Video: How interns developed an app that lets you pay your neighbor's heating bill

In Paintsville, Kentucky, a group of interns who are being trained to learn tech skills developed a Secret Santa app to help their fellow interns.

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Video: Eastern Kentuckians are getting tech skills training, courtesy of Interapt

A tech company in Louisville is paying eastern Kentuckians to learn tech skills. TechRepublic caught up with an apprentice, Christian Campbell, about how what the opportunity means to him.

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Video: How tech skills are revitalizing jobs in Appalachia

TechRepublic caught up with the federal co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission about how eastern Kentuckians are being retrained for tech jobs.

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Video: Why eastern Kentucky must retrain its workforce for the digital age

TechRepublic caught up with Kentucky representative Hal Rogers about why it's essential to bring tech skills to coal country to keep talented workers in eastern Kentucky.

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Video: How the nonprofit SOAR is bringing tech skills to coal miners

TechRepublic caught up with the director of a nonprofit in eastern Kentucky about how tech training is helping the helping the coal-mining community reimagine what a job looks like.

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Video: How tech jobs will improve the economic outlook for Appalachia

TechRepublic spoke with the 3rd US CTO Megan Smith about how thousands of Kentuckians are preparing for tech jobs, and how it will impact the economic landscape in Appalachia.

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Video: How TechHire is helping fill 600,000 US tech jobs

TechRepublic caught up with the 3rd US CTO Megan Smith on how to jump-start eastern Kentuckians to land tech jobs.

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