"In partnership with McKinsey, we [at Facebook] launched TechPrep in October. It's an online resource hub that welcomes underrepresented minorities to computer science.
"We know from research that in Latino and black communities you're less likely to have computer science taught in your school. So therefore you're less likely to be the people graduating with degrees and with the skills we need to hire. We're using TechPrep to address this.
"There's a video on the site that illustrates TechPrep's mission perfectly, and makes me tear up every time I see it. It's about a woman named Karen, a black mother of four in Georgia who had few resources but decided after a job working for a startup that she would teach her kids about technology. She went out of her way to find online resources for her and her children so that they could learn to code. In December, he three oldest kids won first place in the 2015 Innovating Justice Challenge international competition for their app. Her older daughter is now studying computer science at Stanford, and I keep in touch with her."
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