Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who was a part of Virtual CodeDay this February 26-28. It was a wonderful experience to see thousands of students from 25+ countries come together to have fun, learn to code, and submit more than 130 projects. This was not only one of the best Virtual CodeDays […]

Applications for CodeDay Labs 2021 are officially open! We’ve made a number of changes from last year’s highly successful program that I’d like to share with you today. Whether you’re a returning mentor, or a student who didn’t get in last year who’s considering re-applying, get ready for an excellent summer! Bootcamp + Polish Weeks […]

Since CodeDay started in 2009, we’ve been able to help 56,000+ students find their place in tech at 480+ events all over the world. Many amazing partners help us make our events better, and today I’m excited to announce a new partnership for the upcoming Virtual CodeDay. Digi-Key is the place to go for anything […]

The software-for-nonprofits industry is far from a billion-dollar market, so most of what’s out there is pretty outdated and bad. Most nonprofits make up for it with lots of manual work. I have a background in technology as the former founder of a Y Combinator backed startup, so when I started working at CodeDay, one […]

CodeDay is a free weekend-long event for you to build your own tech project, like an app or game, with no programming experience required! We have a CodeDay coming up on December 4th, and I thought it would be good to make this post so everyone knows what to expect 🙂  The first part of […]

There’s always something exciting happening at CodeDay: last school year, almost 13,000 students worked on thousands of projects. On the other hand, like many non-profits without a budget for a web content team, our websites were infrequently updated with outdated information. This year we set out to fix that by populating most of our websites […]

I cannot figure out why this isn’t working! I sat at my desk going through a frustrating piece of CSS code. As a fresh graduate from college, I wanted to impress my team with my abilities. When my manager asked me to fix a CSS bug, I hadn’t worked on CSS before, but I thought […]

Disclaimer: Im no expert in programming. Im here to share my experience with programming, with the hope that this would help a few more beginners find their own path. Hi there, Im Mingjie, and Ive been working with CodeDay for almost three years! During the past three years of running events, mentoring students, and hearing […]

This is a guest post written by Tim Van Cleave, a CodeDay Labs advanced-track mentor from SPS Commerce. Working in the software industry means being adaptable, resilient, and interested in expanding your own horizons. It also means finding out your passions, both from a technology perspective and how and where you work. Do you feel […]

This is a guest post written by Caitlin Stanton, a CodeDay Labs beginner-track mentor from Cornell University My first taste of the tech world was in high school through a required Introduction to Computer Science course. That entire semester I was bored and listless, not fully able to grasp the power of programming without concrete […]