Code.org Programs and Partners in India
Today, India is home to over 265 million students in grades 1-12. The empowerment that computer science education can bring is invaluable-- especially to students from traditionally underserved communities. Talent is everywhere, but opportunity is not. With Code.org, Indian students will have free access to our curricula, unlocking potential and expanding opportunities for all students.
Code.org Computer Science Education Materials in Use in India
2.2m
Student Accounts in India
30m
Projects Created in India
220k
Teachers Using Code.org in India
Our curriculum and teacher materials available in 5 Indian languages
To better serve students and teachers within India we are incredible excited to offer our courses and teacher training and classroom materials in Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Tamil, and Telugu. These links will take you to the translated language of your choice:
Code.org's Free Computer Science Education Courses for Children in India
Code.org India's Partner Footprint
India's thriving ecosystem of education nonprofits supplements state efforts by providing computer science education through targeted interventions, reaching millions of students.
Partnership network: Our partners have a presence across 21 states with a higher concentration in southern regions. They work directly with students and teachers through an in-school delivery model. Teacher capacity building: With over 9 million teachers in India, enabling meaningful teacher-student interactions is key to transforming student learning outcomes in schools. To support this goal, our partners design and deliver teacher training programs, provide teaching materials, and foster supportive communities for educators. CS curriculum: Partners integrate Code.org curriculum and pedagogy into CS and cross-disciplinary subjects to create fun, engaging learning experiences for students.
CS Education Partners Spotlight
Leadership for Equity
Leadership for Equity is a Pune-based NGO dedicated to strengthening public education systems. Over six years, LFE has trained 8,800+ system leaders and 220,000+ teachers, impacting 8.8 million students. In Maharashtra, LFE supports five districts, two municipal bodies, and four state-level education agencies. In Andhra Pradesh, it partners with Samagra Shiksha, SCERT, and The World Bank to enhance learning across 26 districts. In Haryana, LFE collaborates with SCERT to establish program management units (PMUs) for large-scale academic programs.As a systems change organization, LFE advocates for coding, computational thinking, and emerging technologies in government schools to equip students with essential 21st-century skills. Key initiatives and impact:
CS Teaching Excellence:5K public schools teachers trained
Computational Thinking Hackathons for Students :57K students reached from public schools from grade 4-8
Explore CS Sessions:100K students reached
Asha for Education
Asha for Education is an all-volunteer organization that has been working since 1991. Asha has helped finance more than 350 projects across 24 Indian states. The Asha Chennai took root in 2002 as a separate chapter. Asha Chennai is actively executing projects which together support more than 500+ schools, run 10 libraries and 9 RTCs (Rural Technology Centers) and provide scholarships for over 100 students. Key initiatives and impact:
Explore:Basic digital literacy and programming activities, impacting 300+ schools and 30K+ students in grades 6-9
ACE (Asha Computer Education): 2-year CS curriculum implementation by government teachers in 105 schools with 4K students
RTC (Rural Technology Centers):Advanced CS courses for high/higher secondary grades students in rural communities, serving 4K students
Code.org Partners in India
Code.org partners advance computer science & artificial intelligence education in many countries including these partners.
Asha for Education- Chennai
Asha for Education is an all-volunteer, not-for-profit organization that has been working since 1991. Since its inception, Asha has helped finance more than 350 projects across 24 Indian states. The Asha Chennai took root in 2002 as a separate chapter. Asha Chennai is actively executing about 10 projects which together support more than 500+ schools, run 10 libraries and 9 RTCs (Rural Technology Centers) and provide scholarships for over 100 students. They have been raising funds for these from individual donations, donations from corporations and organizations as well as from other Asha chapters.
American India Foundation
The American India Foundation Trust (AIF) is committed to improving the lives of India’s underprivileged, with a special focus on women, children, and youth. The Foundation does this through high-impact interventions in education, health, and livelihoods because poverty is multidimensional. Founded over two decades ago, in the aftermath of the devastating Gujarat earthquake, as a humanitarian initiative by Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ji and Bill Clinton, American India Foundation Trust (AIF) has impacted the lives of 16.51 million of India’s poor across 35 States and Union Territories of India.
Educational Initiatives
Founded in 2001, Educational Initiatives (EI) is a first-of-its-kind PedTech leader. EI leverages the twin levers of cutting-edge pedagogical research and technology-based solutions, to help students across different economies and demographics, learn with understanding. With over two decades of experience in the edtech space, its vast pool of student-data enables the organization to identify learning gaps and create a systematic shift in the way teachers teach and students learn.
Leadership for Equity
Leadership for Equity envisions public education systems that refuse to let children down. LFE’s mission is to improve the learning and well-being of children at scale by building the systemic capacity of governments through teachers and academic leaders. Started in 2017, with a primary focus on the geography of Pune City in partnership with MSCERT, LFE has now scaled to 5 States in India by partnering with State Government Education bodies and renowned organizations like World Bank, Amazon, Code.org and many more.
Learning Links Foundation (LLF)
Learning Links Foundation is dedicated to "Empowering Lives". Working in the Formal and Non-formal Education sector, the Foundation has four domains of specialization; enhancing the Quality of Education, strengthening Citizenship, harnessing the power of Technology for Educational and Social Improvement and supporting Sustainable Social Innovation. The Foundation works closely with the Ministry of Human Resource Development, the Ministry of Information & Technology and State Governments across many States.
Literacy India
Literacy India has clearly set the three E's as its goal on a process of achieving in next decade - Education, Empowerment and Employment. They endeavor to meet this objective through imparting basic education and through exposing our students to a variety of vocational skills including performing arts and computer animation. In Education, Literacy India is focused on bringing about a qualitative change in the lives of underprivileged children by giving a different meaning to education.
Navgurukul
NavGurukul has been making a transformative impact for over 7 years. They are dedicated to empowering underserved communities through education and skills development, opening doors to desirable jobs. The one-year residential courses provide students with a Certificate in Software Programming. They have achieved 630+ success stories and an impressive earning of INR 16 crore annually. NavGurukul offers courses in Software Programming, Design, Media, Finance, and Management, all with guaranteed desirable job placements. Developed by NavGurukul alumni and volunteers, the online open-source application, Meraki, has educated 50k+ students and 1k+ teachers in programming basics.
Peepul
Peepul’s mission is to transform learning in public schools by increasing student engagement in classrooms and strengthening governance systems. They run three exemplar schools through a public-private partnership model with the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD). These schools serve as our R&D labs and evidence for ‘how a government school could look’. Peepul builds strong government partnerships to co-design high-level strategies for (1) Teacher Professional Development, (2) Academic Mentorship and Coaching and (3) Strengthening Governance and Institutions to improve learning outcomes in public schools.
Quest Alliance
The Quality Education and Skills Training (QUEST) Alliance is a non profit trust that focuses on research-led innovation and advocacy in the field of teaching and learning. They engage with multiple stakeholders to demonstrate and enable scalable solutions in education and vocational training using Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Quest Alliance provides children & youth, age 10-30, a set of real-world skills along with opportunities to build confidence in a fun and engaging way that prepares them for work and life.
Empowering Students with Free NEP 2020-Aligned Computer Science and AI Curriculum across India
With India on the brink of digital transformation to modernize and revamp the country's education system, now is the perfect moment to make computer science education accessible to all students across the country. Aligned with NEP 2020, it addresses an urgent need, as the policy calls to prepare students with essential 21st-century skills—critical thinking, creativity, digital literacy, and problem-solving—qualities that computer science education can uniquely nurture.NEP 2020 also highlights the importance of introducing coding and AI at an early age, increasing students' exposure to these transformative skills. The policy aims to equip young learners to be future-ready and inspire them to lead in a world driven by technological innovation.
