the winner of this year s innovation challenge is one of the highlights of this year s education nation was the innovation challenge, a week-long competition where teams compete in a series of challenges aimed at expanding opportunities for students. and the winners of this year s challenge were zack gallant and jeremy keeshan of the team code hs, a company designed to teach beginners the basicses of computer science and programming in a way that has anyone the ability to learn it. and i m pleased to be joint by both, as well as david saltzman, executive director of the robin
hood foundation, one of the judges. thank you for being here. and thanks for your dog. yeah. we re very excited to bring carl, the dog along with us, who has traveled around the country. you have now explained i was going to ask carol s name. tell us what the dog has to do the idea, it s really important for us to make teaching beginning computer science accessible. and so the way we do that is by starting with carol, the dog. so the idea is giving commands to a computer is kind of like giving commands to a dog so you start off step by step and it builds up from there. gotcha. except for the computer won t pee on your floor. and go over to you, zack. you guys won $75,000 as part of this competition. what are you going to use that for to build your business, build this company? right. well, it s a lot of money, and it s definitely really helpful. right now a lot of our focus is working with schools, providing resources for the teachers we re using that are using code hs