Getting teens – and in particular, young women – interested in coding is a challenge a number of companies and organizations today have been tackling in recent years. But a newer startup called ...

Women face obstacles in the male-dominated field of computer technology, but new initiatives are teaching girls to write computer programs. One online application, from a startup called Vidcode, is ...

I love stories that have unexpected beginnings. Alexandra Diracles and Melissa Halfon met at Startup Weekend EDU in New York City this past January. They left with a first place winning prototype and ...

VIDCODE, a New York-based startup that lets children code special effects on their own photos and videos, has raised $1.5 million in a seed round. Investors include ZhenFund, Rethink Education, Y ...

Vidcode, a Y Combinator-backed startup focused on teaching teens how to code, has raised $1.5 million in seed funding for its curriculum. While there are a number of learn-to-code platforms out there ...

During this time, Vidcode would like to support schools in any way they can. As such, they are offering their full coding platform and research-backed computer science curriculum for free to help ...

INTEL-LIGENT TOOLS: This week’s tools are just hatched from the first cohort of companies to go through Intel’s Accelerator. Privacy flag: WordsU, Griti and ...

Vidcode, a recent Y-Combinator inductee that teaches girls to code, has made a point from the start of tying its lessons to the social media platforms that teens and tweens love. Since its founding ...

Ninth grader Emma Farrell never imagined that she would be interested in computer science. “I didn’t think coding was something I wanted to pursue because I like drawing and photography, not making ...