Our creative and fun programs get students excited about coding. With a presence in over 50 cities across North America, five series of events a year, and nearly 10 years of history, we've gotten to make an impact on tens of thousands of students lives. And now, with your help, even more.
(...even when it's hard.) Parents and administrators are important stakeholders we'll consider, but people have catered to their wants for decades. We are a voice for the students. We obsess over what students want (or don't yet know they want). Serving students is the lifeblood of our organization.
We're radically rethinking what education can be, to build a new system for our new era. We strive to start with students' needs and work backward rather than thinking about how to build on the framework we have now.
We're united by a passion to learn and grow, both as individuals and as an organization. We share and celebrate these learnings with each other regularly.
The best ideas come from the new perspective brought by a volunteer speaking up at a meeting, or a 3 am conversation with a CodeDay attendee. We make it a point to seek out new ideas and facilitate newcomers speaking up.
Good process is a mechanism to become an incredible company at scale; bad process is bureaucracy. When we see a bad process, we take ownership to improve or remove it. We try to keep the decision-making power in the hands of those who are doing the work.
It's easy to get people to like you with enough money and status, but in the long run, we'll have 100x the impact by solving problems with resourcefulness and authentic human connection.
We're (at least) as fun and playful as the students we serve. Even when we're creating a spreadsheet or organizing a staff meeting, we don't take ourselves too seriously.
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