Code.org gets funding from Gates Foundation for teacher training
Code.org, a non-profit that trains teachers on how to offer computer science lessons, has raised $12m from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and PwC, among others. Code.org also hosts the Hour of Code programme, which will offer 122,000 events over the second week of December.

Code.org is getting $12 million in philanthropic funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other donors like auditor PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers), as first reported by the Seattle Times. The organization also announced in a Medium post that it has reached ten million girls with student accounts on its platform.

The Code.org nonprofit trains teachers on how to teach computer science lessons to students from kindergarten through 12th grade. It also hosts Hour of Code activities for students to learn coding basics. This year’s Computer Science Education Week starts today and there are over 122,000 Hour of Code global events registered to happen throughout the week.