We are pleased to announce that Wendell Covington, Jr. has joined NPower, as Executive Director, to lead our program in St. Louis. Wendell has been a leader and pioneer in youth development for over 26 years. He has positively impacted over 30,000 youth in the St. Louis Metropolitan area. Additionally, he has partnered with hundreds of non-profit and educational organizations locally, regionally, and nationally.
St. Louis magazine features, St. Louis program director, Adande Lane, as she pushes for more women of color to join our next virtual class on September 8th.
This Living St. Louis Special focuses on innovative solutions to the unique challenges St. Louis faces in developing a skilled workforce to fill the high-demand talent pipeline. The town hall features NPower graduate, Jeremy Addison (25 min mark).
Jeremy Addison is an East St. Louis native and graduate of the NPower program, who now works as an associate service desk analyst at World Wide Technology.
The free tech training program, NPower, has announced its event, “Rising Up: Propelling Career Growth & Wage Equity,” to help women of color claim their space in tech and provide strategies to advance their careers and pay–supported by Citi Foundation.
The St. Louis metropolitan area has a booming tech scene with an estimated 44,000 tech occupation openings. The region is also home to over *36,000 young adults from under-resourced communities who have the interest, potential, and capacity to work in a tech job and be the next generation of technologists.
*Measure of America of the Social Science Research Council - 2019 Youth Disconnection Report
Located on the campus of St. Louis Community College, NPower Missouri provides FREE technology training and development to young adult job seekers, offering an alternative fast-track to tech jobs with employers committed to hiring diverse IT talent.
This 100% virtually-led Tech Fundamentals program is 20 weeks long and will provide young adults, ages 18-30, the opportunity to gain the skills and tools necessary to launch their careers in tech.
Classes start May 10th.
Our Tech Fundamentals program is your entry point to a tech-based career. In less than 5 months, you will master the basics of IT with real-world application and credentials.
NPower Missouri and St. Louis Community College have partnered to offer current NPower trainees and alumni up to 12 hours of credit towards an STLCC associate’s degree.
Your donation today will help NPower Missouri move people from poverty to the middle class through tech skills training and quality job placement.
Check out the latest News & Events from NPower’s Missouri Office.
Contact our local NPower office if you are interested in applying for the program or attending an information session.
World Wide Technology partners with community-based organizations that strive to steward the interest in STEM and prepare students and young adults for the future workforce, such as NPOwer and Launch Code/Coder Girl.
NPower, a national nonprofit providing free technology training and job placement assistance, announces the launch of a large-scale partnership with the US Department of Labor (US DOL), Office of Apprenticeship and the St. Louis Agency on Training and Employment (SLATE), officially recognizing NPower St. Louis as a registered Apprenticeship Trainer for Information Technology (IT) Generalist Apprenticeships. This designation is the first of its kind for Missouri and follows the IT Generalist Apprenticeship programs previously introduced by NPower in New Jersey, California and Texas, and places St. Louis among the first cities in the nation to offer this type of apprenticeship.
Trina Clark James, executive director of NPower in Missouri is recognized by the Diverse Business Leaders in St. Louis
