Meet the Interns: Team Draft2Code

This summer, Coded by Kids hosted 18 interns through our Tech and Innovation Internship and OpportunityPHL mentorship programs, which connects underrepresented students in Philadelphia with industry professionals. Broken up into teams, the students worked together to solve problems, gain valuable advice from mentors and learn from our partners during site visits and virtual workshops.

Team Draft2Code, made up of Project Manager Irie Z., UI/UX Designer Ari M., Lead Web Developer Amadin A., and Web Developer Neirah H., worked together solving problems that impact their community.

Think Like a Founder

Coded by Kids aims to cultivate tech and start up leaders. To equip black and brown students with the knowledge and tools they need to not only work in the field of technology, but to be able to build their own startups and be their own founders and CEOs. For the Think Like a Founder project, the group was asked to think of 20 problems, go through the ideation process, and choose one problem to solve. Draft2Code’s problem statement was: