The largest youth development organisation in the US, 4-H, is to get a $1.5m grant from Google to go towards creating an educational computer science programme. The organisation plans to roll out to 22 states and expand its current remit to cover coding and teamwork, targeting children with little access to technology. “Coding has become such a big part of our lives that we don’t even think about it anymore,” said Matt Jones, director of marketing at Google.
The largest youth development organisation in the US, 4-H, is to get a $1.5m grant from Google to go towards creating an educational computer science programme. The organisation plans to roll out to 22 states and expand its current remit to cover coding and teamwork, targeting children with little access to technology. The 4-H Computer Science Career Pathway will provide community educators with funding, training, curriculum and devices to teach around 100,000 young people how to use technology.