ANDERSON – It’s a midsummer afternoon at the Colts’ West 56th Street complex and 60 middle schoolers have crammed into a room for ... a youth reading initiative? A lecture on healthy eating habits? A flurry of football drills?
No. None of that. They’re here for a crash course in computer coding.
For the next six hours, those 60 students are introduced to a program that was developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Welcome to Coby’s Coding Camp.
One of the instructors wears his long hair past his shoulders. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University in Science, Technology and Society.