CodeDay

CodeDay (formerly StudentRND or SRND) is a non-profit organization which promotes STEM education for high school and college students.

CodeDay
MottoThere's a place in tech for everyone.
Formation2009[1]
Type501(c)(3) non-profit[2]
Registration no.26-4742589
PurposeSTEM Education
HeadquartersSeattle, Washington
Location
Region served
US
Official language
English, Spanish
Origin
Sammamish, Washington
Executive Director
Tyler Menezes
Founder
Edward Jiang
Board of Directors
Charlie Kindel, Christy Wilson, Tyler Menezes, Zaq Wiedmann, Bob Crimmins
Budget
$300,000[3]
Staff
8[4]
Volunteers
82
WebsiteCodeDay website
Formerly called
StudentRND, SRND

The organization is headquartered in Seattle, Washington and runs several programs for 55,000 students in 50 cities around the world,[5] focusing on new programmers from diverse backgrounds. They run several programs, but are best known for the eponymous 24-hour coding event, CodeDay.[6][7]

History

CodeDay was founded in 2009 by Edward Jiang[8] as Student Research and Development (which is still the organization's legal name),[9] and was initially a makerspace for students and high school accelerator,[10] helping to start several successful companies.[11][12][13][14][15][16] The early days of the organization were profiled in the book, Be a Changemaker: How to Start Something That Matters.[17]

The original mission of CodeDay was to "create the next generation of technologists" through makerspaces,[18] however CodeDay closed its makerspace in 2013, citing lack of attendance and high costs, and began focusing entirely on CodeDay.[19]

Around the same time, CodeDay adopted its current mission of "increasing Computer Science enrollment nationwide", as well as focusing on attracting diverse students. Despite this focus on diversity, it does not promote to any single demographic, reporting a combined diversity of 68% women, low-income, African American, and Latino students (compared to the industry norm of 14%).[20] [21]

As of 2020, 36,594 students without experience had taken part in CodeDay's programs, and 25,681 continued to code.[20]

CodeDay (event)

CodeDay February 2012

CodeDay started its core event program in 2012,[22] a series of 24-hour programming competitions run across the US every few months, usually on long weekends.[23]

CodeDay is currently hosted in 48 cities,[20] focusing on regions without robust tech sectors.[24] All cities run CodeDays simultaneously, and are hosted at local tech companies or co-working spaces, and funded by local donations, sponsorships,[25] and a $10 entrance fee, which some consider controversial.[26]

Events are 24-hours-long with pitches at the beginning and presentations at the end. Many students do not sleep and program for the entire event.[27] During the events, there are workshops on various subjects, as well as a CTF called CodeCup. Many students who attend CodeDay have little or no experience before attending.[28] The goal of CodeDay is to get these students to continue to pursue Computer Science after they leave.

In response to COVID-19, CodeDay began hosting online CodeDay events in April 2020, called Virtual CodeDay. [29]

CodeDay Locations [30]
Location Active
New York No (Impacted by COVID)
Georgia
El Paso
Erie
Birmingham
New Hampshire
Phoenix
Virginia
Minneapolis-St. Paul
Baltimore
Valdez
Anchorage
Boston
New Jersey
Philadelphia
DC
Boca Raton
Orlando
Columbia
Pittsburgh
Toronto
Detroit
Dayton
Nashville
Wisconsin
Chicago
Bloomington-Normal
St. Louis
Iowa
Omaha
Kansas City
Houston
Austin
Dallas
Colorado
Yuma
Tucson
Flagstaff
Salt Lake City
Las Vegas
Sacramento
San Diego
Los Angeles
SF Bay Area
Corvallis
Portland
Seattle
Vancouver

CodeDay Labs

In 2013 CodeDay launched a summer program called StudentRND Labs which taught students skills of entrepreneurship.[31][32] In 2017 the organization relaunched the Labs program as an entirely online program with focused on technology education and providing an experience similar to an internship. [33] CodeDay Labs partnered with Kevin Wang in 2020 to increase the quality and scale of the program, as a result of many internships being canceled from COVID-19.[34]

As of 2020 the CodeDay Labs program comprised mentored work on an open-source project as well as online workshops and practice interview sessions. The program runs throughout July, and students are not paid for the experience, unlike many internships in the technology industry. [33]

Other Programs

CodeDay also runs several other programs:

  • a computer science fair with workshops and demonstrations called CS Fairs [20]
  • cybersecurity and data science challenges for schools [35][36][37]
  • an online community for students

References

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  10. "A think space for student scientists". Bellevue Reporter. 2012-02-14. Retrieved 2017-07-21.
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  14. Soper, Taylor (February 26, 2013). "StudentRND members launch Kickstarter for radiation detector, raise $13K in one week". Retrieved 2013-02-28.
  15. Cook, John (March 29, 2012). "Y Combinator for high-school kids? It's students only at this new startup incubator". GeekWire. Retrieved 2013-02-19.
  16. Tom, Mikey (August 23, 2012). "Meet the 7 startup teams in StudentRND's summer incubator". GeekWire. Retrieved 2013-02-19.
  17. "Be a Changemaker". Simon and Schuster. 2014-09-01. Retrieved 2017-07-21.
  18. Laurie Ann Thompson (16 September 2014). Be a Changemaker: How to Start Something That Matters. Simon and Schuster. p. 143. ISBN 978-1-58270-465-4.
  19. "Space; Moving On". Medium. 2013-11-26.
  20. "CodeDay". codeday.org. Retrieved 2020-09-12.
  21. "Tech: Where the women and minorities aren't". USA Today. 2014-08-15. Retrieved 2016-04-29.
  22. "Meet Sidebar: Student programmer creates popular Android app at CodeDay Seattle". Geekwire. 2013-04-23. Retrieved 2017-07-21.
  23. Palmer, Kyle (April 30, 2012). "Watch Out Silicon Valley: Here Come the Tinkering Teens". NPR. Retrieved 2013-02-19.
  24. "Coding marathon draws good turnout in Corvallis". Corvallis Gazette-Times. January 20, 2014. Retrieved 2014-02-03.
  25. Managan, Megan (December 19, 2011). "Teenagers launch technology non-profit". Sound Publishing. Retrieved 2013-02-19.
  26. Tess Rinearson [@_tessr] (12 December 2012). "@EdwardStarcraft Pay to hack?! :(" (Tweet) via Twitter.
  27. Sharify, John (February 25, 2013). "Students in Code Heaven at CodeDay". King5. Retrieved 2013-02-28.
  28. "Students Prepare For 24-Hour Code-A-Thon In Alpharetta". Patch. 2017-05-11. Retrieved 2017-07-21.
  29. "Virtual CodeDay". Virtual CodeDay. Retrieved 2020-09-12.
  30. "CodeDay". CodeDay. Retrieved 2020-09-12.
  31. "GeekWire Summit: StudentRND projects offer a glimpse of the future". GeekWire. 2013-09-05. Retrieved 2020-09-12.
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  33. "CodeDay Labs". CodeDay Labs. Retrieved 2020-09-12.
  34. "Virtual internships: Tech companies and students adjust as pandemic forces remote experience". GeekWire. 2020-06-04. Retrieved 2020-09-12.
  35. "Education". CodeDay. Retrieved 2020-09-12.
  36. "Inspiring the Next Generation in Cybersecurity at CodeDay". Splunk-Blogs. Retrieved 2020-09-12.
  37. "SRND Partners With Splunk to Train Students in Cybersecurity". PRWeb. Retrieved 2020-09-12.
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