Local teenager launches Code to Grow to help disadvantaged kids learn technology
by Sebastian Summer A Manhattan Beach teenager has raised $250,000 and launched a nonprofit that allows children from economically disadvantaged backgrounds to learn computer coding. Jack Segil, who founded Code to Grow when he was 14. Jack Segil, who will be a senior at Chadwick High School next year, has been coding since his early childhood. He became passionate about it at Planet Bravo, a summer coding camp for kids. “I really got into coding in 4th grade,” Segil said. “I went to Planet Bravo, and learned more about coding through the internet.” At 14, Segil began realizing a greater need within the coding community. “I was kind of looking around one day and I saw ‘Oh, all of the kids here, they’re just like me. They’re white kids from rich families, mostly boys,’” he recalled. Eventually, Code to Grow emerged as Segil’s way to give back to the community that he has enjoyed so thoroughly. “I want to help other people like me to find this who would never have it,” he said. “I feel like that would be the way that I want to give back to the world.” Now 17, Segil’s drive to give back hasn’t wavered in the slightest. In just years, Code to Grow has blossomed into an organization…
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