A startup non-profit has helped more than 1,000 people land a job in the tech industry by training people with the necessary skills for computer coding for free.

Momentum Learning's Demo Day is a science fair-meets-show and tell where students present apps they've built to an audience of investors, potential employers and others in the tech community.

Of the participants in Code Haven, 43 percent said the program is their first exposure to computer science, according to the Code Haven website. In the regular Code Haven class sessions, which occur ...

Mindlin runs STEM Coding Lab, which provides computer science education to kids in underresourced schools, giving them the skills to be creators, not just users of technology.