Members of Texas PTA are invited to apply for a grant that includes hands-on training with Youth Code Jam and materials and activities needed to host their own Community Code Jams.

A pilot of Jam in the Box took place last year, resulting in 37 jams in 21 Texas cities with the same powerful outcomes as Youth Code Jam-run events.

Youth Code Jam receives a STEM Action grant from the Society for Science and the Public to eradicate barriers in learning to code and reduce the digital divide for families whose first language is not English.

In celebration of the opening of its Eastside Tech Hub, H-E-B honored Youth Code Jam with a $10,000 donation to support our work teaching kids to code in both San Antonio and Austin.

Want to introduce your child to computer programming. Check out the free resources on our website resource page first. Still want to spend money? Then, Youth Code Jam has crafted a gift guide just for you of our favorite tech toys, tools and gadgets.

Youth Code Jam is now a member in The CSforAll Consortium, a national collaborative of education providers, schools, funders, and researchers working to support the mission of expanding access to CS education for all students and to support student pathways to college and career success.

Join Youth Code Jam every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at Bibliotech for some free coding fun!

Computational Thinking is the thought process involved in formulating problems and their solutions so that the solutions are represented in a form that can be effectively carried out by an information-processing agent – human or machine. It’s a skill we work on a lot at Youth Code Jam.

Youth Code Jam is honored to be selected as Social Venture Partners San Antonio’s first project and to have this unique philanthropic organization join us on this journey over the next three years. SVPSA members have committed their knowledge, talent, experience and financial support to innovating with us.

Many schools are participating in the Hour of Code in December, but #CSEdWeek lasts all week long. So how do you extend the learning at home…especially if parents don’t know how to code? Here are Youth Code Jam’s top five picks for getting kids engaged in creative computing on the home front