News coverage of Dragons Out

I'm happy and thankful for all the magazines, associations, conferences, websites etc. that have given coverage for the Dragons Out and the topic of Children learning software testing.

Here is the expanding list of that coverage (the public ones) and links to the articles and presentations.

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