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Rachel MeltzerUpdated on April 22, 2025While most immersive coding bootcamps are designed for adult career-changers, there’s a rising number of summer bootcamps, pre-college programs, and online bootcamps now geared towards high school students and rising college freshmen. More kids and high school students than ever are learning to code and turning to bootcamps to l...Continue Reading →- Jess FeldmanUpdated on June 30, 2020Course Report · Course Report Podcast June 2020 This June, we’re covering fundraises in the bootcamp world (newsflash: MOOCs are back!), ways bootcamps can integrate with workforce development, and the pros and cons of Income Share Agreements. Also did you...Continue Reading →
- Jess FeldmanUpdated on October 21, 2020While Amon Mwesiga had started his IT career, he knew he would need to upskill in order to advance in tech. After watching Manzoor The Trainer’s YouTube tutorials, Amon felt instantly connected with the boo...Continue Reading →
- Jess FeldmanUpdated on June 24, 2020When her career as a hospital nurse became too emotionally taxing, Dani Gómez made up her mind to transition into tech with Holberton School. After completing the 9-month Foundations course atContinue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on May 10, 2024Craig Fryar has years of experience working with data – from leading teams at Tableau and Electronic Arts to serving as a thought leader in data. As a distinguished faculty member at General Assembly, he teaches theContinue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on September 16, 2021What kinds of Python projects can bootcamp students actually build? Because coding bootcamps are largely project-based, students at Python bootcamps like Hackbright Academy, Metis, and Coding Dojo graduate w...Continue Reading →
- Jess FeldmanUpdated on September 24, 2020One trademark of a coding bootcamp is the project-based curriculum, which means students build many smaller projects throughout the bootcamp and one final capstone project, graduating with a full portfolio of web applications and mobile apps. Coding bootcamps prioritize teaching what the tech industry actually uses on the job today, so it’s no surprise that Full Stack JavaScript is the...Continue Reading →
- Jess FeldmanUpdated on September 30, 2024While some tech companies like Slack and Apple have shared that ~7-8% of their US workforces identify as LGBTQ, visibility for LGBTQ+ folks in the tech industry remains a struggle. Diversity in entrepreneurship andContinue Reading →
- Jess FeldmanUpdated on June 16, 2020After years in nursing and IT healthcare consulting across the US, Beverly Ukandu wanted to upskill again. She considered a CS degree, but Beverly ultimately decided to enroll inContinue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on October 21, 2020Shillington offers a scholarship at each of their campuses to fund part of their fall program every year. We caught up with Anderson Ashbaugh, a graduate of Shillington and recipient of their September 201...Continue Reading →
- Jess FeldmanUpdated on June 12, 2020DigitalCrafts launched its online coding bootcamp program with live online instruction, and is now accepting applications for its summer cohorts. Led by a team of instructors with industry experience, the live online format at DigitalCrafts ensures that online students receive all of the sam...Continue Reading →
- Jess FeldmanUpdated on June 11, 2020Alex Hare spent a decade working in pastry, but when a catering position had her managing data and Salesforce errors, Alex realized that technology...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on June 11, 2020Gregorio Rojas co-founded Sabio in 2013 after a successful career in programming. And as a career changer himself, his goal is to get more folks past the gatekeepers and prepared for jobs in ...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on December 4, 2024Jake Vikoren took a break after college to figure out his next move. He started teaching himself machine learning in his spare time and once he realized he wanted to pursue it as a career, Jake enrolled inContinue Reading →
- Jess FeldmanUpdated on October 21, 2020After years as an art consultant, Mo Glatz needed a new creative challenge. She tested the waters with free Python tutorials before deciding to make the full career-change into Software Engineering at Momentum in North Carolina. Mo shares whyContinue Reading →
- Jess FeldmanUpdated on May 29, 2020After years of trying different career paths as a salesman, bartender, and caterer, Rory Fahy realized that his future was in technology. WhenContinue Reading →
- Jess FeldmanUpdated on February 16, 2021Course Report · May 2020 Coding Bootcamp News While the global pause on life-as-we-know-it continued through May, we continued to see coding bootcamps taking extraordinary action to meet the needs of those who are unemployed or underemployed due to COVI...Continue Reading →
- Jess FeldmanUpdated on May 27, 2020Frustrated with his university computer science courses, Sheldon Malboeuf decided to drop out and enroll at Lighthouse Labs in Montreal. Halfway through the bootcamp, the COVID-19 pandemic forced Sheldon’s in-pers...Continue Reading →
- Jess FeldmanUpdated on May 29, 2020When John Ray Martinez immigrated to Canada from the Philippines, he was already years into an IT diploma but found that his credits didn’t transfer. While completing a computer science diploma program in Toronto, John Ray came acrossContinue Reading →
- Jess FeldmanUpdated on February 8, 2021We sat down with two Fullstack Academy Cyber Bootcamp alums to find out what it's like to work in cybersecurity today. Fabianna Rodriguez-Mercado and Sarah Gold both graduated from theContinue Reading →
