Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Coding Our Future LA Sends 200 South LA Students To Tech Camps

A new, philanthropic education effort--Coding Our Future LA--announced on Tuesday that it is sending 200, South LA students to summertime "tech camps", as part of a philanthropic and educational effort to increase opportunities for underserved youth in the technology space. The new effort, created by iD Tech Camps, Annenberg Foundation, and the LA Promise Fund, says the effort will recruit students from five, LA Promise Fund schools in the Los Angeles area, who are attending iD Tech Camps at the University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA) and Loyola Marymount University campuses from June 17 – June 21. The tuition for those students is being paid for by the Annenberg Foundation and iD Tech. The Coding Our Future LA group said the effort is aimed at addressing the massive and growing tech disparity present in society. In particular, the group said that although eighty percent of the region's future workforce is Latino and African American, only seven percent and eight percent of the national STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) workforce is African American and Latino, respectively.