This Bay Area neighborhood is surrounded by tech yet residents face high barriers to entry
https://www.siliconvalley.com/2021/10/02/this-bay-area-neighborhood-is-surrounded-by-tech-yet-residents-face-high-barriers-to-entry/
Max Chavez remembers the moment when he finally found the coding error that was causing his two-dimensional red and yellow ball to defy the laws of physics.
He was watching the ball on an old Mac computer on a cafeteria table at East Palo Alto Academy. It was 2016, he was a freshman at the high school and he’d become part of StreetCode Academy, a local nonprofit that provided free training for students to bridge the tech divide in Silicon Valley.