… Hadi and Ali Partovi, who launched Code.org and donated $1 million each to the organization. Code.org advocates that “every student in every school should have the opportunity to learn to code.” Since its launch, 3.5 million students have participated in Code.org’s online courses and 13,000 schools have reached out to Code.org for help in building computer science curriculum.
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