The Processing Fellowship reminded me how empowering it is to learn to code. I experienced this when I was teaching myself creative coding, and now, I’ve been able to share the joy of learning a new skill with a few dozen students in South Africa. I will keep teaching the course with funding from local organizations so that (hopefully) hundreds of marginalized students will be writing basic programs in p5.js and feel empowered to continue their self-directed coding journey using existing online resources.