Kelaylah McAlpin gets help from teacher Robert Winter during coding class at Carter Middle School Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017. Knox County Schools is pushing to get more students coding and has developed a dedicated computer science curriculum.Students from Knox County Schools and Oak Ridge City Schools officially hold the world record for the largest computer programming lesson.
Nearly 6,800 students from the two school districts joined together in November to break the record, though it was only recently certified by Guinness World Records, according to a news release Monday from Knox County Schools.
The previous record was about 1,000 students.
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