Primary Job Title CEO & Co-Founder Primary Organization 
ThoughtSTEM
Location San Diego, California, United States Regions Greater San Diego Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
Website www.stephenfoster.us Facebook View on Facebook LinkedIn View on LinkedIn X (Twitter) View on X
Stephen Foster has been programming computers since Kindergarten. Before applying as a graduate student to UC San Diego, Dr. Foster had 5 years of experience working in industry under his belt. While a graduate student in the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering at UCSD, Stephen Foster helped develop CodeSpells as a research prototype for
teaching children how to code. Today, Dr. Foster has a strong technical background in software engineering. Since founding ThoughtSTEM in 2012, Dr. Foster has led all software development efforts of ThoughtSTEM’s e-learning technologies, including LearnToMod, Vox-L, and CodeSpells.
