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All Star Code is a workforce development organization for high-potential students historically excluded from technology. We have served more than 10,000 learners since 2013, graduated more than 2,300 Scholars from our Summer Intensive, and have been tuition free since 2013. Our model, Launching Digital Futures, runs in three stages: Tech Exposure, Tech Pathways, and Tech Mobility. Employers take part at every stage, and the model follows a student from first exposure to technology into an industry role and the career after it.
Workshops and single sessions. A few hours or an evening, open to anyone in high school. No experience, no application.
Weekend Intensive. Two days in February 2027, focused on artificial intelligence, open to any high school student.
Summer Intensive. Six weeks. You build a project and present it to people who do this for a living. Finishing makes you a Scholar.
After the Summer Intensive. Scholars can apply to the Tech Entrepreneurship Incubator and build a venture of their own, and they stay connected to coaching, to each other, and to the training that keeps their skills current.
We do not chase placements. We build careers. Every program ends with something a student built, and Scholars finish with portfolios and projects that show what they can do. Employers show up throughout, mentoring Scholars, hosting them onsite, and teaching inside our programs.
Christina Lewis founded All Star Code in 2013. She is the daughter of Reginald F. Lewis, whose career on Wall Street was springboarded by a 1965 summer program at Harvard Law School. That program inspired the All Star Code model.
Researching a book on her father, Christina found that what set him apart was his mindset and the support networks around him.
When he died in 1993, Reginald F. Lewis was owner and CEO of TLC Beatrice International, the largest Black-owned business in the United States, and, according to Fortune, one of the 400 wealthiest people in America.
Since 2013 we have served more than 10,000 learners nationally, and more than 2,300 Scholars have graduated from the Summer Intensive. More than 450 Scholars are employed in tech. In 2025 the Summer Intensive trained 174 Scholars.
The Summer Intensive is open to male identifying students in high school, anywhere in the United States. No prior coding experience is required.
Applications for the 2027 Summer Intensive open January 31, 2027. Add your name to the list and we will tell you when they do. Questions go to [email protected].
There is no cost, and there never has been. You will need a computer and an internet connection for the live online sessions. If access to a computer is a problem, say so when you apply.
Instruction is live online, with in person programming where available.
In 2026, Scholars started with JavaScript fundamentals, designed an interactive game, built and launched their own websites with HTML and CSS, made them interactive, and connected their apps to real data through APIs. Teams finished a capstone and presented it at Demo Day. See the six weeks in full.
Career readiness runs the full six weeks, coaching and workshops led by career professionals, including a weekly session on using AI responsibly.
Learning to code teaches you how to think through a problem and build a solution. It also opens creative careers across every industry that runs on software.
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