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They were children when the Iranians Hadi and Ali Partovi fled the revolution in their country and settled in the US.
Despite their limited resources, they formed and founded a company that they eventually sold to Microsoft for $800 million... to pursue philanthropy.
This is how Code.org was born in 2013, a free platform that wants all the kids in the world to learn computational language.
Inspired by the death of Steve Jobs in 2011, the Partovi brothers called their Silicon Valley friends like
Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg
, among others, with whom they released a video. A week later they had already received 15,000 calls from US schools and the support of then President Barack Obama (then Donald Trump and Joe Biden joined). Its success is resounding:
60 million students from all over the world
and two million teachers have an account on the largest educational programming platform in the world.
Now it lands in Spain as a gateway to Europe, led by Fran García del Pozo, director of Code.org for Europe, Africa and the Middle East. “
The Partovi realized that the economy is global and digital
and that is why it is important to align training with employment,” he says. «It is not about all children learning to program, but that they understand programming and can compete in the 21st century, because it is a cross-cutting competition for all professions. In addition, computational thinking develops the acquisition of skills such as logic, creativity, critical thinking and problem solving.
García del Pozo presented the project to Queen Letizia, as well as to President Pedro Sánchez and Education Minister Pilar Alegría.
He also contacted prominent businessmen such as the president of Telefónica, José María Álvarez-Pallete, technological entrepreneurs and journalists such as
Sonsoles Ónega, Ana Pastor and Susanna Griso.
“With them we will campaign to eliminate the information gap in our society,” says García Pozo.
«82% of Spanish families do not know what computer science is and the importance it will have on their children's employability».
assures Garcia del Pozo.
In a decade 100 million Chinese will be experts in programming and robotics
This former Telefónica executive is aware that in our country there is still a long way to go: in the US, programming is part of the curriculum from an early age, while China has a plan for all children to study programming from the age of six. «
Within 10 years, 100 million Chinese are going to be programming and robotics machines
. This really is the most widely spoken language in the world and we can't afford to be late like we were with English."
In Spain, Code.org already has 865,000 student accounts and 30,000 teacher accounts.
The platform offers content for children between the ages of 4 and 18, with free courses translated into more than 70 languages.
His objective of Code.org is that computer science is integrated into the Spanish curriculum as a subject from Primary.
“The question is not whether our children are going to have to know how to program, it is what their future is going to be like if they do not know how to do it, because everything is going to be governed by technology”, concludes García del Pozo
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