Local football team receives computer coding scholarship

CoSourcing Partners, in partnership with UiPath and Code Ninjas, announced that Team United, the 2018 Suburban Parochial Football League Junior Varsity Silver Playoff Champions, has received the local Introduction to Coding Scholarship. Our Lady of Peace Crusaders Football in Darien participate in the league as "Team United."

This scholarship opportunity offers free computer coding and automation training to middle school students.

To lay the foundation for the students to gain proficiency in these new skills, Westmont-based RPA & IT Services firm CoSourcing Partners will underwrite and facilitate this scholarship program at the new childhood education center Code Ninjas, where learning to code is fun and rewarding.

Kids will work to develop problem solving, math, and collaborative skills while they progress through their curriculum.

Additionally, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software company UiPath has supplied the team with Robot Packs that let the students download, build, and customize 10 fun and useful robots to gain an understanding of the real-life applications of automation.

One RPA project the kids are excited to start includes bots that will compile and project fantasy football line-ups and performance projections and a robot for cataloging baseball cards, trading cards, and coin values.

"We want to provide the kids with skills that will help them pursue future dreams," said Scott Upp, CEO and president of CoSourcing Partners. "We are honored to announce this scholarship, which reflects our commitment and belief that this next generation of youths will find coding and automation as a core skill within the global marketplace.

"We are grateful to our partner UiPath for providing Team United with downloadable robots and to Code Ninjas for enabling kids learn to code through game-based curriculum that teaches teamwork, logic, math and problem-solving skills," Upp said.