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Udacity: Udacious High School Student Launches Company With Team is Featured on TechCrunch!
We were really excited to hear about Andrew B., a 17 year-old High School student and Udacian. As part of a team of six, he recently launched Perfect Menu and was featured in TechCrunch -- congrats!Amazingly, Andrew’s only formal education in programming was from Udacity’s Intro to Computer Science (CS101) that he took as part of Da Vinci’s Lab, an initiative that has empowered high school students to take these college-level courses (thank you, Kevin English!). As Andrew shared, he has been focusing his current studies in math and computer sciences and wants to pursue long-term careers in these areas. And as for his CS101 experience, Andrew stated, “Udacity has helped me structure the way that I program. Before I took the course i have a very chaotic way of programming. Udacity really helped with this.”With that background, a few weeks ago Andrew participated at StartUp Weekend, in Bend, Oregon. At first he was hesitant…