2022 Impact Report

2022 IMPACT REPORT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

3 A Word from our CEO

4 Six Years of Impact

5 Student Profile

6 Race and Ethnicity 7 Gender 8 Socioeconomic Status

9 STEM Pathways Built to Last

10 Program Reach 11 Intern Performance 12 Alumni Network 13 Professional Cohort

14 Our Partners 15 Our Volunteer Partners 16 Our Volunteers 17 IDEA Awards

19 Our Funding Partners

20 Endnotes

A WORD FROM OUR CEO

Through support, dedicated investment and intentionality around student-centered design, measured growth and a drive toward equitable futures for high-potential, low-access students, the Code2College vision has been realized. We are humbled and inspired by the wave of Code2College program graduates who have progressed from high school participants to

summer interns summer interns; high school interns to college matriculants; college-going students to outstanding undergraduate candidates; and high-potential candidates to full-time employees in technical roles with reputable companies in the STEM ecosystem. From a few seeds to tall oak trees, these students represent the future of i) work and ii) technical talent. The future of work is leveraging resources from the very ecosystem that hopes to hire bright, diverse, homegrown technical talent and transform them from student to colleague. The future of technical talent is a growing network of students who have the opportunity to learn from anywhere, irrespective of zip code, socioeconomic status and respective networks, while forging a self-guided path toward access and excellence in STEM. Code2College continues to build with a long-term vision in mind as we move from serving hundreds to thousands to all historically underestimated students who have the will and access to high-speed internet.

Matt Stephenson In partnership, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder

celebrating SIX YEARS OF IMPACT

Our long-term goal has been clear and unwavering: to accelerate the pace and proportion of historically underestimated high school students who enter and excel in STEM undergraduate majors and careers. This work is a long-term investment and after six years of programming, we're realizing that vision. The students we served six years ago embody this determination and success. "I'd probably be stocking shelves at a grocery store. I definitely wouldn't have this job if it wasn't for Code2College." Anakaren replied when asked where she thought she'd be if she hadn't heard of Code2College. After four internships with Indeed , Anakaren S., who joined Code2College in 2017, was offered a full-time position as a Software Developer this past summer. Once she graduates from UT Austin with a degree in Informatics in Spring 2023, Anakaren will be among the very first Code2College students to realize our vision.

FALL 2017

Fall 2018

Summer 2021

SUMMER 2022

Anakaren capitalizes on the professional development & skill- building workshops hosted by corporate partners like Meta & Google

Anakaren takes her first after-school Code2College coding class as a junior in high school

After a fourth internship, Anakaren is offered a full-time role as a Software Engineer at Indeed for Spring 2023

Anakaren completes her third technical internship with Indeed as a rising college junior

Anakaren's story shows that talent is universal, but opportunity is not. We're thrilled to share the work and impact of 2022 that made Anakaren's success possible.

STUDENT PROFILE

RACE and ETHNICITY

U.S. Industry Participation by Racial Group 1

It's no secret that tech skills are in high demand. Employment in computer science and eng- ineering is growing at twice the rate of the national average, providing jobs with higher pay and better benefits as well as strong potential for career growth. Black and Latinx workers face structural and economic barriers that have prevented their entry into STEM careers for generations. Compared to total private industry, the high tech sector employs a significantly smaller share of Black workers (7.4% high tech to 14.4% overall) and Latinx workers (8% to 13.9%) . 1

High Tech Industries All Private Industries Code2College Students & Alumni

34.0%

28.8%

14.4%

13.9%

8.0%

7.4%

of Code2College students identify as Black or Latinx

62%

Black

Hispanic or Latinx

Code2College strives to support our student population, who are mostly Black and Latinx, with the education, exposure, and experience they need to become tomorrow's leaders in STEM. One of the ways we help our students to see themselves in tech careers is through partnership with tech company ERGs. Mentorship from volunteers that share their racial identity can be a valuable reinforcement for our students that they belong and can succeed in tech careers.

Code2College '21, Software Engineering Intern at DISCO '22, University of Virginia '26 Sonia B. "I want to pursue STEM not only to be a motivation to many younger Black women, but also because I believe there are so many chances in STEM that will allow me to contribute to the development of solutions to global challenges."

GENDER

high school girls think coding jobs are for them 31% 1

young women say they know how to pursue a STEM career 42%

women switch out of a STEM major or drop out altogether 28%

% of Code2College Community that Identifies as Female

Not only are our female volunteers active at numerous workshops and events, but they are highly engaged as mentors. For example, an initiative Code2College is part of the solution for strengthening the pipeline of girls and women entering STEM fields with the tools they need to succeed. We have witnessed firsthand the power of representation, and have thus created numerous outlets for our female students to meaningfully engage with and learn from female STEM professionals and role models.

78%

47%

41%

Students

Volunteers

Staff

initiative we've pioneered to break the gender barrier in STEM is Vision 2024 - our commitment to place 200 Black and Latina women into STEM roles by the year 2024. In this program, Black and Latina girls are paired with female mentors who coach them through various professional and personal challenges through regular meetings and strategic workshops. To learn more about this innovative program, please see our Vision 2024 Annual Report . Additionally, we launched Technically 200 , a podcast featuring the stories of Black and Latina women breaking barriers in STEM. This platform not only amplifies the voices of inspiring women of color, but provides Black and Latina girls interested in STEM another pathway to learn directly from the experiences of professionals who look like them. You can listen to these powerful stories at Technically200.com .

"As women, it is important that we are not discouraged from pursuing a career in technology, despite being told otherwise." Code2College '22, Software Engineering Intern at BigCommerce '22, Achievement First Amistad HS '23 Jacquelin O.

SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS

will be first generation

of Code2College students are economically disadvantaged* 46%

college graduates 28%

*Data represented by free or reduced lunch self-reporting

Code2College is committed to removing barriers to our programs. When Code2College was cut off from our students by the COVID-19 pandemic, we quickly pivoted to fully virtual operations. Virtual courses have allowed us to continue to serve our students, but disparities in digital access presented a new problem. About 5% of our students in each wave of courses do not have access to a computer that they can use to attend their classes. In 2022, we have been able to fully meet this need with 311 donated laptops and webcams - essentials for ensuring that all students have access to our programs. Thank you to our partners such as Apollo Endosurgery, Indeed, Data.World, AT&T, Polaris, TrustRadius, Sapphire Ventures, and Sailpoint Technologies for making these donations and making STEM accessible for our students! 4 Code2College Bridges the Digital Access Gap

"Investing our resources, both time and money, into Code2College is a win-win. Our people get to make a direct impact on young people who are aspiring to careers in technology, and we get to support an organization that has proven effective at 'moving the needle' to increase diversity in STEM. We believe in Code2College because it WORKS."

Mark McClain, CEO and Founder, SailPoint

PROGRAM REACH

INTERN PERFORMANCE

130 Code2College interns im- pressed our Visionary Partners, with 83% of hiring managers scoring our interns "at or above the level of undergraduate interns."

Thanks to our nationwide growth, 2022 was our most exciting year yet. We served 1,255 students - more than the number of students we served in years 1-5 combined!

STEM PATHWAYS BUILT TO LAST

Our rapidly growing network of 250+ engaged alumni are pursuing their goals, marketing to our partners, and developing their skills as future leaders in Tech.

We are proud to introduce three of our program's first six alumni to accept full time STEM positions at statewide and global tech companies.

ALUMNI NETWORK

PROFESSIONAL COHORT

PROGRAM REACH

The diverse talent development blueprint that Code2College established in Austin, Texas continued to work nationwide this past year. Scaling from serving dozens of students per year to thousands takes a lot of intentional work; building out a strong team, recruiting new school partners, seeking out new corporate partners to engage in this work, and more. We're proud to report that our intentional work and continued effort helped us reach over 1,500 students in 2022! Looking forward to 2023, we will double down on our efforts to serve the the many high school students across the country who have the interest and talent to succeed in Tech, but lack exposure to the possibilities.

Parkway Center City Middle College, Philadelphia, '25 Software Engineering Intern at VMware '22 Laila H. "Code2College got me out of my comfort zone. Because of my hands-on experience, I know that I want to be in technology. Everybody thought that because I was [working] at [VMware], that I must be in college. They were really surprised when they found out I was fifteen!"

INTERN PERFORMANCE

Our interns this year had a huge impact for our partners by ensuring projects were completed on-time and all feedback was received and implemented quickly. Further, 40+ intern projects were moved into production by the end of the summer and another 20+ were in the process of production by Fall 2022. Interns worked to create pages to show user-friendly interfaces for key team data for Silicon Labs , streamlined user

150

142

TOTAL INTERNS PER YEAR

100

2017

2018

2019

2020 2021

2022

interfaces for NI , created Slack Bots for American Express , updated web-based configurations for Strive Health , automated the digital acknowledgement process for H-E-B , and so much more! With 83% of hiring managers rating Code2College interns at or above undergraduate level, our interns not only satisfy in terms of professionalism, but they meaningfully support our partners in product production.

130 Summer 2022 internships

year over year growth 2X

Summer 2022 Visionary Partners

Code2College continues to invest heavily in our high school technical internships. Therefore, it was time to invest in a full-time team dedicated to intern success. We were thrilled to move key teammates to managing our year-long internship preparation process full-time. Now all Code2College program graduates know who the go-to team is for all questions internships as do our Visionary Partners who support our interns.

Carolina is a junior at Texas A&M University , majoring in Computing with a focus in Psychology and Data Engineering. Since 2020, each summer she works as a software engineering intern at Atlassian , where she has contributed to big projects like migrating users and data to new systems, integrating new accounts through front- and back-end development, and more! Intern Highlight: Carolina B. (C2C '20)

ALUMNI NETWORK

As Code2College completes a sixth year of programming, several of our very first students have graduated college and are thriving in STEM careers with many other program alumni preparing to graduate from college and enter their STEM careers - reaching the most important goal of the Code2College program.

Code2College Alumni in college

305 Current HS Seniors/

252

Rising College Freshman

Code2College alumni now attend 66 colleges and universities across the country and internationally, with 73% pursuing a STEM major . With hundreds of Code2College students graduating from high school each year, supporting our alumni is more critical than ever to fulfilling our mission. To meet their needs, we have expanded our alumni programming to increase access to mentorship, individual support and advising, peer engagement and community building, networking opportunities, professional development workshops, and internship & job search support. Additionally, the Alumni, College and Career Success team creates a Resume Book to aid in internship and career placement for our program alumni as well as an engagement scholarship each semester to help support with college expenses and book costs. Code2College alumni continue to impress with their academic success, internship engagement, leadership endeavors, and early career pursuits.

Favour is currently a freshman at the University of Texas at Austin , majoring in Electrical & Computer Engineering. Eyes set on the future, Favour took multiple Code2College courses and participated in over a dozen professional development workshops, eventually landing a software engineering internship with Atlassian in the summer of 2022. What's more, Favour is highly active in her local community. She's worked as a volunteer teacher for CoEducate.org, participated and learned from a UT Austin research program, and plays the violin for UT's Orchestra for Engineers Club! No wonder she's wearing sunglasses - she's got a bright future ahead! Alumni Highlight: Favour O. (C2C '22)

PROFESSIONAL COHORT

When programming began in 2016, we estimated a 5-6 year timeline from coding instruction to full time employment placement. Right on schedule, 2022 was the year we saw our first six program alumni receive and sign full time offers for STEM roles. Of these six students, two thirds are girls and all but one are Black- or Latinx-identifying. Meet three of our alumni changing the face of the STEM ecosystem:

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

CODE2COLLEGE '18

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INTERN

Angela G.

Code2College Alumna 5 Paid Internships Vision 2024 Legacy

Associate's Degree

CYBERSECURITY ENGINEER

CODE2COLLEGE '19

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INTERN

Kristy L.

Code2College Alumna 2 Paid Internships Vision 2024 Legacy

Bachelor's Degree

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

CODE2COLLEGE '17

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INTERN

Marlene M. Code2College Alumna 3 Paid Internships Vision 2024 Legacy Bachelor's Degree

We are proud of both these incredible students and also of the fact that all of their employers are Code2College partners. We are grateful to count Indeed , H-E-B , Q2 , Silicon Labs and Microsoft as the first companies to help us realize our vision.

our partners

OUR VOLUNTEER PARTNERS

300+ Volunteer Hours in 2022

Volunteer Hours in 2022

100+

Volunteer Hours in 2021

20+ Volunteer Hours in 2021

50+

Eventbrite Indeed

YETI Amazon NOVA Inkline Design IBM onXMaps Aledade Absorb LMS USAA

Pluralsight Outschool Inc. Intheon.io Hyland Whole Foods Compass Meta Valkyrie Intelligence Element Analytics

TrustRadius Validic Mess Marketing Kendra Scott First Trust Portfolios PIMCO Clerk Retail Symbiont, Inc. Everlywell Microsoft Buildforce Services, Inc.

Samsung Austin Semiconductor Brex Applied Materials Favor Delivery

GoDaddy SailPoint Zynga

Athenahealth Cisco Systems Realtor.com PayIt Aura Babylon Health Freddie Mac

WP Engine Silicon Labs Dell Auctane

OUR VOLUNTEERS

MARC TO PROVIDE!

Volunteer Highlight: Derrell Moore

Engagement Manager, Google Derrell has been a champion of Code2College since 2020 and since then has helped with leading student professional skills workshops, collaborated on planning for major events, and championing the mission of Code2College at the Google Austin office and beyond! By leading the charge at Google, Derrell has not only created new opportunities for our students across our growing, national network, but also inspired Google volunteers to achieve our No 1. spot on the 2022 Diversity in STEM Report!

Our impact is only possible through the commitment of professionals who generously volunteer their time to work with our students. In addition to the obvious benefit to our students, volunteers are also personally and professionally impacted as they mentor the next generation of STEM professionals. Google was named our 2022 Diversity in STEM Champion, having logged a record- breaking 538 volunteer hours in a single year. In the spirit of our student value Thank Relentlessly, their efforts were formally recognized at our third annual Code2College IDEA Awards, alongside many others who engaged and impacted students in the following ways: 838 volunteers invested 7,173 hours in 2022 ( YOY!) +39%

CODING INSTRUCTION Our coding instructors meet with our students twice a week, building re-lationships while teaching the technical skills students are eager to learn.

VISION 2024 MENTORSHIP

Learn about our Technical and Executive Mentors in the Vision 2024 Annual Report.

PROFESSIONAL MENTORSHIP Industry professionals support our students in building key skills like resume writing and interview preparation (Professional Skills Workshops) and by engaging in hands-on STEM experiences in industries ranging from test engineering and software development to fintech and private equity (STEM Case Competitions)

MASS REMOTE EVENTS During our remote events, volunteers give feedback on students' resumes and college admission essays.

...AND MORE! Code2College now offers nearly a dozen other volunteer opportunities ranging from Hackathons to essay review, with more opportunities in development.

2022 IDEA AWARDS

In November 2022, Code2College celebrated our 3rd Annual Inclusion, Diversity, & Equity in Action (IDEA) Awards. This is a student-driven celebration of the professionals and companies in the Austin Tech ecosystem who have made a tremendous investment of time, talent and treasure in the hundreds of students served by the Code2College program.

Google ranked #1 in volunteer hours in the last program year with a total of 538 hours! They continue to invest tremendously in volunteer instruction, insightful interview workshops, and in providing critical feedback on student resumes. Code2College students continue to rave about events hosted by Google, including a STEM Case Competition centered around increasing representation for all communities on various applications. Through this partnership, our students have been able to picture themselves in a career with Google and have sparked a confidence within our students to pursue careers in tech.

DIVERSITY IN STEM CHAMPION

Atlassian's engagement with Code2College has exploded since they first volunteered with us back in 2017. A single, deeply passionate volunteer grew into dozens along with 20 paid internships for Code2College students, they're always throwing in additional support wherever they can give it. Their genuine passion has had a true impact on our students and interns, who have successfully navigated nerve-wracking life milestones, like future internships and college, from their discussions and connections with company volunteer mentors. One student nominator recalled Atlassian "feeling like home."

EMPLOYER OF THE YEAR

A founding partner of Code2College, Q2 has continued to provide critical support and dedication to the Code2College mission. Workshops provide students with critical skills and knowledge that they have used to secure internships in and outside of high school. Workshop topics have included interviewing, resume building, storytelling, SMART goals, and STEM Industry Case Competitions. Recalls one student nominator: "These workshops taught valuable lessons that everyone who joined can agree changed them for the better."

WORKSHOP OF THE YEAR

2022 IDEA AWARDS - INDIVIDUAL WINNERS

VISION 2024 MENTOR OF THE YEAR

INSTRUCTOR OF THE YEAR

KELSEY HUSE

LAUREN LUENSMANN Lauren has been an incredible champion and advocate for Kristy Lavache, a now Code2College alumnus at Texas A&M. This mentorship pair blossomed from simple discussions on what Kristy wanted to do in the future, into building her confidence in technical interviews, and on into Kristy securing an internship at H-E-B - which she boasts is largely in part to her guidance and support from Lauren as her mentor.

Kelsey has been an incredible role model for tons of students who have passed through and completed the Code2College program. She has impacted the lives of countless students, selflessly fives, and has been a dedicated instructor of 3 major Code2College courses. "I'm sure she is one of the reasons that my internship experience went so well," says one student nominator.

VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR

MOST COMMITTED VOLUNTEER

DAVID MARTINEZ

MIKE LAGRASSO

David Martinez is no stranger to Code2College. He has been volunteering with us since 2017 and has logged just over 370 hours. He's an expert in teaching our students in person and virtually and has continued to connect and inspire our students with his guidance and commitment to our mission. He has seen every iteration of Code2College over the years and has shared his expertise to help develop curriculum.

Mike is a longstanding Code2College volunteer who continuously goes above and beyond for our students. He has taught a course every wave this program year on top of volunteering for multiple workshops and mass remote events. He has logged over 300 volunteers hours since 2020, has supported curriculum development, and goes out of his way to ensure students are prepared for their technical internships.

OUR FUNDING PARTNERS

BREYER FAMILY FOUNDATION

LIVING WATER FOUNDATION

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