Bloomberg LP: CodeNow in a Box

Summer vacation is a great time for students to get out of their comfort zone, learn new things and get creative but it’s also a time when academic development declines. To prevent “the summer slide,” Bloomberg hosted 100 public high school students at its global headquarters in New York City for a three-day coding camp with CodeNow.

CodeNow is a free, out-of-school computer programming training organization that focuses on increasing the presence of underrepresented groups in the tech industry. CodeNow believes underrepresentation results from a lack of opportunity, and workshops such as CodeNow in a Box bridge this educational gap by exposing students to computer coding, critical thinking, and problem solving.

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