Events

Google Code Next

Google Code Next is Google's free computer science program for Black, Latinx, Indigenous and other underrepresented middle and high school students. Students learn coding, AI, game design and UX from Google engineers and mentors, and build real projects for their communities. For four years, we documented it in New York, NY.

Four yearsA long term partner to the program

Photo and videoEvery event, start to finish

Students firstTheir projects, their moments

Built to growContent to share the program's story

Students and guests filling the room for a Code Next showcase, with Code Next Chelsea, New York on the screens

The program's mantra is “Think. Make. Lead.” Our job was to show it happening: students building, presenting and celebrating, so the team could share the program's impact and bring it to more students.

Showcases

Students presenting the apps, games and prototypes they built, to Google mentors, families and guests.

Light up CODE NEXT letters on a Google NYC table in front of the crowd at a winter showcase

A student presenting a project on stage, seen past the audience

A student presenting at the Spring Showcase as the audience watches

A student demoing a project on stage under a DEMO screen

The closing slide of a showcase: Thank you everyone for coming! Think, Make, Lead

A packed audience at the Spring Showcase

A student presenting at a summer showcase to a seated crowd

A student presenting a health project in front of a large Code Next screen

Families and mentors watching student presentations at a summer showcase

Blue and green Google cubes on the showcase stage

A student built robot with colored wires on the showcase floor

Hackathons

Teams racing the clock to build something new, from the first sketch on the whiteboard to the final demo.

A team mapping out their hackathon project on a whiteboard

A laptop showing code beside the app the team built

A student writing the team's progress on a whiteboard

A team gathered around a laptop during the hackathon

A Google Code Next water bottle beside a student working on a laptop

Teams presenting their hackathon projects to the room

A session on public speaking before the final demos

The full group of hackathon students and mentors

Mixers and Mentors

Students and alumni meeting Google engineers, designers and tech professionals, and building the network that comes with the program.

Alumni and mentors mingling in the Code Next lab

A mentor talking with students at the alumni event

A bingo card at the mentors and coaches party

Hands building a gingerbread house at the alumni event

Mentors and students at tables in the Code Next lab

An idk, Google it pillow in the Code Next lab

Light up CODE NEXT letters on a shelf of student built projects

Alumni and mentors gathered on the lab steps

Holiday Celebrations

The end of year celebration, with student performances, prizes and the whole program in one room.

The holiday celebration in a room lit red and green, with a presenter on stage

A performer playing guitar and singing on the holiday stage

A dancer performing at the holiday celebration

The Code Next New York City Holiday Showcase title on screen

A dancer leaping across the holiday stage

Students and mentors on stage at the holiday showcase

Students and mentors celebrating together on the holiday stage

Keynotes and Speakers

Program leads, Google mentors and students taking the stage. We film and photograph every talk, then cut the highlights into one reel the team can share.