Two CU-Boulder programs receive $250K in grants from Google

BOULDER – The University of Colorado Boulder on Thursday announced that a pair of programs at the school that teach kids how to code have received a total of $250,000 in grants from Google.

The Google RISE Awards are aimed at supporting efforts to attract girls and minorities to computer science.

AspireIT, a program of the National Center for Women & Information Technology based at CU, won a $150,000 award that it will use to continue work toward its goal of engaging 10,000 middle school girls in learning computer concepts by 2018. AspireIT has launched 70 programs in the last two years,…