This is a great article about Unloop and their efforts to further prison education. We are very happy to work with them and they deserve all the credit they get.
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Corrections Education Leadership
It is important to remember that success in any education program requires support from local and state leadership. Mike Paris has been a key supporter of quality education in WA state and has been helpful with initiatives that have benefited our CSE program.
http://www.doc.wa.gov/news/2016/09162016.htm
Providing Postsecondary Education to Inmates
A few points regarding providing education to inmates:
- Drastically reduces recidivism = saves the state lots of money.
- Tuition is cheaper than housing/feeding inmates = saves the state lots of money.
- Approximately 95% of inmates will get out = what kind of neighbor do you want when they get out?
http://seattletimes.com/html/editorials/2020485177_editinmatespostsecondaryeducationxml.html
http://www.king5.com/story/news/local/2014/08/05/13374004/
Coding Boot Camp, PC, TEACH, Unloop, DOC
Another example of Unloop hosting Make days at the women’s prison.
http://crosscut.com/2016/08/can-coding-create-a-future-for-people-behind-bars/
DOC – Clallam Bay Corrections Center Video Blog
Great video done by WA State Department of Corrections to showcase the good work that incarcerated students are doing at Clallam Bay Corrections Center.
Coding Unbarred
Work by unloop – inspiring community to get involved in furthering prison education.
Coding Unbarred app at Hackathon helps inmates learn to code
Make Day – AERobots
On March 7th 2016 we had a Make day. Inmates were invited to come up for a day of coding robots.
Un-loop ( facebook page ) came to Clallam Bay Corrections Center and exposed incarcerated students to programming, robotics, and the culture of software development.
One of the great feats accomplished by David and Lindsey was to get a dozen software development professionals to travel from Seattle to a prison 3.5 hours away in a remote location.
Check out their page for photos and more information.
Here are links to the robots they brought and donated.
Football and tech
What do you get when you take a football fan and teach them to code? A football website.
For those of you who are up on this stuff, HTML/CSS/Photoshop were used to build the graphics and do layout, JQuery was used to make things more interactive (e.g. transitions), and PHP/MySQL was used to create the members area.
What kind of doors open up to someone who can literally create their own web product? I can think of a few very rich guys who started with just that.
Built by student# 10000
C++ Institute Authorized Academy Program!
We are excited that we are now a member of the C++ Institute Authorized Academy Program. This will allow our inmate students the option of gaining industry recognized professional certification in C++ to compliment the training they are already receiving.
PC Faculty Member Recognized for Outstanding Contributions to Corrections Education and Student Success
Mrs. Peet received a much deserved award on April 30th for her work teaching in prisons education. She consistently goes the extra mile to give her students the same opportunities and quality of education that students outside prisons take for granted. We are excited to congratulate her for her accomplishments.