Google is opening “Howard West” on its grounds in Mountain View, Calif., a Silicon Valley station for the historically black university where software engineering majors can drench themselves in coding direction and tech culture, also the inward workings of one of the planet’s most well-known companies.

Between 25 and 30 youngsters and seniors from Washington, D.C.- based Howard University will spend 12 weeks at Google this mid-year, receiving instructions from senior Google engineers and Howard faculty and getting course credits for their studies, the Internet giant reported on Thursday.

The program is an outgrowth of Google’s push to enlist more programming engineers from historically black schools and colleges; one of the ways Google is tending to the extreme lack of African Americans on its payroll, especially in specific parts, where they represent 1% of the workforce.

In the end, Google needs to grow the program to incorporate other historically black schools and colleges, said Bonita Stewart, Google’s VP of worldwide organizations, who has been working with Howard University President Dr. Wayne Frederick to build up the framework.

Stewart said when she joined Google 10 years back, there was little discuss different qualities or making the tech business more illustrative of the populaces it serves. Today, this Howard graduate says Google is making a genuine interest in building spans.

“For us, it is a chance to guarantee that we are building a pipeline and all the more critically, invigorating the correct associations to drive change,” Stewart told USA TODAY.