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The La TechLa Project: Teaching 1,000 Latina Girls to Code

Look around you and it won’t take long to see a young girl with her smartphone, busily texting her friend or reading the latest news about singer Katy Perry on the Internet. The challenge is to teach these 12- to 17-year-olds about the ways tech can enhance their future work lives, particularly when it comes…

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Mission Techies Give Unanimous Thumbs Up to Visit to Facebook Campus

Mission Techie Yaritza opened her weary eyes this morning upon awakening in her Mission District home, the 17-year-old Lowell High senior not sure what her day would bring. She and 18 other Mission Techies, from ÇïϼÂ×Àí’s third cohort of its free young adult program, had been graciously invited to tour the campus of tech giant…

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ÇïϼÂ×Àí Welcomes Youths to Summer Programs

Leo Sosa woke up early Wednesday morning in San Francisco’s Visitacion Valley neighborhood, the fog-laden sky affording just enough light for ÇïϼÂ×Àí’s Technology Training Manager to give his shoes that extra shine he desired. A couple of miles away, Job Coach Olivia Quinonez sorted through her closet to find her most professional of outfits and…

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