Leaders and trend-setters agree on one thing! Get coding! Get Learning

Leaders and trend-setters agree on one thing! Get coding! Get Learning!

Richard Branson Founder,

Virgin Group

Whether we're fighting climate change or going to space, everything is moved forward by computers, and we don't have enough people who can code. Teaching young people to code early on can help build skills and confidence and energize the classroom with learning-by-doing opportunities. You can learn skills at any age but why wait when we can teach everyone to code now!

Jack DorseyCreator, Twitter. Founder and CEO, Square

I think that great programming is not all that dissimilar to great art. Once you start thinking in concepts of programming it makes you a better person...as does learning a foreign language, as does learning math, as does learning how to read.

Stephen Hawking

Theoretical Physicist, Cosmologist, and Author

Whether you want to uncover the secrets of the universe, or you just want to pursue a career in the 21st century, basic computer programming is an essential skill to learn.

President Bill Clinton

At a time when people are saying "I want a good job - I got out of college and I couldn't find one," every single year in America there is a standing demand for 120,000 people who are training in computer science.

Mark Zuckerberg

Founder, Facebook

Our policy at Facebook is literally to hire as many talented engineers as we can find. There just aren't enough people who are trained and have these skills today.

Dick Costolo

CEO, Twitter

If you can program a computer, you can achieve your dreams. A computer doesn't care about your family background, your gender, just that you know how to code. But we're only teaching it in a small handful of schools, why?

.

will.i.am

Musician/The Black Eyed Peas and Entrepreneur

We ALL depend on technology to communicate, to bank, and none of us know how to read and write code. It's important for these kids, right now, starting at 8 years old, to read and write code.

Chris Bosh

NBA All-star, Miami Heat

Coding is very important when you think about the future, where everything is going. With more phones and tablets and computers being made, and more people having access to every thing and information being shared, I think it's very important to be able to learn the language of coding and programming.

Ashton Kutcher

Actor

I'd like to advocate for computer coding to be an institution in the public school systems right next to biology, chemistry, physics, etc. If we want to spur job growth in the US we have to educate ourselves in the disciplines where jobs are available and where economic growth is feasible.