Code.org

Code.org is a nonprofit dedicated to expanding access to computer science in schools and increasing participation by young women and students from other underrepresented groups. Our vision is that every student in every school has the opportunity to learn computer science as part of their core K-12 education.

Code.org intends to make the most significant impact through the following strategies:

1. Teacher Professional Learning. Code.org believes teacher professional learning (PL) in CS is the most effective way to build capacity for teachers to begin teaching CS in schools. Through our national network of Regional Partners, we provide K-12 with PL opportunities across our K-12 programs.

2. Curriculum. Our free curriculum programs across K-12 offers a sustainable approach to integrating CS education into schools. Classrooms can access our curriculum even if they don’t have a direct or formal partnership with Code.org.

3. Raising awareness. Code.org leads the global Hour of Code movement that seeks to introduce all students to CS through engaging tutorials. To date over 1 billion hours have been served globally.

4. Advocacy and coalition building. Through our work with legislators and through coalition building, our advocacy efforts support lasting changes for CS education.

The Code.org team is composed of leaders from tech, education, and the non-profit world. Our CEO, Hadi Partovi was part of the founding team of Tellme Networks, a voice-recognition startup, where he hired and managed a product team of 150 and helped grow revenues to $100M/year. Tellme Networks was acquired by Microsoft for approximately $850M. Hadi has served as an early advisor or investor at many tech startups including Facebook, Dropbox, Airbnb, and Uber. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Axon and Convoy. When Hadi founded Code.org, instead of hiring a professional manager he decided to run the organization full-time, shifting away from a very lucrative technology career to make computer science education his life mission. He has led Code.org throughout its 5 year history, establishing one of the largest and fastest-growing education movements in history.

Hadi and Code.org have received many awards in recognition of the impact of this work, including the Former Members of Congress Statesmanship Award, the Microsoft Alumni Foundation Integral Fellows Award, the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, the Common Sense Media 21st Century Learning Award, and the Techcrunch “Crunchies” Award for Social Impact.

The greater Code.org team includes engineers who have worked at Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and other notable companies, along with members of our curriculum, outreach, policy, and administrative teams who have experience in the K-12, university, industry, and non-profit worlds. The quality of our team and the work we do positions us to deliver on our goals.

So far, every project we’ve undertaken has become the most successful in its category:
When we launched the Hour of Code we aimed to reach 10M students. In the first week 20M participated. (6 years later, it’s 1B student served)
Each of our courses (CS Fundamentals, CS Discoveries, and CS Principles) has become the most popular in its category within 1 year of launch
We aimed to improve diversity in computer science. Our students are 45% female, 50% underrepresented groups -- significantly higher than historical participation
Our teacher training has become the largest program for CS teachers nationally with over 105,000 teachers served to date
Our advocacy team has helped 50/50 U.S. states establish policies to expand CS in schools.

Our effectiveness is partially because our team demands nothing short of success, but mostly because of the tremendous collaboration and support from teachers, schools, partners, donors, and politicians.

We are focused on continued growth across the US as well as expanding our programs globally.