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Learning to Code Software in Kindergarten

Christina Lazar
Mike Switzer/SC Public Radio

You’ve heard us talk about code schools on this program many times over recent years, as the demand for software developers continues to rise.  But you probably had no idea that there is now a code school for 5-year-olds, right here in South Carolina.

Mike Switzer interviews Christina Lazar, franchise owner of Code Ninjas in Tega Cay, SC.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.