Announcement: CodeDay -- Explore Creative Interests and Get a Free Laptop!

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2023-02-27T07:41:36-08:00

CodeDay hosts weekend-long events for middle/high school students with existing creative interests – artists, musicians, writers, actors – and provides opportunities for them to explore how technology careers go hand-in-hand with creativity. Each event starts with students proposing their own app or game idea and then working in teams to create them, with the help of technology industry mentors. Despite having no prior interest in the tech field, 68% of past students are pursuing a tech-related career when surveyed six months later.

CodeDay is hosting their first event of the year at T-Mobile's headquarters in Newport, on March 11-12, and is offering the following:

Free tickets, which include food for the weekend.

Free transportation if needed, in partnership with Uber.

Free laptops (to keep!) for any students who don't have their own laptop at home.

This is a great opportunity particularly for students in introductory CS classes, or in an art/writing/music class who are excited to create their own video games or interactive novels. Students can register themselves on https://codeday.org/seattle with the promo code "RENTON". (They'll be asked about transportation and laptops after registering.)