Teaching computer programming to youth can prepare them for the future job market, promote equity in tech professions and develop students’ computational thinking skills.

Amy Ko’s accident gave her an insight into the degree to which her discipline caters mainly to non-disabled people, reinspiring her to invent more accessible programming languages.

Until a year ago, Pratik Pokhrel from Tanahun relied entirely on Braille to read and write. Nowadays, the ninth grader at ...