Google to teach Boys & Girls Clubs to code

Google is teaming up with Boys & Girls Clubs of America to bring a program that teaches computer science to more elementary and middle-school students across the country. Called CS First, the program teaches kids ages 9 to 14 how to express themselves and their interests through computer code. Google launched CS First in July 2013 as a pilot program out of its South Carolina data center.

The program geared to fourth- to eighth-graders is called a "club in a box." Anyone, a teacher, coach or volunteer, can use the online curriculum to teach kids the basics of coding. More than 18,000 students have taken part in the program at one of more than 1,200 CS First clubs around the country, according to Google.