Coding Skills and Employment to overcome COVID-19

Cristian is an 18 year old young man, born in Frontino - Antioquia, and his biggest dream since he was a child was to be come a programmer. A year ago, when he received his high school diploma, he began to take virtual courses and learn English. When he learned about Academia Geek, he was interested and applied for the scholarship.  The first time he tried it he did not pass, but he continued preparing and in September 2021 he over came the challenges and began his training. It was weeks of hard study, but he always felt accompanied and supported in the process by his family, mentors and fellow Academy members. "In the training I did very well, it is a short time, but you learn too much and also make friends forever" says Juan David.  

On December 23 he presented his final project and began his employability process with the Academia Geek team. Today Juan David works as a Junior FrontEnd Engineer with headquarters in the city of New York - United States, he works remotely from the city of Medellin, where he lives with his mother and sister whom he supports thanks to his new living conditions.  He dreams of continuing his training in programming because as he says "Knowledge is power" and this is a very large fiel of action that needs continuous learning.  

So far in 2022, Academia Geek has given continuity to the training of 49 people who began their training in the last months of 2021, we started the formation of 2 new groups that bring together 68 men and women from all corners of Colombia and our goal for 2022 is to train around 250 people in programming and web development, who like Cristian David, receive the necessary tools in being and know ledge, to get a job in the IT sector.  

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