COD offers free STEMinar

Neal Sales-Griffin, CEO of CodeNow, a nonprofit organization that hosts coding workshops for students from low-income backgrounds in six cities nationwide, will speak this week in College of DuPage's STEMinar Series.

Sales-Griffin will share his story as a mixed-race, low-income child growing up on the South Side of Chicago who became a successful student and businessman at Northwestern University.

The free event begins at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 15, in the Health and Science Center, Room 1234, on campus, 425 Fawell Blvd., Glen Ellyn.

Before he became CEO of CodeNow, Sales-Griffin was CEO of innovative tech institution The Starter League. He serves as a coordinator of the International Game Developer's Association, as a faculty member for Northwestern University's Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and as a mentor in the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship.

The talk is co-sponsored by the Disability Employment Initiative IT Career Pathway program at College of DuPage. For information about DEI, contact COD IT Career Coach Nina McMahon at (630) 942-2981 or mcmahonn692@cod.edu.

For information about the event, contact College of DuPage STEM Outreach Coordinator Sara McCubbins at (630) 942-3021 or mccubbinss@cod.edu.

The STEMinar Series at College of DuPage consists of free talks covering a variety of topics related to science, technology, engineering and math throughout the fall and spring semesters.