Bethel College Tech

My experience at Bethel School of Technology has been an amazing one! It’s truly a unique program in that it partners your growth in coding skills along with growth in your own faith. This was something that was very important to me because many bootcamps provide the coding skills but I was hungry for more of Jesus and to continue to grow in my faith so this was the place to be. The technical preparation was very strong I felt – there were lessons in different languages followed up projects that required a lot of self-study and figuring things out on your own (very much the real world). However, there were many instructors available to meet with me whenever I ran into a problem with my code or project. While they would help me with parts of the assignment they would also challenge me to google certain topics so I can continue to grow as a developer. The capstone project was also something that I really enjoyed and learned a lot from. My teammate and I built a workout app which I then spoke to in my interviews and it came off really well. In terms of the faith component, that was probably my favorite part because we were reading several books written by Bethel Church pastors which helped me to grow in my identity in Jesus. There would be weekly writing assignments on different topics in faith which also challenged me and helped me to process different parts of my faith and how I viewed myself. Overall the coding bootcamp felt like I was partially in a seminary and partially studying computer science at a university. There was a lot of career support which was very tangible advice and helped me land a job 2.5 months after the end of the coding bootcamp. Having a personal advisor was also super helpful because at many times throughout the bootcamp I would become worried about the future or my finances, but I knew I could go to my advisor and ask for prayer. He was someone who would hear me out and give me encouragement which was very important for me during a career transition. Overall, it was a blessing to have attended BST and I am so happy that I did!