23 min

Teaching Kids to Code During a Pandemic: Code Your Dream's Founder Brianne Caplan Restarting America

    • Entrepreneurship

In this episode of Restarting America, Jeremy Greenberg from 97 Switch interviews Brianne Caplan, the Founder and Executive Director of Code Your Dreams, a nonprofit that empowers youth to innovate community solutions through code. Throughout the interview, they discuss the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on business and society. Caplan shares how the current health pandemic has affected her nonprofit and how she is adapting to new circumstances.

Earlier this year, Caplan founded CoderHeroes, a coding program for children with a buy-1-give-1 charitable model to support Code Your Dreams students throughout the pandemic. As a former Data Scientist and Program Director for the University of Chicago's Careers in Computer Science program, she has a passion for giving every student the technical skills and inspiration to create the change they wish to see in the world.

In this episode of Restarting America, Jeremy Greenberg from 97 Switch interviews Brianne Caplan, the Founder and Executive Director of Code Your Dreams, a nonprofit that empowers youth to innovate community solutions through code. Throughout the interview, they discuss the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on business and society. Caplan shares how the current health pandemic has affected her nonprofit and how she is adapting to new circumstances.

Earlier this year, Caplan founded CoderHeroes, a coding program for children with a buy-1-give-1 charitable model to support Code Your Dreams students throughout the pandemic. As a former Data Scientist and Program Director for the University of Chicago's Careers in Computer Science program, she has a passion for giving every student the technical skills and inspiration to create the change they wish to see in the world.

23 min