Hadi PartoviVerified account

Our classrooms are 45% women, 48% students of color because of so many efforts combining and collaborating.

FYI 9M is counting registered accounts (Half just past school year alone). Tens millions more have tried http://Code.org .

However, most of that is K-8. We can all work together on bridge to high school, where the numbers drop. And federal funding will help

Well...here's the reason why the #s drop in high school which ALL of those afterschool orgs serving girls or students of color know

The participation of girls in #STEM topics falls off a cliff after middle school. The body of research is fairly dense in this area.

Adding curriculum in schools focused on coding will not alleviate this reality. But I think afterschool programs such as BGC, Technovation,

Girls Who Code, CodeNow, Techbridge, Hidden Genius and others fill this gap well where schools still fail these students.

In my humble opinion "your" sweet spot is indeed K-8 because that's actually where in school educational involvement is most equitable