Mission Transformation, a mentorship-based organization that works to develop, empower, and inspire young boys to excel in academics, is calling the program Microsoft “Black Boy Joy” coding camp.

The coding camp will be facilitated by professionals at Microsoft. It's for Black boys from ages eight to 16 years old. It will take place Aug. 9 through Aug. 13.

But experts involved in computer coding education lament that it remains a boy-dominated activity. Mitchel Resnick, an MIT professor, developed Scratch, a simplified computer programming language that ...

As part of Computer Science Education Week, Apple has expanded its partnership with Boys & Girls Clubs of America to bring coding and app design lessons to 10 regions across the US.

To counteract them is very, very difficult.” Photo: In this 2015 photo, 3rd grader Iyana Simmons works on a coding exercise at Michael Anderson School in Avondale, Ariz.