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Coding and AI classes in Hawaii

Is computer science part of a Hawaii high school diploma?

Not as a named requirement. Hawaii Board of Education Policy 102-15 sets a 24.0-credit diploma in English, social studies, math, science, languages, arts or CTE, PE, health and a transition plan, with 6.0 elective credits where computer science can fit. Modern Age Coders teaches coding, AI and AP Computer Science live online for Hawaii students on any island, in batches or 1-on-1.

Hawaii's published computer science numbers tell an uncomfortable story. The share of high schools offering a course rose to 77% in 2021 to 2022 and has fallen in each year since, to 66.7% in 2024 to 2025, while the share of high school students enrolled dropped to 2.53%. Distance between islands, small schools and teacher supply all plausibly play a part, though the data alone cannot say which. This page sets out the Board of Education's diploma rule as written, the access and enrollment figures, a data project on the state library network that only needs coordinates, and why Hawaii class times are the easiest in the country to plan.

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Facts last verified 18 October 2026. Teaching is online; no Hawaii branch is claimed.

Course picks for Hawaii

Four courses for students on every island

All four run live online, so a student on Molokai has the same teacher and syllabus as one in Honolulu. A free trial lesson sets the level.

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Grades K to 5

Scratch Coding for Kids

Block coding through finished games, a strong first step where elementary computer science is limited.

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Grades 6 to 12

Python for Teens

Python from first lines to data projects, including the island bounding-box exercise on this page.

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Grades 7 to 12

HTML & CSS for Beginners

Real websites by hand, a useful elective-style skill for a student whose school has no web course.

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Grades 10 to 12

AP Computer Science Principles

AP CSP for students whose high school does not offer it, with the Create task and exam practice.

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Browse the course atlas for more than one hundred options and use the coding roadmap to check prerequisites.

The four we are known for

Python, AI, vibe coding and agentic coding

These run underneath everything above. Every one is live and online, placed by ability rather than by age, and the first class is free.

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Vibe codingAges 13 to 17

Vibe Coding for Teens

Python, web and AI projects where the learner still owns the thinking.

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Python and AICollege and adult

Python Automation Course

Automate the work you already do, then let AI carry part of it.

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AI and MLAges 14 to 18

AI and Machine Learning for Teens

Train a model, read what it learned, and be able to say why it is wrong.

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Agentic codingProfessionals

Codex & Claude Code

Run AI coding agents on real work without losing control of the codebase.

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The diploma rule

What Board Policy 102-15 requires for a Hawaii diploma

From the Hawaii State Board of Education's Policy 102-15, High School Graduation Requirements and Commencement, last amended on 02/12/2026 and read on 18 October 2026.

Minimum course and credit requirements for the Hawaii High School Diploma (Board Policy 102-15)
AreaCredits
English4.0
Social Studies4.0
Mathematics, including Algebra 1 and Geometry3.0
Science, including Biology3.0
World Language, Fine Arts or Career and Technical Education2.0
Physical Education1.0
Health, and Personal/Transition Plan0.5 each
Electives6.0
Total24.0

Where computer science fits

Computer science is not named in the policy's course areas. A school computer science course would normally count as an elective, or within the Career and Technical Education option, depending on how the course is authorized.

Proficiency counts

The policy lets students meet requirements through proficiency based equivalents, under a process the Department of Education sets up, alongside traditional courses.

Same rule for every student

Policy 102-15 states that the graduation requirement for students with disabilities is the same as for students without disabilities.

We tried to read the Hawaii Department of Education's own computer science pages and the Hawaii Revised Statutes on the legislature's site, but both returned security blocks to our requests in October 2026. So this page does not describe Hawaii's computer science standards, any law on course offerings, or department guidance; it relies on the Board policy above, which we could read in full.

The published counts

Hawaii computer science access peaked in 2021 to 2022

Access and participation for Hawaii from the Code.org (2025) data sheet, with College Board AP school counts, as published.

Seven years of Hawaii figures as the 2025 Code.org sheet lists them
YearSchools with a courseShare of students taking one
2018 to 201957%No value
2019 to 202062%No value
2020 to 202172%4.4%
2021 to 202277%4.3%
2022 to 202372%3.0%
2023 to 202471.6%3.55%
2024 to 202566.7%, or 46 of 692.53%, or 1,317 of 51,961

A small denominator

With 69 high schools in the count, a single school dropping its course moves the share by about 1.4 points, by our arithmetic. Small totals swing; read the trend, not one year.

Two sources blended

The sheet names the Hawaii basis as "State Education Agency and School Catalogs", combining an official file with course listings.

AP held steady

The College Board counts 76 Hawaii schools giving AP exams in 2023 and 75 in 2024, with 47 public schools in both years.

The enrollment figure divides 1,317 students by an NCES count of 51,961 high school students for fall 2022, so it is Code.org's approximation rather than a census of 2024 to 2025 classrooms. Even so, about one high schooler in forty taking computer science is low, and it is the main reason families on the neighbor islands look for classes outside school. Cite as: Code.org (2025). 2025 State of AI + CS Education. Hawaii values are quoted singly.

Signature project

Which island is each library on? Sorting points with bounding boxes

The Hawaii Statewide GIS Program publishes the 51 branches of the Hawaii State Public Library System as public-domain open data, each with latitude, longitude and an island label. Students ignore the label, place every point with coordinates alone, then check themselves against it.

State public libraries by island (our counts from the Statewide GIS layer, downloaded 18 October 2026)
IslandBranchesListed with computer classes
Oahu2511
Hawaii Island124
Kauai62
Maui62
Molokai11
Lanai10
All islands5120

1. Draw six boxes

For each island, students choose a minimum and maximum latitude and longitude, our own rough rectangles, then test every library with four comparisons: inside if lat_min <= y <= lat_max and lon_min <= x <= lon_max.

2. Check against the label

Our six boxes put all 51 branches on the island the layer names, 51 of 51. That agreement is the evidence the boxes work, and a student should report it before trusting any box-based count.

3. Find the weak spots

Rectangles are crude. Maui, Molokai and Lanai sit close together, so a careless box catches the wrong coast; students tighten edges and learn why real tools use polygon outlines instead.

Ours, from public-domain data

The boxes and counts are our teaching results from one download. The state publishes the layer as public domain with no warranty of accuracy, and opening hours change, so the 28 branches listed as open on Saturday and the 3 open on Sunday are the layer's values on that day, not a current timetable.

The coordinates span latitudes 19.06 to 22.21 and longitudes -159.67 to -154.94, which is the first sanity check: any point outside that frame is a data error. A strong extension measures how far each library is from the next nearest one on the same island, which turns a filtering exercise into a distance one and says something real about access on the neighbor islands.

Class times

Hawaii Standard Time, unchanged since 1947

Hawaii keeps one clock all year with no daylight saving, which makes scheduling with India unusually simple.

No clock changes

In the IANA database, Hawaii's zone has been plain HST, UTC minus 10, since June 8, 1947, with no daylight saving rule attached. Your class time never moves.

A fixed gap to India

By our arithmetic India is always 15 hours 30 minutes ahead of Hawaii, so a 4 pm class in Honolulu is 7:30 the next morning for the teacher, all year.

The mainland moves instead

Each fall and spring, when the mainland moves its clocks (next on the first Sunday of November 2026 and the second Sunday of March 2027), Hawaii stays still. Your gap to the West Coast shifts by an hour, but your class time stays put.

History in the database

Before 1947 the islands kept a half-hour offset, UTC minus 10:30, and the database records a brief stretch of daylight time in 1933, from April 30 to May 21. Students who convert old Hawaii time stamps learn why historical data needs the zone name, not a fixed offset.

Learning ladder

A route from kindergarten blocks to AP, island to island

Bands are approximate; the teacher in the free first session decides where to start.

Grades K to 3

Blocks and stories

Animated stories and simple games in blocks, with sequencing and loops at the center.

Coding for KidsScratch Coding for Kids
Grades 4 to 6

First Python

Turtle drawings, small games and an early look at how AI tools learn from examples.

Python and AI for KidsAI Literacy for Kids (Ages 8 to 14)
Grades 7 to 9

Code and the web

Python with real data and websites built by hand, the skills behind the libraries project.

Python for TeensHTML & CSS for Beginners
Grades 10 to 12

AP and AI

AP Computer Science Principles, or machine learning with models the student trains and tests.

AP Computer Science PrinciplesAI and Machine Learning for Teens
Coding and AI

Ask an AI which island a coordinate is on, then check it

A language model can guess an island from a latitude and longitude. A student with a bounding box can prove it.

AI assistants are often right about well-known places and quietly wrong about edge cases, such as a point near the channel between Maui and Molokai. A guess delivered fluently is still a guess, and there is no way to tell from the answer alone.

The bounding-box project gives students a method they can verify: four comparisons, a check against a labeled list, and a count of disagreements. Once they can do that, an AI tool becomes something to test rather than something to trust.

With fewer Hawaii students taking computer science each year in the published data, the ones who learn to verify an answer stand out. The longer argument is in our view on learning to code with AI around.

Delivery

From Hilo to Hanalei, no inter-island flight required

For neighbor-island families, a live online class removes the biggest barrier: distance.

Flexible scheduling

Weekdays or weekends, flexible: choose your batch, or for a very personalised plan choose 1-on-1 at your convenience, weekend mornings or weekdays.

Small live groups

A batch brings together fifteen to twenty learners of similar ability from Hawaii and the mainland, all with the same live teacher.

One-to-one

A private teacher for AP preparation, a larger project or a student whose school offers no computer science course.

Alongside school

Teachers work with US grade levels and can connect lessons to school courses, while graded school work remains the student's own.

Try it free

Your student spends one whole session coding with a teacher. At the end you get honest advice on level and course, and nothing is charged or stored.

Home setup

Any laptop or desktop will do, plus headphones or speakers. A steady home broadband line matters more than a fast computer.

No Hawaii office

Teachers work live from India. Modern Age Coders has no premises in Hawaii and claims none, and we are not connected with the Hawaii State Department of Education, the Board of Education or the public library system.

Fees

What classes cost in Hawaii

The same three amounts as everywhere in the US, in US dollars.

First classUSD 0

A free introductory lesson that ends with a level and course suggestion.

Group tuitionUSD 100

A month of live batch lessons with fifteen to twenty students at your level.

Private tuitionUSD 150

A month of private lessons with a single teacher, on a regular weekly schedule.

Kauai, Maui or Honolulu, the monthly figure in US dollars is identical and there is no neighbor-island extra. Nothing is due before the trial lesson, and our pricing page sets out how holidays and missed sessions are handled.

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Reviews

Reviews from families, on Google

Rated 4.9 across 547 Google reviews. These are real reviews, reproduced as written.

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"The one step solution for my son. Modern Age Coders make learning coding so simple that kids love it. The teachers explain complex concepts clearly with practical exercises and interactive content."

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"Modern Age Coders has been a game-changer for me. I struggled to grasp IT concepts and coding before joining, but their classes transformed everything. I can now confidently write complex programs with ease."

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Student

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"One of the most wonderful education centres out there. Education is not limited to school syllabus but focuses on skill development."

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★★★★★

"My child Dhairya is really enjoying the Modern Age Coders classes. This is his first online class and he eagerly looks forward to it. I can already see his improvement, and the teachers are very cooperative."

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"Modern Age Coders have wonderful teachers who teach in a clear, easy and practical way. The teacher boosts students' confidence and inspires them to learn without hesitation."

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FAQ

Hawaii families ask

Common questions from parents and students across the islands.

How many credits does a Hawaii diploma need?

Board of Education Policy 102-15 sets a minimum of 24.0 credits, including 4.0 English, 4.0 social studies, 3.0 mathematics, 3.0 science and 6.0 electives.

Is computer science required to graduate in Hawaii?

Policy 102-15 does not name computer science among its course areas. A school computer science course would usually count as an elective or within the CTE option.

How many Hawaii high schools offer computer science?

The 2025 Code.org sheet reports 46 of 69, or 66.7%, for 2024 to 2025, down from 77% in 2021 to 2022.

How many Hawaii students take computer science?

For 2024 to 2025 the sheet reports 1,317 of 51,961 high school students, or 2.53%, using an NCES fall 2022 student total.

Do class times change in Hawaii when the mainland changes clocks?

No. Hawaii stays on HST all year, so your class time is fixed; only the gap to mainland time zones changes.

What timing options are there?

Weekdays or weekends, flexible: choose your batch, or for a very personalised plan choose 1-on-1 at your convenience, weekend mornings or weekdays.

Can students on Molokai or Lanai join?

Yes. Any island works if the home connection supports a video call; audio and screen sharing matter most for coding lessons.

Why does this page not describe Hawaii's CS standards?

The Department of Education and legislature sites blocked our automated requests in October 2026, and we only print rules we have read at the source.

Are lessons taught in Hawaii?

No. All lessons are live online with teachers based in India, and we do not claim any Hawaii location.

Where can I see the fees?

In the fees section on this page: a free first lesson, then a monthly batch or 1-on-1 plan in US dollars, billed only after the free lesson.

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