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We need Blacks and Latinos to enter the tech workforce at a greater rate, and to stay and succeed there as engineers, technologists, thought leaders, executives, and entrepreneurs. It's economics and social justice. The CODE2040 Fellows Program CODE2040's flagship program is our summer Fellows Program which places high performing Black and Latino/a software engineering students in internships with top tech companies and provides mentorship, leadership training, and network development. The Fellows Program started in the Bay Area in 2012 with a pilot class of 5 Fellows, returned for a second summer in 2013 with 18 Fellows and will expand again in the summer of 2014. The Fellows Program is designed to accelerate students' success, fast-tracking them to becoming tech leaders. We place heavy emphasis on paying it forward. Our Fellows will be the mentors, role models, and beacons of light for underrepresented students coming after them, inspiring a new generation to pursue technology by demonstrating that it is a viable option for "people who look like me." Our alumni programming supports our Fellows in this quest and the pursuit of becoming tech leaders. Students can apply to the Fellows Program at apply.code2040.org. Want the latest stats on the issue CODE2040 is addressing? Check out the Tech's Big Opportunity Gap Infographic. STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) jobs are the fastest-growing category of jobs in the United States, and 70% of those jobs involve computing. Computer science jobs command some of the highest starting salaries in the US: $77,000 per year -- about twice the median household income of a Black or Latino family. The unemployment rate for STEM workers is lower than for all workers; the unemployment rate for African-Americans and Latinos is 3x the nationwide rate. Software developers are in demand: at the current rate we are graduating computer scientists, there will be 1MM software jobs unfilled by 2020.  Fewer than 4% of Black and Latino students study computer science and only 1 in 14 technical employees in the tech hub of Silicon Valley is Black or Latino. The US will be majority-minority in the year 2040, and 42% of the country will be Black or Latino.    Check out my other blog:  Conversations with Random Professionals Check out my Facebook page. Follow me on Twitter