Every student can learn to code

As a young non-profit with an ambitious mission, great connections and lots of support from partners and communities, we knew that the Hour of Code campaign would be a success. After all, we'd had thousands of teachers representing over 4 million students sign up to participate during Computer Science Education Week, December 9-15, 2013. We hoped that 5 million students would participate, maybe as many as 10 million (our pie-in-the-sky goal!).

We were incredibly pleased that the Hour of Code was an unqualified succees -- during CS Ed Week alone, 16 million students worldwide participated; approximately 75% were in the U.S. A welcome surprise was that 48% of the participants were GIRLS! In the ten weeks since the Hour of Code campaign was launched, we continue to add 1 million students a week (over 26 million at this point). 

To be clear: the Hour of Code wasn't designed to make all these students want to be computer scientists. It was just a taste that we hoped would begin to demystify computer science and engage students, parents and teachers in wanting more. And clamor for more they have! Over 11,000 teachers representing over 600,000 students have signed up to do the follow-on ~20 hour curriculum developed by Code.org and over 45,000 have already completed it. 

We're ecstatic about these outcomes and the progress we continue to make in developing our education programs for K-12 students.

Thank you for the support you have provided to Code.org to assist us in changing the perception of computer science education. We couldn't do it without you!

Links:

• Sign our petition to bring CS to more schools!