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Cybrary spearheads IT training program for women refugees

The Greenbelt, Md.-based MOOC company is working with Cornerstone, a new program that offers computer literacy courses to women refugees.

Cybrary.IT is teaming up with a new organization that provides computer training to refugee women. (Photo by Flickr user World Bank Photo Collection, used under a Creative Commons license)

Cybersecurity MOOC company Cybrary.IT announced Wednesday it is teaming up with Cornerstone, a new organization formed to provide computer literacy training to local refugees.
Starting in July, Cybrary will offer basic computer training and IT courses to women refugees — many of whom had previously lacked access to technology — in its Greenbelt brick-and-mortar space.
The classes will be taught in English to a class of exclusively female students.
“Cyber security typically conjures up this picture of elite hackers squirreled away in some bunker,” Cornerstone Program Director Sarah Chu said in a press release. “The students of Cornerstone will not only train on the latest technology, but they’ll be exposed to the wide and wonderful world of IT, which can spark both a passion for the field and open the door for job prospects.”
The four-week course will serve 10 students, who are expected to graduate with a Northstar Digital Literacy Certificate, a proof of proficiency in basic computer tasks.

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