Currently, only 5 percent of the tech workforce is Black and only 18 percent of the people studying computer science in American universities are Black. However, analyst envision that there will be 1.4 million new jobs in technology by 2020.
“One million of those jobs will go unfilled at the rate we’re going,” Powers said. “Our fellows leave with the skills, experience, confidence and connections to succeed. Technology is in every industry. It’s in sports, music, travel. Each of these industries relies on technology to function. They all have apps. Coding is really just a computer-related way to solve a problem.”
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