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The Octopus That Ate the Edtech Stack
Kira began by teaching computer science. Then it noticed the harder problem: teachers were doing unpaid integration work between a small republic of apps. Its answer is one purple, many-armed system - and Tennessee has supplied the first serious test.
Major League Hacking Turned the All-Nighter Into a 5 Million-Person Developer Funnel
MLH started by putting rules, mentors and sponsor gear around chaotic campus hackathons. Now its real product is the moment a new developer stops watching tutorials and ships something - with a brand’s API inside it.
CodeHS
CodeHS is a K-12 computer science education platform that gives schools everything they need to teach coding: a browser-based coding environment, a full standards-aligned curriculum spanning elementary through AP, teacher tools for grading and progress tracking, professional development, and industry certifications. Founded in 2012 by two Stanford CS section leaders, Jeremy Keeshin and Zach Galant, it now reaches millions of students and thousands of schools, and in 2025 acquired the K-8 creative coding platform Tynker.