Coding Meets the Court: High Schoolers Explore Tech Through “Code the Game”
What does coding have to do with basketball? As our high school participants are discovering, quite a lot!
This fall, Girls Inc. of Alameda County high schoolers are participating in Code the Game: Tech Exposure & Access Through Mentorship (TEAM), a six-week program that uses basketball to introduce 10th–12th graders to coding, data, and technology.
Code the Game provides our students an opportunity to expand on foundational coding skills, forged during our middle school Build IT curriculum, and see how they can be applied in a real-world setting.
Throughout the program, participants learn coding fundamentals, explore sports data and analytics, and use real basketball statistics to examine player performance and practice their coding skills. Along the way, they see firsthand how technology intersects with an industry they already know and enjoy, and the range of careers that can grow from those skills and interests.
On Friday, that learning transitioned to Ballhalla when participants attended a Golden State Valkyries game. Our students had the opportunity to look behind the scenes and learn about the technology behind the game-day experience.
Rakuten’s funding to TEAM made this all-girls Code the Game cohort possible. We’re grateful to our longtime partner Rakuten for supporting this opportunity for our students and to TEAM for delivering the six-week program.
Your support helps us create more opportunities for young people to build STEAM skills and explore where those skills can take them.
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