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Seven students at an alternative high-tech coding school based in Fair Haven have been awarded cost-of-living scholarships sponsored by Facebook, Google, and Intel.
The Cloud Network of Women (CloudNOW), a national nonprofit consortium of leading female cloud computing executives, announced the scholarships Tuesday.
The scholarships have been awarded to seven students at New Haven’s Holberton School, which has campuses in the Elm City and in Silicon Valley and seeks to provide intensive, immersive coding education for students who don’t go through a more traditional high school and college educational path.
“Holberton School’s no-upfront tuition makes our education accessible to many, but attending is currently a full-time commitment, making it difficult sometimes for students to cover the cost of living,” Holberton School Co-Founder Sylvain Kalache is quoted as saying in the release. “CloudNOW, along with Facebook, Google, and Intel, has generously offered to help defray these costs by assisting our students who need extra help to attend.”
The New Haven-based students who received the scholarship are:
Kathleen McKiernan of North Haven
Flavio Espinoza of New Haven
Faizan Khan of Plainville
Hiram Velez of Easthampton, Mass.
Victor Rivera of New Haven
Christian Williams of West Haven
Jennifer Tang of Brooklyn, N.Y.
Click here to read the full press release. And here to read more about Holberton School.
