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Sarah Matusek, Staff writer at The Christian Science Monitor writes, A New Jersey teen tech whiz aims to bring free one-on-one computer tutoring to his younger peers through his nonprofit CS Remastered.
For the past two years, since fifth grade, Aarav Khatri woke up on the weekends excited for more classes.
Separate from his schoolwork, his weekend computer science classes – given for free by the nonprofit CS Remastered (“CS” for computer science) – were taught by local teen volunteers at a few libraries in central New Jersey. With the guidance of tutors and his laptop, Aarav unlocked a limitless world, where lines of code could identify prime numbers, design dictionaries, or spit out a Fibonacci sequence...
Classes moved remote during the pandemic on the virtual platform Discord, which allows for breakout rooms. Since the instructors themselves are still in high school, once the school year began, all tutoring moved to weekend sessions. CS Remastered is seeking funding, mainly to buy its most disadvantaged students laptops for lessons. It’s also adding partners, including nonprofits Girls Who Code and HomeFront NJ, which works to curb homelessness and for whom Samvit’s team has offered lessons.
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
