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High Schoolers Create Nonprofit To Get Other Teens Into Computer Science
Nikhil Sharma (right) and Arnav Joshi (left) want their nonprofit to empower their peers.
Working out of a family garage, two teenaged friends from Harker High School in San Jose, Calif., co-founded a nonprofit to make it possible for thousands of students to get real-world experience in computer science.
Seniors Arnav Joshi and Nikhil Sharma help teenagers coordinate hackathons that provide mentors and resources for free.
After they took part in their first hackathon off campus, they were hungry for more."There's a lot of college hackathons, a lot of company hackathons. We realized there were a lot students 18-and-under who weren't getting the same opportunities," Sharma says.
Since co-founding 18 Tech Ventures, "we've run almost 53 events in five countries around the globe," Joshi says.
18 Tech Ventures guides teenagers with the blueprints to organize their own hackathons. Joshi and Sharma provide speakers, sponsors, mentors, and marketing. "Our main goal is to inspire innovation," Joshi says.
From CBS San Francisco
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