Open Access: How a Nonprofit is Giving Techies Without Tuition Their Shot

A nonprofit founded by a former Army officer is taking participants with an average salary of $26,000 and turning them into code masters.

In a crowded classroom on a recent Saturday morning in a donated community college space in Queens, New York, more than 20 students were huddled together learning the basics of building Android apps. The scene wasn't too different from any learn-to-code intensive, as these things go. There were bagels outside, and teachers urgently getting the projector ready before the lesson kicked off. But the differences were apparent when students were asked to introduce themselves: They told stories of coming from Siberia, Ethiopia, Brazil, and even the Bronx.

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