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by EdJiang 4791 days ago
Having run almost a dozen hackathons for high school and college students, I'm not surprised at all to hear this story.

At our last CodeDay in Seattle, a 17-year old HS student built an app that's received over 175,000 downloads on Google Play. http://www.geekwire.com/2013/student-programmer-creates-succ...

We've run CodeDay in five cities so far, with 30-100 students attending each event. If anything, it's a good sign that we can change the culture at the high school level and get more students into technology.
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zachlatta 4791 days ago
Hey!

I went to the first CodeDay in LA a few weeks ago and it was quite fun! I'm looking forward to future CodeDays!

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EdJiang 4791 days ago
Awesome! Feel free to contact me or the local organizers if you want to help us host more of them!
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zachlatta 4791 days ago
Can you shoot me an email at zchlatta (at) gmail.com? I can't seem to find your email anywhere online.
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