StreetCode Academy Launches Weekend Hackathon Party to bring Coding Skills to East Palo Alto High Schoolers
Hackathon Represents Latest Coding Skills Opportunity for East Palo Alto High Schoolers.
- San Jose, CA (1888PressRelease) November 14, 2014 - On November 15, in a follow up to its successful inaugural StreetCode Summer Camp [www.epacoding.org] Live In Peace and the Sequoia Union High School District will support the StreetCode Academy to help East Palo Alto high schoolers and recent high school graduates learn key technical and coding skills that will directly and rapidly enable them to cross Silicon Valley's formidable digital divide.
With accomplished tech luminaries and mentors who will provide basic coding skills to make websites, video games and iOS and Android mobile apps in a real-world challenge hackathon environment, the StreetCode Academy Weekend Hackathon also gives attendees the opportunity for self expression through a hip hop dance workshop, basketball, a mixed martial arts training session and a beatboxing workshop.
"The digital divide is still widening. Today there are entrepreneurs and businesses that are succeeding, while many of our youth in East Palo Alto are still being left behind," said Heather Starnes, Executive Director of Live In Peace.
"This weekend's hackathon coding, media, arts and professionalism. These activities will be part of a larger movement to demonstrate the power of our community and our integrated approach of CS and high-tech classes, character and professional development, as well as a community-based hacker space will foster a culture of innovation to grow students' enthusiasm for learning," said Olatunde Sobomehin, StreetCode Academy Director.
"Many successful valley entrepreneurs, veteran engineers, and others are looking for meaningful ways to teach the key coding skills which will enable young people to create mobile apps, websites and contribute to other in-demand projects," said Shadi Barhoumi, StreetCode Co-Founder.
About StreetCode Academy
StreetCode Academy is Palo Alto's only tech-focused community center where youth and adults learn industry-relevant technical skills. We leverage the interest and talent of EPA youth already engaged in culturally relevant technology and social media to train youth in 21st century technology skills. StreetCode Academy trains our students in skills ranging from Python to web, and from graphic design to game design. Our staff comes from industry, East Palo Alto and Stanford.
StreetCode Academy is a program of Live In Peace, an East Palo Alto non-profit committed to advancing a culture of non-violence, healing, and power. The StreetCode Academy accomplishes this mission by creating an innately sustainable and self-sufficient model that empowers youth and young adults to unlock their personal and collective power of creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship. The StreetCode Academy increases youth's mobility and access to opportunities and therefore, brings the innovation and creativity of the streets to the tech industry and the tech jobs to the streets.
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