Meeting Program: Design Code Build

Design Code Build, a coding academy for K-12.

Catherine Eng is an award-winning digital designer and developer from New York, and a principal of the brand and development consultancy, touchGrove. Her apps have been featured in Apple iTunes' Top 10 and Top 100 apps, and she has designed and developed popular and award-winning apps and websites for entertainment brands such as HBO, Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, Sony Music, Mattel, Tiger Beat Magazine, Next Management, and more. 

In 2015 she founded Design Code Build, a coding academy for K-12 to teach digital media from a project-based perspective, drawing from her real-world experiences in design and development. Most recently Design Code Build has worked with Girl Scouts San Diego on a successfully-funded Kickstarter campaign to provide a game development education to over 220 Girl Scouts at summer camps and workshops at UC San Diego to create a game on mobile and web platforms called "Marshmallow Run". The project has been featured in news online and in print and has support from the developer community around the world. 

Ms. Eng is currently working on educational projects with the Salk Institute, the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, the Moores Cancer Center, the San Diego French American School, San Diego Unified School District and the San Ysidro School District. She believes that the most lasting lessons in digital media come from projects tailored to the distinctive cultures and interests of each unique student community.