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Let's start with the numbers. Technology companies here pumps 7.7 billion dollars into the city's economy and hire 75,000 people.
让我们从数字开始，科技公司为这座城市注资77亿美金，雇佣7.5万人。
Job postings for emerging tech are up 40 percent over last year and unemployment is only 3 percent.
去年，新兴科技公司招聘数量增长了40%，失业率仅为3%。
No, this isn't Silicon Valley. It's Middle America, Indianapolis, Indiana.
不，这里不是硅谷，这是美国中部的印第安纳州的印第安纳波利斯市。
It's on the cusp of what we are seeing as it's being a tech boom.
如今正是科技发展的高潮。
So, Courtney Spence founded Kenzie Academy.
因此，考特尼·斯宾塞创办了肯齐学院。
It's a coding university to attract startups to America's heartland and to supply them with trained software developers.
这是一所软件编码大学，吸引创业公司到美国的中心地带，并向他们提供受过培训的软件开发人员。
Steve Hershberger is hiring local Kenzie interns for his beer management system,
史蒂夫·赫什伯格正在为他的啤酒管理系统雇佣当地肯齐学院实习生，
rather than flying in coders and engineers from Silicon Valley.
而不是聘请远在硅谷的程序员和工程师。
The big universities used to train for that. They don't train for it today.
以前一些著名大学会培训学生，现在不会了。
Through these local business partnerships, students learn outside the classroom.
通过这些当地的商业伙伴关系，学生可以在课堂之外学习。
Mya Williams will graduate in December of 2019 as part of Kenzie's first class.
米娅·威廉姆斯将于2019年12月毕业，这将是肯齐学院毕业的第一个班。
She moved to Indianapolis from Louisiana to study medical software engineering.
她从路易斯安那搬到印第安纳波利斯来学习医学软件工程。
New Orleans is very healthcare based but their technology was lacking somewhat and there wasn't really a job market out there for that.
新奥尔良的医疗基础很强，但他们的技术却有些欠缺，我的专业在那里没有就业市场。
Kenzie actively recruits females in what has traditionally been a male-dominated industry.
该领域一直由男性主导，而如今肯齐学院正在积极招募女性。
But in the next class just three out of twelve are women.
但是下一个班，12人中只有3人是女性。
Student Kavitha Kamalbabu says women need more confidence in their tech skills.
学生卡薇莎·卡玛巴布说，女性需要对自己的技术技能更有信心。
You have to like brush off all those fears and be ready to face anything.
你必须消除所有的恐惧，准备面对一切。
That's how you can win, that's how you can build a career.
只有这样才能赢，只有这样才能有发展。
Kamalbabu and half her class aren't paying Kenzie's 12,000 dollars a year tuition, well not right now.
到目前为止，卡玛巴布和班上一半同学都还没交年费，一年学费为1.2万美金，
Instead a school program allows them to pay part of their first job salary for the tuition.
学校项目允许他们用第一份工作的部分工资交学费。
Kenzie might be a success for Indianapolis, but at Stanford University located in the heart of Silicon Valley, students are skeptical.
肯齐学院或许在印第安纳波利斯是成功的，但是位于硅谷中心的斯坦福大学学生却对此持怀疑态度。
When I think of high tech I usually think of places like the Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, but not somewhere like Indianapolis.
当我想到高科技时，我通常会想到像海湾地区、洛杉矶、纽约这样的地方，而不是像印第安纳波利斯这样的地方。
If not Indiana how about Asia? Kenzie founders plan to duplicate the academy model starting in Malaysia.
如果不是印第安纳，那亚洲呢？肯齐学院的创始人计划在马来西亚开设相同模式的学校。
Carolyn Presutti, VOA News Indianapolis Indiana.
VOA记者卡洛琳·普蕾苏蒂印第安纳州，印第安纳波利斯采访报道。
