Coding is a serious need for students in the United States. By 2020, one million computing jobs will go unfilled in the United States due to a lack of appropriate preparation of our future workforce. Right now, students are graduating from excellent universities without the ability to obtain positions that utilize their expertise, yet someone who graduates from college with a computer science degree is very likely to obtain a desirable and high earning position immediately.
The White House is well aware of this. Recently, President Barack Obama honored a teenager working hard to inspire more young girls to code. The Washington Post took a look at this in a recent article titled “White House honors teenager who inspires girls to do computer coding.” T Rees Shapiro of the Washington Post writes, “Swetha Prabakaran dreamed of becoming a physician, using the power of medicine to heal the sick and to are for the ailing. She studied biology in middle school, but the course of her life changed during her freshman year at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, in Virginia. She took an introductory class on computer science and learned about programming, becoming fascinated with coding and the intricacies of how to teach computers to make life easier for people. ‘I learned I could help people in the same way with computers and not just a stethoscope,’ said Swetha, 15, a junior from Ashburn, Va. Earlier this month, Swetha was honored at the White House as one of 11 young women named ‘champions of change,’ for her work as the founder of Everybody Code Now! The nonprofit operates in 12 states and has partnerships in India and Ghana to help elementary school students, from kindergarten through fifth grade, learn how to code. According to a White House statement, the Champions of Change program ‘was created as an opportunity for the White House to feature individuals doing extraordinary things to empower and inspire members of their communities.’”
At CodeRev Kids, we understand the potential for empowerment that coding and tech careers can offer to communities. We customize our lessons to serve all students, no matter their level of expertise.
Our lessons focus on computational thinking, which encompasses a wide variety of programming languages. In addition to being highly informative, our lessons put an emphasis on fun. As a result, our students stay engaged and internalize coding concepts and creativity in the process.
If you want to give your child a quality coding education, your best bet is CodeRev Kids!