‘Latinitas’ teaching coding and engineering to close gaps in tech industry



The nonprofit Latinitas is teaching tech skills like coding and engineering through camps and after-school clubs, all with the goal of closing the ethnic and gender gaps in the tech industry. NBC News’ Morgan Radford shares this story.
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10 comments

  1. If this girl even really had someone tell her she couldn't work in the tech industry because of her ethnicity or gender, then you can be assured it wasn't anyone that actually has the authority to hire her anyway. Any educational programs are nice but the only discrimination is when these same programs are not offered to all

  2. Just make sure they're legal or take everything they got.

  3. Robots are taking over, but why arent more women building them.

  4. It's less that women can't do science & technology more that they don't seem to be innately attracted to it as much as men naturally are.

    Affirmative Action can't change genetic predispositions towards curiosity about certain things. Men & Women are wired differently. Literally, biologically wired differently.

    That's just Science.

  5. What are the LATINIX doing??

  6. This is how you encourage kids and build people up. Tearing people down with critical theory, by race is the opposite of the right way to do things.

  7. NBC news, it appears your boy biden needs you to continue to minimize all his failures but to also to help the dems convince the American people that the economy is good. We look forward to your upcoming reports. So predictable, cant wait for your upcoming spin reports. On another note, isnt msnbc a nbc affiliate?

  8. Those gaps are because of racial differences, and they aren’t ever going away. Sorry. 🤷🏻‍♂️