2016 – Present
Our History
What started as an idea became a pilot. That pilot became a program. That program had a pivot. And now that pivot has transformed into a national movement to invest in and accelerate the career trajectories of thousands of historically underestimated high school students across the country.
Today
Program Shift
- Relaunched in-person programming to serve more students directly and within their communities
- Refocused program model to focus on high school internship placement and success as the main driver and lever for impact in the STEM career competency and candidacy for each student
- Staff: 20
- Students served: 800+ as of June 2023
- Interns placed: 125
2021 - 2022
National Scale
- Scaled programming to and placed interns from over 20 cities nationally including Detroit, New York, New Haven, Houston, Dallas and Cincinnati
- Developed first extension curricula including Mobile Development, Embedded Systems and Game Development
- Staff: 20
- 1273 Students served
- 139 Interns placed
2020 - 2021
Virtual
- Successfully implemented fully-remote program model and scaled to several pilot regions including Philadelphia, Denver and Charlotte
- Placed second class of entirely virtual high school interns. Received manager feedback that over 85% of interns would be rehired.
- Staff: 6
- 670 Students served
- 60 Interns placed
2019 - 2020
Regional Scale
- Scaled programming to a dozen schools in Austin, TX and placed first Mobile Development intern
- Reengaged over 80% of students impacted by COVID-19 lockdown. Placed first class of entirely virtual interns at 10 companies nationwide
- Hired interns impacted by COVID-19 offer rescissions by launching first internal remote internship program in partnership with Intel: Code2College Labs
- Staff: 4
- 457 Students served
- 17 Interns placed
2018 - 2019
Full Cohort
- Scaled programming to eight schools and placed with five new Visionary Partners including our first hardware partner
- Experimented with first Data Science curriculum
- Staff: 1.5
- 253 Students served
- 24 Interns placed
2017 - 2018
Half Cohort
- Scaled programming to five schools and placed with four new Visionary Partners.
- Developed first STEM case competition focused on Semiconductor industry
- Staff: 1
- 65 Students served
- 9 Interns placed
2016 - 2017
Pilot
- Program launched in 2016
- Secured first Visionary Partnership with Indeed!
- Staff: 1
- 30 Students served
- 2 Interns placed