{"id":5827,"date":"2024-12-06T18:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T18:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/news-jaycee-holmes-itp-alum-codehouse-co-founder-featured-in-wash\/"},"modified":"2024-12-06T18:00:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T18:00:11","slug":"news-jaycee-holmes-itp-alum-codehouse-co-founder-featured-in-wash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/news-jaycee-holmes-itp-alum-codehouse-co-founder-featured-in-wash\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaycee Holmes, ITP Alum & CodeHouse Co-Founder, Featured in Washington Square News Article"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Read the full article, published December 5th, 2024.
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When ITP alum Jaycee Holmes<\/b> was an undergraduate student at Spelman College \u2014 a historically Black, women\u2019s university \u2014 the maker space lab for students consisted of one 3D printer and one laser cutter in a small room. Now, as co-director of the lab, Holmes is preparing for it to triple in size. <\/p>\n

After graduating from NYU\u2019s graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program, Holmes co-founded CodeHouse, a nonprofit that guides students of color to access STEM careers through networking opportunities and over $1.9 million in academic scholarships. She has been applauded for her work with CodeHouse on Forbes\u2019 30 Under 30 list<\/a> and by the Obama Foundation.<\/p>\n

Holmes said that she immediately applied to NYU\u2019s ITP \u2014 a master\u2019s program that combines the study of engineering and the arts \u2014 after earning her undergraduate degree in 2016. Throughout her time in the program, Holmes said she found a passion for user experience design and augmented reality. When they weren\u2019t in classes, Holmes worked at Bloomberg as a data research fellow, and then as a product design apprentice at the New York City Mayor\u2019s Office. In the summer of 2017, Holmes also taught computer programming with Girls Who Code, a nonprofit that hosts classes and career development opportunities for people worldwide in an attempt to someday minimize the gender gap in the tech industry.<\/p>\n

During their final year at NYU, Holmes worked at Princess Nora University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for two months after learning about the opportunity through an ITP alum. There, she developed the university\u2019s first maker space \u2014 an experience that preceded her work as co-director of Innovation Lab, the student maker space at Spelman, where she has also served as a professor since 2020. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Inspired by her experiences as an NYU graduate student, Jaycee Holmes hopes to welcome more people of color and women into the computer science industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}