Goodbye Solorios! We’ll Miss You!

Solorio Family Becomes Integral Part of TriV Community In Short Time Written by: Kristin Goedert & Valerie Freitas; Photos: Kristin Goedert & Tina Joe We are very sad to share that some important members of TriValley CoderDojo are moving on to new pastures in another part of the San Francisco Bay Area. Alfredo, Caleb and…

Meet The Mentor: Josephine Lam

Code Monkey Mentor Extraordinaire Written by: Jocelyn Combs and Valerie Freitas; Photo credit: Jocelyn Combs Josephine started attending TriValley CoderDojo meetings last summer. She was looking for coding classes for her sons, because they enjoyed computer games so much, but her family found the club instead, and since then they have never looked back. Although Josephine is…

Farewell to Special Friends

Volunteers Honored for Contributions Written by: Jocelyn Combs and Valerie Freitas Photo Credits: Jocelyn Combs, Chika Sekimoto, and Munish Matai In 2013, Jamie Heston, a Bay Area native and Hayward resident, was looking for a way for her two home-schooled sons, Ashton and Kaleb, to learn programming. She tried to teach them herself with discs…