SAN ANTONIO -- Learning to code can be a daunting task, but Gus Garcia Middle School is encouraging its students to develop coding skills, and wants to teach their parents too.

• Event known as Gus Garcia Family Code Jam
• Featured stations with video games, robots, coding languages and website hacking

On Saturday, the school hosted the first-ever Gus Garcia Family Code Jam. The middle school set up 10 coding stations in different classrooms.

The students could sit with their parents to work on various activities and learn or further develop their coding skills.

"There are a lot of job vacancies in coding in San Antonio, so we want to see if maybe they're interested in going into that field in the future,” said Lynn Dixon-Gonzales, Gus Garcia Middle School librarian and organizer of Family Code Jam.

The event was designed to give students the opportunity to explore coding to see if it's something they might want to pursue in high school and beyond. The school also wanted to inform parents of the opportunities for coders and answer their questions.

“It's for everybody, and also a lot of our parents don't really understand what coding is,” Dixon-Gonzales said. “Even the kids, they don't necessarily make the connection with writing code and playing a video game," said Dixon-Gonzales.

The event featured stations with video games, robots, coding languages and website hacking.