Sledgehammer Academy

Sledgehammer Academy, a side project of Sledgehammer Infosystems & founder Brad Thompson, offers training on a variety of tech & organizational leadership topics for kids, teens, and the young-at-heart. Whether your 4th grader is ready to move to something beyond playing in Scratch, you've got a group of high schoolers trying to figure out how to build the next Instagram, or you've got a kid who wants to explore how to use technology to support their other pursuits, we're ready to help!

What We Do

Unlike a lot of other coding schools for kids, we've chosen a slightly more holistic and artisinal sort of approach to what & how we teach. This isn't a boot camp to prepare our students for a job at a huge tech company. We give our students the skills they need to leverage the technology around them to make an impact right now, while still providing many useful experiences & skills to support a potential big tech career down the road. Our goal is to make sure that our students have a solid foundation in not only writing code, but everything that goes into building & publishing technology tools for people - including IT, networking, UI & UX design, project management, and entrepreneurship skills. We strive to fuel our students' internal motivation for solving problems by empowering them to plan, create, evaluate, and iterate on their work with the support of experienced computing enthusiasts. We believe that fostering these skills early on sets the stage for a lifetime of learning and achievement.