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If they don't get picked up by IBM, they're still very young with highly sought after skills that they could either use at another job or go onto a 4 year progr

If they don't get picked up by IBM, they're still very young with highly sought after skills that they could either use at another job or go onto a 4 year program. It didn't sound like this is meant to totally replace college but instead to offer them more options. Some of these students might not have gone to college anyways so to give them the opportunity finish high school with solid internship experience and skills that could lead to a decent job sounds like a pretty great deal to me.

Kalium 11y ago
> If they don't get picked up by IBM, they're still very young with highly sought after skills that they could either use at another job or go onto a 4 year program. I think that may be assuming quite a bit about what skills they have acquired. This puts IBM in a position to teach the students IBM-specific technologies, making them more valuable to IBM while not adding to their value to non-IBM players. Compared to nothing, it's a decent deal. Compared to the prospect of an education not controlled by a single company, it's perhaps not such a great deal.