Microsoft Awards Cultivating Coders $300,000! Woohoo!

"TechHIre Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico" is celebrating our training partner, Cultivating Coders! Congratulations!

As noted in the Albuquerque Journal: YouthSpark awarded a $300,000 grant to New Mexico’s Cultivating Coders program to help finance a summer boot camp for high school students in Albuquerque. Cultivating Coders, which offers intensive eight-week training workshops for aspiring web and software developers, is launching a series of summer programs this year for youths around the state to teach them coding skills they can  share with their peers in new after-school coding clubs, said founder and president Charles Ashley III. Microsoft YouthSpark is a global initiative launched three years ago to help more young people learn computer science. YouthSpark managers focus on extending technology and computer skills to underserved communities, a goal Cultivating Coders shares as part of its guiding principles."

With your help, more students in our region can participate. you Contact us to help fund scholarships for students in Espanola to participate this summer in the upcoming Cultivating Coders Bootcamp in Northern New Mexico  at info@nmtechworks.com.

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