Horn Elementary is one of many schools in Houston ISD that accepted the opportunity to use a STEM program, known as GameSalad, in their classrooms for the first year for free.

In a tweet sent out during Hurricane Harvey, Alex Jones jumped on the chance to use the program the first year for free and contacted GameSalad.

Jones said the school principal has requested the focus be on coding and anything STEM related to help motivate children to follow an engineering or computer science career path.

"We have many things that are ready to use, technology wise, to show kids that yea, you're in elementary but you will have a job waiting for you if you chose STEM," Jones said.

Jones believes that children should have a voice so he asked his students to choose between Lego Robotics or to use GameSalad and create a video game.

The class will first follow a Monster Maze template already offered by GameSalad and if they catch on quickly then he would move to allow the students to create their own game from scratch.

In addition to encouraging STEM, Jones said he specifically wants girls to feel motivated and believe they too can become engineers and computer scientists.

"When you think of STEM you don't normally think of girls or they are pushed to the back, I want to inspire girls and let them know that they are just as valid as boys," Jones said.

He added that he wanted girls to understand that they can become whatever they want so long as they set their mind to it.

GameSalad is described by CEO Brent Dusing, as a program that districts all over the country could use to teach computer science.

In a recent study conducted by Pew Research Center, data from international math and science scores show that the U.S. rank 38 out of 71 countries in math and place 24 in science.

Dusing said that each year in America about a million coding jobs are created more than there are students who graduate with computer science degrees.

"We owe it to our nation's children to offer them opportunities to participate in 21st century economy," Dusing said.

Dusing said the goal of the program is to enable students from all walks of life to learn computer science in a way that is fun and engaging, while teaching real skills and aligning to state standers.

Offering the program for districts at no cost for one year was a duty Dusing said, because the company didn't want to let the disaster that affected so many homes to have an impact on the student's education.

"This kind of natural disaster is a massive blow to Houston families and their children," Dusing said. "We want to make sure those children's computer science education has no setback."

Jones mentioned that knowing the founder Tan Tran, is a Houston native was encouraging because this is a person who understood the community the program will serve.