‘Latinitas’ teaching coding and engineering to close gaps in tech industry
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- 26 Dec 2023
The nonprofit Latinitas is teaching tech skills like coding and engineering through camps and after-school clubs, all with the goal ...
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Back now with a closer look at the tech industry and a new push to bring more Latinas into the workforce that has the biggest tech companies taking notice. Morgan Bradford has more.
For these high school and middle school students in Austin, Texas. Ready to go. The gears are turning.
So these are robots that you.
All build? Yes, yes. All thanks to a nonprofit called Latinitas, which teaches tech skills like coding and engineering through camps and after school clubs like this one. Hoping to close the ethnic and gender gap in technology.
Do you all see a lot of Latinas in tech? Do you think people expect to see Latinas in tech? No. No? Why not?
Because they see more guys instead of girls, especially Latinas.
Even though Hispanic workers make up 17% of all employees, just 8% are working in Stem Fields, and only 3% of those workers are Hispanic women.
We're hearing from students who didn't know that these careers were possible.
Students like Camila Gorines, who attended their co-chica camp just three years ago. Now she's studying computer science in college and earning a living with a job in information technology.
Somebody has told me that I couldn't make it in this field, and I remember telling my mom about it.
Okay, so let me just back this up. You wanted to do computer science? Yes. And someone.
Told you? That I wasn't able to do it.
Because?
For who I am as a person and also for being a woman.
What did you think when you met other Latinas who were doing coding, who were doing robotics?
Seeing women like me, Latinitas, it was so inspiring. It made me just want to keep doing computer science.
And keep cracking the code to create a tech future for everyone. Morgan Bradford, BBC News, Austin.
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