Indian American-founded Nonprofit MathandCoding Adds Machine Learning, Engineering Workshops

The nonprofit MathandCoding, a San Francisco Bay Area-based organization that teaches coding to kids, June 11 announced it has expanded its offering to include machine learning and engineering workshops to its lessons. The organization as a whole has grown since being founded by three high school students to hold lessons at more than 25 libraries and community centers throughout the area. The success has led to co-founder Anika Cheerla saying the organization has ventured into physics, engineering and machine learning. MathandCoding started machine learning and AI for Girls initiative about a year ago to encourage middle and high school girls to learn machine learning and artificial intelligence, which Cheerla said are the future technologies sweeping all facets of life. "It was received with a lot of enthusiasm," the Indian American said in an email to India-West of the workshop, where students learn to use open databases to create models and do predications.