Deplorable Camp Coding Academy (BCCA) hosted every the Class of 2020 and the Class of 2021 and their guests for graduation, and BCCA has introduced on two fresh group members this month.
Class of 2020 and Class of 2021 Graduation Ceremonies
On Saturday, August 14th, 2021, Deplorable Camp Coding Academy (BCCA) hosted two graduation ceremonies at Everest. Since the Class of 2020 became as soon as unable to fill its occupy in-person ceremony closing year, we desired to honor them in person this year. We also hosted the graduation ceremony for the Class of 2021 since they excellent carried out the program on August 13th attributable to the Covid-delayed delivery up closing year. The Class of 2020 graduated Saturday morning, and the Class of 2021 graduated after a joint lunch hosted within the giant commence home at the support of Everest.
We were fortunate sufficient to fill the extraordinary Megan Smith keep up a correspondence at every ceremonies. Megan is the extinct United States Chief Expertise Officer, and he or she within the meanwhile serves because the Chief Executive Officer of shift7. Megan spoke to the college students about inclusion, files bias, the pursuit of files, and making a distinction within the enviornment via technology. She impressed them to make employ of their fresh abilities to champion causes they care about and search out ways to make a distinction of their local communities. It became as soon as an extraordinarily attractive and enlightening talk.
We are so satisfied with the total graduates and so grateful to the total families, mentors, group, board members, and sponsors that helped make that you would imagine every student’s worthwhile completion of this program.
Original Director and Technical Director
Deplorable Camp is angry to suppose the hiring of two fresh group members! Brittany Cohen started on August 2nd, 2021 because the fresh Technical Director, and Sean Ennis will delivery up because the fresh Director on August 23rd, 2021.
Of direction, we’re sad to gawk our extinct Technical Director Nate Clark and Director Fernae Ellard tear away. However, they’re every exciting on to thrilling fresh alternatives that will preserve them connected to Deplorable Camp via the place pipeline, and we’re very grateful for their continued give a increase to of our program.
Each and each Brittany and Sean bring fresh perspectives to Deplorable Camp via their unfamiliar old experiences.
Brittany Cohen is from Clarksdale, MS and has over five years of journey in education. Previously, she became as soon as the Engineering and Exploring Computer Science teacher for the North Panola Faculty District. While in education, she became as soon as awarded 2020 Trainer of the Year by Panola Partnership. She graduated from Mississippi Valley Teach College with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.
Sean Ennis holds a BA in Philosophy from LaSalle College and a MFA in fiction writing from the College of Mississippi. He has served as a Writing and Literature Trainer and an Academic Mentor at the College of Mississippi. He is the writer of Scoot Us: Tales published by Shrimp A, an effect of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He lives in Water Valley, MS.
About Deplorable Camp Coding Academy
Positioned in Water Valley, MS, the non-profit Deplorable Camp Coding Academy (BCCA) is a fingers-on, grand and relaxing program, designed to practice fresh high college graduates to be tool engineers. In a tiny school room environment, college students work with exact world technologies to be taught the fundamentals of coding, app pattern and the existence leadership abilities they’ll must be worthwhile of their profession and competitive within the job market. The year-long program is free to college students attributable to the give a increase to of Sustaining Sponsors including the MorganWhite Neighborhood, CoreLogic, Renasant Financial institution, CSpire, and FedEx and objectives to support cope with the non-public sector’s historical scarcity of high-tech educated labor by practising local early life to fill the positions. Yearly, Mississippi has 1,200 unfilled computing jobs and no longer as a lot as 200 laptop science graduates.
Everest, also located in Water Valley, Omit., is a partnership with Northwest Mississippi Neighborhood Faculty, The Metropolis of Water Valley, Delta Regional Authority, and corporate and philanthropic sponsors to manufacture Mississippi’s first Rural Education and Innovation Hub offering tech and tech adjacent group practising on this beforehand underserved build of Mississippi.
