The Beacon Council, through JPMorgan Chase, recently contributed $30,000 to Miami-Dade College’s Idea Center to be used to create Webdev, a new course that allows participants to learn from the ground up on how to build responsive websites in eight weeks.
The new class was launched on July 19.
“By the year 2020, more than 60 percent of managerial positions will require coding as a skill,” said Idea Center’s executive director Leandro Finol. “Webdev is a great chance for anybody to take a first step into the coding world.”
The contribution is part of JPMorgan Chase’s New Skills at Work, a five-year $250 million global initiative to leverage resources, expertise, and global reach to help inform and accelerate efforts to support demand-driven skills training for adult.
In addition, JP Morgan Chase launched a program to expand skills-based education for young people. New Skills for Youth is a $75 million program to help solve the youth unemployment crisis.
Participants in Webdev will learn HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript to become fully capable of creating a responsive website, freelance as a web developer or boost their marketing and design skills in their professional careers.
The eight-week program will run through September with classes meeting on Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.