A coding bootcamp with equity as its mission is coming to Philadelphia.

Six-year-old, Black and Latinx-led nonprofit Resilient Coders, based in Boston, will begin its Philly expansion next month with a pilot class of 10 students. Over 20 weeks, students are taught HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, React, Node and MongoDB, as well as soft skills, at no cost. The bootcamp reports high success for its grads, all of which are people color: In 2019, 85% of the program’s graduates found jobs averaging $90,000 in salary within six weeks of graduation, it said.

Resilient Coders’ managing director of engineering, Leon Noel, will lead the expansion. Noel is a native of South Philadelphia and grew up aware of the city’s unemployment gap that has existed for decades now. As a student at George Washington Carver High School of Engineering and Science 15 years ago, he had two years of C++ classes and said that while the ability to train individuals in tech jobs is not new, diverse communities are still missing out.

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