn:
- Whether computer science is still worth pursuing when AI can write code — and the three foundations (math, engineering, physics) that make the field durable
- The skills that matter more than any programming language — logical thinking, systems thinking, and problem-solving — and how to build them starting in G5
- A real student capstone project, from first idea to finished output — what “AI + coding” looks like in practice, not in theory
- A live Q&A with Cassidy Goldblatt (Senior Director, Crimson Rise) and Carlos R., a software engineer with decades of experience in the field
Our Speakers


Cassidy G.
Senior Director, Crimson Rise
Cassidy holds a B.M. from the University of Michigan and an M.M. from The Boston Conservatory at Berklee. With over five years helping students discover their interests and shape their communities, she has guided students into Johns Hopkins, Cornell, Vanderbilt, Notre Dame, Emory, UC Berkeley, Georgetown, and USC.


Carlos R.
Capstone Mentor, Crimson Rise
Carlos holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University (Dean's List) and got his start with model rocketry and assembly-language game programming as a teenager. With an entrepreneurial, hands-on approach, he has founded multiple companies — including a platform serving 30,000+ users — and guided students through 1,000+ mentoring sessions with Crimson, building real projects from drone systems to AI-powered applications.


Cassidy G.
Senior Director, Crimson Rise
Cassidy holds a B.M. from the University of Michigan and an M.M. from The Boston Conservatory at Berklee. With over five years helping students discover their interests and shape their communities, she has guided students into Johns Hopkins, Cornell, Vanderbilt, Notre Dame, Emory, UC Berkeley, Georgetown, and USC.


Carlos R.
Capstone Mentor, Crimson Rise
Carlos holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University (Dean's List) and got his start with model rocketry and assembly-language game programming as a teenager. With an entrepreneurial, hands-on approach, he has founded multiple companies — including a platform serving 30,000+ users — and guided students through 1,000+ mentoring sessions with Crimson, building real projects from drone systems to AI-powered applications.
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