Give to the Max Day 2021
Give to the Max Day 2021 is Thursday, November 18.
This year, help CS&E support tomorrow’s leading programmers and problem solvers with a gift to Code the Gap.
Code the Gap is a University of Minnesota student group that partners with Twin Cities public middle and high schools to teach yearlong programming courses to girls and students from other underrepresented groups in computer science fields.
During its inaugural 2020-2021 school year, ten student volunteers from Code the Gap taught Python and other computing fundamentals twice a week over Zoom to students at the Community School of Excellence in St. Paul. This fall, the program has taken on 35 more volunteers, allowing the program to expand to a second partner school, Murray Middle School. Courses are now taught in-person, and the group is making plans to bring underrepresented students to the Twin Cities campus for coding classes, study sessions, hackathons, and visits from guest speakers who will share their stories about what led them to careers in STEM. Code the Gap also hopes to provide Chromebooks to students without access to a personal computer.
This Give to the Max Day, please consider supporting Code the Gap as they inspire a love of coding and problem solving in students who might otherwise feel shut out of a career in computer science or under-exposed to tech and STEM fields. Your gift to Code the Gap today will help cover the costs of the organization’s increased programming, including transportation fees to bring students to campus, the purchase and upkeep of hardware and classroom materials like Chromebooks and robotics kits, and costs associated with bringing speakers to campus and hosting other coding education events.
