INTech: Bringing Girls Of Color To Code

Tucked into a renovated warehouse, there’s a colorful high-tech room with a giant glass garage door open to the sidewalk to let in fresh air and lots of natural light — almost as if what happens inside is too big for closed walls.

This forward-thinking space could just as easily be in California, but it’s in Charlotte.

To reinforce that there’s something special happening here, when I arrived last Thursday at BLKTECHCLT, there was already an NBC News crew from Atlanta conducting interviews. But our story wasn’t about a hip co-working location. We were there to see the INTech Camp for Girls, which has reached over 500 minority girls in North and South Carolina through its tech camps.

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