The Last Mile prepares incarcerated individuals for successful re-entry through business and technology training.
Darius Fahmawi, Calvin McCaster and Ivanjhay Bilimon all participate in The Last Mile coding program and successfully completed track one upon the presentation of their final projects to fellow classmates and staff. These students have learned front-end web development including Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and JavaScript. These students will now move to track two to learn back-end web development equipping them with the skills to be Junior Full-Stack Developers.
Student Calvin McCaster stated "This is a great opportunity for us to learn new skills. I look forward to my possibilities within a career in web development and what my future holds."
** Pictured: Ivanjhay Bilimon, Calvin McCaster and Darius Fahmawi
**Student in The Last Mile present their final projects for Track 1.
Background
Indiana is the first state outside of California to adopt the successful coding program. As a part of Gov. Holcomb’s Next Level Agenda for 2018, the program launched in Indiana in April of that year, is training offenders with computer coding skills at Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility with the ultimate goal of aligning them with gainful employment upon release. The Last Mile is now serving five Indiana correctional facilities, close to a third of its total classrooms nationwide, with 67 active students. Learn more about The Last Mile at thelastmile.org.