February 2023 National Skills Coalition (NSC) in partnership with the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta released Closing the Digital Skill Divide, a real-time snapshot of demand for digital skills in the US labor market. The analysis finds that 92% of jobs analyzed require digital skills. Previous NSC research found one-third of workers don’t have the foundational digital skills necessary to...Read more
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OpenHub and Mid-Hudson Computer Science Teachers Association to host the 5th Annual Hudson Valley Youth Hackathon as the core part of the first ever Hudson Valley Digital Rally
Date: May 20, 2024
Time: 12:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location: Locust Grove Estate, Poughkeepsie, NY
NEWBURGH, NY, May 18, 2024 – OpenHub, first time in collaboration with the Mid-Hudson...Read more
May 19, 2024 - 11:06am
Submitted by Yulia
NEWBURGH, NEW YORK - Open Hub is thrilled to announce the addition of Lis Hubert to our team as a mentor. With her extensive experience and expertise in customer experience strategy and design, Lis will play a pivotal role in guiding and mentoring our community members to excel in their respective fields.
Lis Hubert is a Founding Partner of...Read more
May 9, 2024 - 10:21am
Submitted by Yulia
Action shot, click… Two friends, OpenHub founder and Tech Academy director, Yulia Ovchinnikova (right), and OpenHub Website Development Mentor, Shannah White (left), smile with warm hearts as the year-long Tech Academy workforce development project draws to a close. Helping people achieve a positive transformation that opens doors of opportunity...Read more
Mar 21, 2024 - 3:11pm
Submitted by Shannah
Another successful Hackathon is over! The 2023 ‘From Open Data to AI’ Mini Hackathon was a great evening of innovation, collaboration, and creative problem solving. A big thank you to everyone who helped make it possible, and to all of our participants that brought their ideas to the table. If you missed it, be sure to check out our...Read more
Mar 30, 2023 - 5:15pm
Submitted by Yulia
We are so proud of our girls from Newburgh Girls Code Club learning and growing through coding projects, gaining more confidence through their experience of growth in our supportive environment! Technology, empowernemnt, and sisterhood-building activities were highlighted as the key instruments for leadership. Through the Summer Immersive two-weeks bootcamp girls learned web development and were able to build their projects from scratch with HTML, CSS and...Read more
Feb 17, 2023 - 6:59pm
Submitted by Yulia
For the Fall 2022 Newburgh Girls Code Club switched gears to experiment with new audiences, and was reformatted as Newburgh Coding Club for the youth.
10 boys and girls enrolled for the Fall 2022 cohort to learn coding and Computer Science basics from scratch with Scratch.mit.edu.
We mixed boys and girls of the age of 8-13 (with Girls:Boys...Read more
Feb 17, 2023 - 5:51pm
Submitted by Yulia
Mark Thursday December 8th on your calendars, it’s the next big step on the Hudson Valley’s road to technology-fueled growth. Open Hub is presenting, and the Newburgh Free Library is hosting a full day of panel discussions and cutting-edge presentations focused on jobs, change, and prosperity through digital technology.
The theme of this free event in two parts is Re-invent/...Read more
Dec 1, 2022 - 9:31am
Submitted by Yulia
The November 10th crowd brainstorming workshop was set as a continuation of our efforts to reinvigorate the once thriving tech community of the Hudson Valley, NY.
At our first one, we were able to define the core Purpose-Principles-Participants-Practices we'd like to see. For the second one, we decided to play with another Liberating Structure frequently used to facilitate innovative...Read more
Nov 29, 2022 - 12:34pm
Submitted by Yulia
Thank you to everyone who helped organize the CSTA Mid-Hudson Valley and OpenHub Computer Science Day on November 5th! Almost 300 people participated in our day of fun and educational coding/computer science events. 16 tables with different unplugged activities, coding books and prizes were run by amazing Hudson Valley teachers from FDR, Kingston John, Jay Beacon, RCK, and...Read more
Nov 8, 2022 - 2:05pm
Submitted by Ana Davis