Reflections from a team of young developers on how they made interactive websites about DACA, in the process learning a whole lot about immigration policy, the ins-and-outs of data analysis, and the challenges–and rewards!–of learning to code.
Let’s be honest: a lot of us spend all day on our phones, hooked on our favorite apps. We keep…
I’ve been interning at a tech company that makes mobile apps. Being young, black and Muslim, it’s a little intimidating working in a place without many people of color.
It seems like everyone is talking about how more women need to go into technical careers. For a while I considered studying computer science. But I found myself craving something more tangible.
For many companies, the challenge goes beyond recruiting new female tech talent — the trick is retaining them.
Asha Richardson shares how we created West Side Stories (Oaktown) – our interactive map of gentrification at Creative Mornings. Creative Mornings is a breakfast lecture series for the creative community.
“Even though it’s lonely, that actually makes me work harder. I feel like us being in the computer science major is going to open up doors for younger women of color to go in.”
Not all code does good in the world. While a weekend hackathon or Javascript summer camp are great for exposure, it’s disingenuous to suggest these isolated experiences would prepare a young person for a full-time engineering gig at Snapchat.
Hello Internet! My name is Lo Bénichou and I am the new Innovation Lab Developer at Youth Radio. I’ll take…
