First Code Academy

First Code Academy was founded with the mission to provide students with the digital literacy and the computational thinking skills, empowering them to become creators with technology. Our after school computer coding programs use proprietary curriculum adapted from Silicon Valley high schools, incorporated in learning environments designed to stimulate inquiry based learning, logical thinking and creative problem solving. In 2012, when Michelle was working in Silicon Valley as a software engineer, she volunteered to teach programming to primary and secondary school students at a program operated at Stanford campus. Observing how the millennials (digital natives) interact and create with technology, she reflected upon her education in Hong Kong. When she moved back to Hong Kong in 2013, she began to offer coding courses and develop curriculum for primary and secondary students to learn not just coding skills, but computational thinking. The goal is to empower digital natives to become creative leaders in the digital era, for their future career and for driving social change. First Code has partnered with many multinational corporations including Google for social impact projects teaching students from underprivileged communities how to code. The team is based in Hong Kong with presence in Singapore. Their work has been featured on Wall Street Journal, CNN, BBC News, and multiple local press including South China Morning Post.