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“This was such an amazing and unique opportunity for us. As someone with a pre-med background who’s been transitioning into the tech world, this program has made this possible for me.  The coursework was rigorous, and we learned so much by being hands-on and developing different web applications. The support from the NVF team made it…

Our NVF full-stack coding bootcamp has just completed its first ever cohort. In 2023, NVF was awarded with American Rescue Plan Act funding from the City of Saint Paul and Ramsey County Workforce Solutions to support the new Learn & Earn initiative. We partnered with Software for Good (SfG) to teach and train young adults…

AIM Academy of Science & Technology (AAST) provides youth a successful path to college and STEM careers through culturally responsive mentorship, integrated STEM education, and curricular connections with technology-based businesses and industries. AIM is a public charter school with a STEM based curriculum that serves grades 6-12. We connected with Abdirahman Ahmed, Assistant Principal at AIM and…

Tell us a bit about yourself and how you ventured into the tech field. Hello! My name is Abdirahman Ismail and I’ve always been curious about tech. Yes I know curiosity killed the cat, but in my case I began self-learning to code and eventually enrolled in a coding bootcamp in 2021. Within that same…

SciTech Academy delivers an all-inclusive STEM curriculum to engage, empower, and educate inner-city and immigrant students in preparation for their future. The Academy’s core program includes a complete K-8 STEM curriculum supported by top science education centers in the nation and supplemented with a STEM literacy series. Their mission is to prepare students for successful…

This year NVF was invited to Carlson Family Foundation’s Youth Convention held in Minneapolis, MN. Community partners and grantee partners were invited to attend the event dedicated to highlighting opportunities and challenges facing youth serving organizations. The event included networking amongst community partners and grantees, a youth panel with youth entrepreneurs and change makers, as…

As we send off our interns into the school year, we are grateful to have had their contributions to our organization this summer. Mohamed Abdi, our Operations Developer Intern will be an incoming freshman at Augsburg University.  Soodal Adow our Marketing Intern will be a second-year student at St. Paul College. Prior to the internships,…

Meet our NVF former student, Hanna Mooge. As an incoming second year student at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, she previously completed our C++ course at NVF while attending Rochester STEM Academy. Hanna share’s her experience with us below. What concepts did you learn in the course? In the C++ NVF course, I…

MDE has awarded New Vision Foundation with the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund Grant (ESSER) summer grant. ESSER funding was designed to target and support students most impacted educationally and emotionally by the COVID-19 pandemic: low-income students, students of color, American Indian students, English language learners, students with disabilities and students experiencing homelessness. NVF will…

New Vision Foundation is excited to announce that we have been awarded with American Rescue Plan Act funding from the City of Saint Paul and Ramsey County Workforce Solutions to support the new Learn & Earn initiative. NVF has partnered with Software for Good (SfG) to teach and train youth of color for the tech…