Dr. Nashlie Sephus, currently a software development manager with Amazon.com, visited the Mississippi Coding Academies classes in Jackson to tell them about the job and startup opportunities in coding and technology. Sephus, who is from Jackson and attended Jackson Public Schools, was Chief Technology Officer of the startup PartPic, which was eventually sold to Amazon. […]
The Mississippi Coding Academies were honored to be one of the partners for “Hack the Future,” the inaugural hackathon and advanced technologies event held in Neshoba County at the reservation of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. The event, which was coordinated by the MBCI’s Office of Economic Development, was centered on the idea of […]
The coders at Mississippi Coding Academies aren’t just learning web design and Python–a few of them took a crash course in Swift, Apple’s coding language for iOS development, and then began teaching it to others in Jackson. For years, the City of Jackson has had a “Summer Jobs Opportunity” program of one kind or another; […]
The Mississippi Coding Academies are proud to announce that Javier Peraza will be joining us an instructor at the Jackson campus as we plan to launch two new classes towards the end of June. Peraza comes to us with four years of experience teaching in Jackson Public Schools, where he also served as the debate […]
We’re thrilled with the coverage that the Golden Triangle’s class of the Mississippi Coding Academies received this month from WCBI in Columbus, serving North Mississippi. WCBI anchor Aundrea Self interviewed Mississippi Coding Academies coding instructor Andrew Stamps, along with two of the 2017-18 coders, Kingdom McGee and Leigh Jones. We’re very thankful to Aundrea Self […]
Mississippi Coding Academies received some great coverage from WAPT for the Jackson Mississippi Coding Academies, where reporter Earl Arms talked to instructor Herbert Brown and a number of the coders about their ambitions. Charlena Jackson, a coder, told Arms that doing this work makes her feel good. “It makes you feel like you’re smarter than […]
WLBT’s Rosalyn Anderson produced a great story about the Jackson class of the Mississippi Coding Academies, explaining the value of the program—which offers coding classes to recent high school and college grads at no cost to the student. “The free 11-month course teaches high school graduates with no coding experience four computer languages, affording them […]
Jackson, Miss. (December 12, 2017) – The W.K. Kellogg Foundation has awarded Innovate Mississippi a three-year, $1 million grant to help the newly formed Mississippi Coding Academies grow their current program in the city of Jackson from one academy to four academies over the next three years. The goal is to dramatically increase the number of […]
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