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January 18, 2012 05:12 am GMT

Codecademy and The White House Announce Code Summer Plus Youth Program

Codecademy Code Summer PlusToday, Codecademy in conjunction with The White House announced a new program to educate the country's youth: Code Summer Plus. The announcement was made at an event held by Twilio and hosted by United States CTO Aneesh Chopra. There, Codecademy's founder Zach Sims explained that as part of Obama's larger Summer Jobs Plus initiative,Code Summer Plus will offer a "condensed version of our curriculum and get [youth] on track to become engineers." Additionally, partners including Foursquare, Twilio, and any other company can work with Codecademyto create lessons that will be distributed to the kids.

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