Cracking the Code: How Computer Science Can Change Lives

The CEO of Baltimore-based nonprofit Digit All Systems Inc., Lance Lucas described a real-world approach to using coding to create opportunity. His company has trained more than 10,000 students in cybersecurity certifications and computer programming through partnerships with 60 schools in the Baltimore/Washington metropolitan area, and has donated more than 3,500 computers to churches, schools, community groups and other organizations in need. He organized the first guns-for-computers trade-in program in the U.S. in 2013 and, after the rioting in Baltimore in 2015, offered people in affected areas a chance to reboot their lives.