Education is a huge issue in the US, look at the student debt, people are loosing their job and cannot access education, yet many companies— Sylvain Kalache (@SylvainKalache) June 15, 2017
Including @amazon are struggling to find the diverse skilled workforce they need. We need a new college that provides high quality education— Sylvain Kalache (@SylvainKalache) June 15, 2017
To the most. That's what I started 2 years ago. It's a program training software Engineers. Blind admission process, no upfront tuition— Sylvain Kalache (@SylvainKalache) June 15, 2017
We end up w/ a diverse group: 40% women, 50% POC. All walks of life: teacher, musician, cashier, high school graduates, poker player...— Sylvain Kalache (@SylvainKalache) June 15, 2017
They end up working in Tech companies including prestigious ones like @NASA, @Apple, @LinkedIn, @Dropbox, @creditkarma , @nvidia— Sylvain Kalache (@SylvainKalache) June 15, 2017
The education brings hard skills for immediate need -> a job. Also train student on learn how to learn to continue to grow -> lasting impact— Sylvain Kalache (@SylvainKalache) June 15, 2017
Also diversify the "Tech industry" with a non bias selection process. We need to solve this discrimination issue quickly for a sane society— Sylvain Kalache (@SylvainKalache) June 15, 2017