By Caroline Winter, Business Week Magazine
When Sep Kamvar showed his newest batch of students how to color the text on their Web pages purple, they jumped up and squealed. The Stanford consulting professor and former Google (GOOG) executive has been seeing a lot of that lately. His students are 10- and 11-year-olds at Girls Prep Middle School, a New York City charter school that serves mostly low-income families. Kamvar and his wife, Angie Schiavoni, recently launched CodeEd, a pilot program to introduce fifth-grade girls to computer science. Funded with $20,000 donated by the couple, it’s the only such program in the U.S. geared to underprivileged preteen girls.
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