SMU School of Information Systems freshman and three-time hackathon winner Kong Yu Jian recently co-founded premier programming school Coding Labs. He and Ian Lam, co-founder of cohesion.sg and bubblesoccer.sg, started the school after seeing that there was a lack of coding schools for youths, even as the demand for programmers increase. The school aims to give children and youth a formal education in programming and imbue in them the skills needed for them to create their own innovations.