•Mission Bit teaches the 70% of students in San Francisco who have no technology classes, basic computer science courses.
•Students can take either introductory classes using HTML, CSS, and Javascript, or an intermediate class that teaches Ruby, SQL, and JavaScript.
•Classes are taught by volunteer experienced engineers. There are so many volunteers that the student to instructor ratio is 2:1.
• Between the 2013 and 2014 school year, overall student enrollment tripled. Out of the 89% of students who had never worked with programming 40% were female. (In contrast, only 21% of Computer Science AP test takers in California were women last year.)
• Last semester, students created video games, made websites, created chat clients, and visualized audio.
• Mission Bit offers students high school credits, experience companies look for in computer programmers, and internships with San Francisco technology companies.
http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/05/missionbit/
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