Fueled by investments from Facebook and WDI, KingstonCanCode is the Hudson Valley’s only comprehensive program for computer coding and digital literacy instruction, workforce training and development, and career connections Kingston, NY – AlbanyCanCode, a nonprofit dedicated to creating a new generation of software coders, today announced the organization’s first expansion outside of New York’s Capital Region with the launch of...
We join our partners, colleagues, families and friends in solidarity with the black community as we reflect on this moment of heartache in our nation. We are adding our voice as we seek to reinforce and deepen our commitment to underrepresented individuals, and grow in our understanding of what is needed ahead. Let us not measure the timeliness of our...
2016-2017: 23 graduates, 10 lives transformed A year ago we had one workforce program: our pilot 12-week course at SCCC, begun in October 2016, graduated January 2017. From that Fall 2016 cohort of nine, by mid-2017 three had springboarded from limo service, barback, and unemployed status to dream jobs: front end developer, data analyst, digitally empowered business owner. The two who found full time...
The Times Union’s Leadership Luncheon held on November 30, 2017, at the Hearst Media Center, opened with comments from Albany Can Code Executive Director Janet Carmosky. Her point, which became the theme of the one hour discussion: we have employers, we have educators, we have talent. The missing magic ingredient: a culture that encourages broad tech literacy. Other panelists: Heather Briccetti, President and...
How did this Albany Can Code thing start? Long story with lots of people and parts. One part is: the piece about being a grassroots organization aiming to get non-traditional talent into the pipeline for software careers. We didn’t invent that. Here are some of our sources of inspiration. There’s Code Louisville, organized by the workforce development board...
