Every child has a story worth telling.
Where literacy, the arts, and computational thinking meet: K–12 students write, code, and publish interactive stories. Our mission is to raise writers — readers, revisers, storytellers — who happen to learn computer science along the way.
Why we built it
Kids are writing less — and liking it less. Not because they have nothing to say, but because school writing has one reader and one outcome: the teacher, and a grade.
So we changed what writing becomes. On Elementari, a draft turns into something that moves — illustrated, coded, narrated in the student’s own voice — and gets published to real readers. The story earns an audience; the audience earns a second draft. The coding, the art, the computer science? Learned along the way, making something worth sharing.
That’s the whole idea: blur the line between the humanities and the sciences until girls, storytellers, artists — and plenty of teachers — find themselves coding, and kids who’d never pick up a pencil find themselves writing.
What we believe
Used by teachers in literacy, arts, and coding curriculums, with lessons aligned to Common Core, NGSS, CSTA, ISTE, and AASL standards.
The team
A small team of educators, engineers, and artists who’ve stood in front of a classroom and know what a lesson has to survive. Every feature ships because a teacher needed it.