Tech industry looks for students who are…homeless?

By Jason Shueh - eCampus. The Learning Shelter began as an idea – to provide those in need with tech tools, mentors and coaching. And it turned into a “what if?” — a conjecture that asked, “If the homeless had hireable industrial tech skills, would they still be homeless?”
For Founder Marc Roth, personal experience tells him no, and he’s putting this to the test with the official launch of the Learning Shelter, a 90-day live-in tech education program for the homeless with classes that will start in the first half of 2015. More...