How CS Students Go From Code.org Into Its Founders' Mentorship/Angel Investment Fund, 'Neo' (twitter.com) 14
The VC fund Neo "identifies awesome young engineers, includes them in a community of tech veterans, and invests in companies they start or join,"
TechCrunch explained in 2018.
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp notes that Neo is also benefiting from the education non-profit Code.org: Eleven years ago, Neo Founder and CEO Ali Partovi together with twin brother Hadi (Code.org CEO and a Neo investor) publicly launched the nonprofit Code.org (backed and advised by big tech companies). With the support of prominent tech giant leaders and their companies, Code.org pushed coding into K-12 classrooms (NYT, alt.) and now boasts that "591,636 teachers have signed up to teach our intro courses on Code Studio and 19,177,297 students are enrolled," helping to build a pipeline of "college students who excel at CS". Neo taps into this pipeline, and it looks like others also betting on their success include Neo investors tied to Microsoft, Google, Meta, Amazon, and Uber — including Code.org boosters Bill Gates, Satya Nadella, Reid Hoffman, Jeff Wilke, Sheryl Sandberg, Eric Schmidt.
"I love meeting more and more @Neo founders and Neo scholar candidates who learned to code on Code.org," Neo CEO Ali Partovi tweeted last summer.
in November Partovi welcomed "32 exceptional CS students" chosen from over 1,000 applicants to be Neo Scholars, "a year-long program of events, trips, and mentorship, as well as long-term membership in our community."
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp notes that Neo is also benefiting from the education non-profit Code.org: Eleven years ago, Neo Founder and CEO Ali Partovi together with twin brother Hadi (Code.org CEO and a Neo investor) publicly launched the nonprofit Code.org (backed and advised by big tech companies). With the support of prominent tech giant leaders and their companies, Code.org pushed coding into K-12 classrooms (NYT, alt.) and now boasts that "591,636 teachers have signed up to teach our intro courses on Code Studio and 19,177,297 students are enrolled," helping to build a pipeline of "college students who excel at CS". Neo taps into this pipeline, and it looks like others also betting on their success include Neo investors tied to Microsoft, Google, Meta, Amazon, and Uber — including Code.org boosters Bill Gates, Satya Nadella, Reid Hoffman, Jeff Wilke, Sheryl Sandberg, Eric Schmidt.
"I love meeting more and more @Neo founders and Neo scholar candidates who learned to code on Code.org," Neo CEO Ali Partovi tweeted last summer.
in November Partovi welcomed "32 exceptional CS students" chosen from over 1,000 applicants to be Neo Scholars, "a year-long program of events, trips, and mentorship, as well as long-term membership in our community."
Putting their money where their mouth is (Score:2)
They clearly believe their education efforts will pay off, and are investing money to prove it. I like it!
It's easy (Score:2)
First, they undergo anesthesia where control slots are surgically embedded in the back of their necks. Then they are placed in a pod filled with a gel-like substance. Cabling is connected to the control slots which then feed a life-like simulation to the participant as well as life-sustaining nutrients.
At some point they are woken up and shown the reality of their situation. Their unbridled dismay at being the subject of a science experiment leads them to a life of mutinous rebellion where they hone thei
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White House: Computer Science is for Everyone! [archives.gov] Microsoft: Computer science is for everyone. [microsoft.com] Code.org: Computer Science Is For Everyone. [avc.com]
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Re:Code.org discriminates against boys (Score:4, Insightful)
Code.org fined teachers for teaching boys.
Citation needed.
I am extremely skeptical that Code.org has the authority to fine public employees.
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It seems the poster was referring to Code.org: More Money For CS Instructors Who Teach More Girls [slashdot.org], in which case 'penalized' or 'disincentivized' would be more appropriate word choices. Btw, the College Board continues to honor high schools where female AP CS students are disproportionately represented [collegeboard.org] ("Schools receiving the AP Computer Science Female Diversity Award have achieved either 50% or higher female exam taker representation in one of or both AP computer science courses, or a percentage of female
There are no "awesome young engineers" (Score:2)
To become a really good engineer, you need a ton of experience. Only time can give you that. There are young engineers with the potential to become really good, but that is it. Ageism makes you stupid.
Re: There are no "awesome young engineers" (Score:2, Troll)
Though sometimes new engineers school the old ones. Sort of like I did to you yesterday.
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Hahah, you wish. What you actually and nicely demonstrated is that younger engineers frequently suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect and other forms of delusion. One of the things real experience eventually fixes with reasonable probability. But it takes a decade or two to get there.
Re: There are no "awesome young engineers" (Score:3)
Actually I've got the exact opposite of that, generally referred to as imposter syndrome. But you literally just got done telling me that what I've already done, when I had only been doing it for about 2.5 or so years (I started with rust in late 2020, and before that I was basically just doing powershell, a little of c# and unfortunately, a little bit of java) is really hard, even though it wasn't hard at all. How does one have overconfidence with work that has been running in production for just over a ye