EXPAND THE CANVAS OF YOUR IMAGINATION
Designed for ages 10-16
HOW IT WORKS
CODE
You have a canvas to create games, turn your drawings into animations, and build anything else you can imagine.
SHARE
When you’re done coding, you can publish their game for your friends and family to play.
PLAY
You can explore projects made by other kids to get inspiration for your next game.
Express your personality
Programming is an art as much as a science. You can express your ideas in Hopscotch through games, apps, animations, and more.
Experiment and learn
There are no mistakes, just opportunities to explore. With Hopscotch you'll discover new questions and answer them yourself. You can't make a syntax error so you are free to explore your wildest ideas.
Experience how software is made
You can take control of your own technology. If you know how apps and games are made, you can understand them and feel comfortable using them for your own purposes.
The team
We are parents, scientists, artists, and educators.
Our mission is to create a programming environment that lets kids explore powerful ideas while making real software.
Rodrigo Tello
Rodrigo is a Mexican Brooklyn-based interface designer, artist, musician, and entrepreneur. He believes computing, just like films, poetry, literature, music, and any other medium, can help us understand something new about the world and ourselves.
Yuanyuan Zhao
Yuanyuan is the smiley face behind the Hopscotch hello email. She studied computer science and art during her time at Princeton (Fun fact: she showed her works at Art Basel in Miami!). Before joining Hopscotch she was a teacher in NYC. She uses her artistic sensibilities to organize fun community events that challenge kids to code their most creative projects.
Tracey Le
Tracey, aka “t1,” is a Hopscotch superstar. She began coding at age 14 in Hopscotch, where her projects garnered over a million plays. She’s a poster child for Hopscotch’s effectiveness at teaching programming. After learning how to code on Hopscotch, she taught herself Python and Swift, and now checks in code powering the app as a member of the Hopscotch engineering team. She’s also the new voice behind the tutorial videos teaching you Hopscotch. When she’s not working, you can find her cooking up a secret recipe or playing her favorite movie music on the piano.
The founders
Jocelyn Leavitt
Jocelyn was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawai’i. After graduating from Dartmouth College, Jocelyn taught at the Island School on Kaua'i and at the Dalton School, in NYC. She traded in her books for business school at Columbia, but never left behind her love for project-based learning. Hopscotch combined her interests in entrepreneurship and education using constructivist principles to teach kids engineering. Jocelyn serves on the board of NYC’s Tech Talent Pipeline and has been honored as one of Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business. Jocelyn can’t escape her island roots as a waterwoman and loves any activities in, above or near the ocean.
Samantha John
Samantha fell in love with programming during her senior year at Columbia. She started Hopscotch 10 years ago to introduce every kid to this fantastic skill. John Holt and Ivan Illich are her favorite radical educators; she cares deeply about empowering kids to learn independently. Samantha aims to be a role model for young coders everywhere. She was proud to be honored in numerous 30 under 30 lists from the BBC to Business Insider to Elle Magazine. Her favorite non-work activity is running, followed by a dip in the ocean.
PARENTS, TEACHERS, AND KIDS
Love Hopscotch
— Paul, ICT Teacher
— TheJanik4, family
— Winning Monkey, Hopscotcher
— Michelle, mom