SafePlate team
Built SafePlate, an app that finds safe dishes for people with food sensitivities.
Internship · 2024 View story →Now enrolling
Programs happening now.
Free · Grades 6–12
Redesign the Apps You Use
Look at the apps you use every day like a product designer, then use AI tools to make one safer, fairer, or more useful.
Free · Grades 6–12
3D Animation Lab
Make the web move. Explore interactive 3D design and motion in Spline, then bring it onto a real web page.
Free · Grades 6–12
CodeLab
Go from using websites to building one. Learn HTML and CSS and create a custom fan page.
Free · Grades 6–12
Your Playlist, Brought to Life
Turn music into data and code a visualizer that reacts to your playlist.
Why 5,000
5,000
innovators, prepared deeply enough
to move cities forward.
Meet the innovators.
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Yusef
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Tasnim
“This experience became a turning point in my life.”
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Autumn
“I wasn’t a big public speaker, ever in my life. Coded by: helped me practice that and get more comfortable doing that.”
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Gideon
“My time at Coded by: has shown me that growth often comes from venturing into the unknown, and that it’s possible to turn uncertainty into something truly rewarding.”
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The future of work changed. So did we.
You might know us for coding classes. That was step one.
What we build
Technical fluency, sharp judgment, and the confidence to ship. From a first line of code to internships, mentorship, and a venture of your own, we help people get into the future, then go shape it.
Why now
Work is moving faster than the old pathways can keep up. Here, technology is the training ground. You learn it, master it, and along the way get sharp at communicating, solving problems, adapting, and making the call, the stuff that keeps you growing long after day one.
What stays. What’s sunsetting. What scales.
Coded by: is moving into its next chapter. Now more than ever, work is changing. We’re doubling down to make sure people are prepared for the future, and ready to seize it.
Stays
Core focus on tech and innovation education for youth and adults. Plus Philly Tech Week and Innovation Weekend.
Sunsetting
The 1Philadelphia name and parts of its work, making way for a stronger focus on our programs and signature events.
Scales
Deeper preparation: skills, judgment, and relationships that compound.
Future 5000 // 2026–2030
5,000 more innovators by 2030.
Since 2014, Coded by: has prepared 5,500+ builders. Future 5000 is our commitment to prepare the next 5,000 to contribute, adapt, lead, and create, with real tech fluency, sharp judgment, and real-world reps.
Builders who go deeper, stay longer, and lead sooner.
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Then · 2014–2020
1,275
Builders prepared
Now · 2014–2026
5,500+
Builders prepared
Next · by 2030
10,500+
With 5,000 more
2014–2020
2020–2026
2027–2030, Future 5000
Coded by: draws on more than a decade of experience to deepen learning and develop the next generation of local innovators, while advancing research and thought leadership to strengthen innovation education at scale.
How we build builders
Stretch spaces: where you get good by doing hard things.
Supportive, rigorous rooms where you take on real challenges and walk out with the skills, judgment, and confidence to meet them.
Everyone who got somewhere had people who pushed them. That’s the job.
High bar. Open door.Tuesday · A day in a stretch spaceShort lessons. Lots of reps.
Five-minute overview of today’s challengeInvestigate problems
Team discussion and applied practiceWork in teams
On the boards: build it, test it, break itTest ideas
Show your thinking. Take the feedback.Respond to feedback
Receipts
What happens when people build.
They walk into opportunity, level up inside it, and create more of it for others.
93%
felt more professionally prepared after the program.
Future-ready talentEarly edge in entrepreneurship74%
of students left courses more interested in starting startups.
Future-ready talent89%
felt more prepared to use AI to build innovative solutions, rather than be displaced by it.
Innovators with agency650+
problems investigated and validated with 90+ interns over 6 years.
Long-term community contribution125+
community partners, building ethically, with community in mind.
Build with us
The next 5,000 builders need a crew.
Funders, employers, educators, and community partners: help build the spaces where more builders learn, lead, and create what comes next.