Grants Help Bring Tech Training To New Haven Kids

LEAP recently received two grants specifically for this program, a total of $15,000

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By Ryan Flynn

New Haven Register

NEW HAVEN >> Paris Huckaby, 15, a student at James Hillhouse High School, already knows how to code a website.

Three days a week, Paris and a dozen other students file into the computer lab at LEAP to learn how to debug or design patterns or functions in HTML code.

Computer science major Jacqueline Wellington, who attends the University of Rhode Island, interns with LEAP, and recently was helping four girls design buttons on a live website. She said the girls, all 15 or 16, are breezing through some things that give college students trouble.

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