Majoran Distillery managing director Michael Reid
With the rapid pace of technology making traditional jobs and employment structures redundant, Adelaide’s technology coworking community is rising to the challenge and assisting affected communities prepare for the future.
More than a dozen people have signed up for the beginners Learn to Code workshop run by Sydney-based The Coder Factory and hosted at Adelaide’s coworking community Majoran Distillery this weekend (29-30 March). Two of the participants, teen students from Elizabeth, have had their spots on the course sponsored by the local tech community. They are part of theHelping Young People Achieve (HYPA) program run by the Service to Youth Council.
The workshop will educate participants in basic programming concepts, web design fundamentals and building professional websites with front-end frameworks.
Majoran managing director Michael Reid said their business community was eager to lend support after realising the impact the closure of Holden will have on the local community. Majoran members saw the workshop as a great way to increase the students’ employability and give back to the local community.
“Cost of production was one factor in the closure of Holden, the high Aussie dollar and high wage costs, but there is an underlying theme in that the increasingly global marketplace and its reliance on technology is changing the workforce in unprecedented ways,” he said.
“Our response as a community has been to help up-skill young people in the use of technology. Why not help as many people as possible, and if they can’t afford it, let’s find a way to support them.”
Local development agency Next Faze has also come on board and will supply laptops for the students. Head of Next Faze Derek Munneke said the company’s staff were attending the workshop as paying participants and were keen to lend their support to the initiative.
“It’s about ensuring students learn as early as possible and understand the opportunities that are available to them so they can make their own future in the IT industry,” he said.
If you’re interested in joining the workshop, check out this blog post for further details: http://majorandistillery.com/coder-factory-comes-adelaide/
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