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  Director Spotlight: Holly Karlsson, Shillington School

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on October 7, 2014

  Holly Karlsson is the Director of Shillington School in New York, a graphic design school teaching both full-time and part-time courses. We talk to Holly about student visas (a unique offering from Shillington), their student-to-teacher ratio, and how they adapt to the changing world of graphic design.   ...

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  Code Fellows Hiring Partner: Nick Soman, Reveal

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on October 6, 2014

  Nick Soman is the founder of Reveal, a social app based in Seattle, and has hired four Code Fellows graduates onto his team. We talk about his satisfaction with new hires, how he finds the most qualified graduates to join his team, and why he says that companies overlooking coding bootcamps are "missing an opportunity to find...

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  Student Spotlight: Sonam Dhingra, Mobile Makers

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on October 6, 2014

  After a rocky start-up experience spotlighted her need to gain technical programming skills, Sonam Dhingra enrolled in Chicago-based Mobile Makers Academy’s eight-week iOS bootcamp. The New York native, who completed her Mobile Makers experience in July 2013 and is now an iOS developer for a Brooklyn-based digital agency,...

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  Week 17 at gSchool: Job Placement and Testing

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on October 3, 2014

  Cameron Buckingham is a student at gSchool, a 6-month coding school in Colorado. He blogs each week about his experience at gSchool- this week, Cameron talks about prepping for job placement and interviews, and focus on testing!...

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  Founder Spotlight: Kevin Khoury, DecodeMTL

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on October 3, 2014

  DecodeMTL is an 8-week Front-End Web Development program that teaches students to build beautifully crafted and well coded simple websites. With their first cohort coming up, we sat down with founder Kevin Khoury to get the scoop on who's teaching the course and the outcomes students can expect when graduating.    What were you doing before you started DecodeMTL? I am not a t...

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  September Bootcamp News Roundup

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on October 2, 2014

  Welcome to the September News Roundup, your monthly news digest full of the most interesting articles and announcements in the bootcamp space. Want your bootcamp's news to be included in the next News Roundup? Submit announcements of new courses, scholarships, or open jobs at your school!   Bootcamps in the...

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  Student Spotlight: Martha Willis, Designation

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on July 9, 2018

  With a degree in Advertising Art Direction, Martha Willis was looking for a way to build on her current skillset in pursuit of a web-based career. So she enrolled in Designation, a full-time, immersive design course in Chicago. We get the scoop from Martha about the application process, her new job as a UI Designer, and how sh...

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  Student Spotlight: Gorka Magana, IronHack

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on October 1, 2014

  In this Student Spotlight, we talk to IronHack graduate Gorka Magana about his experience at the bootcamp based in Spain. Read on to learn about his application process, the project he created during the course, and how IronHack helped him nail a job as an iOS developer at Rushmore.fm!   What were you doing before you started a...

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  Student Spotlight: Ali Lynch, TurnToTech

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on September 30, 2014

  After working in advertising for five years, Ali Lynch decided to begin researching bootcamps to learn mobile development. She was impressed with the emphasis on Swift at TurnToTech, and is currently a student in her 7th week of TurnToTech's course. We talk to Ali about how she chose the right bootcamp for her, how TurnToTech d...

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  Instructor Spotlight: Faz Besharatian, General Assembly

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on September 25, 2014

  Faz Besharatian is the head instructor for the General Assembly UX Design Immersive in Washington, DC. We talk to Faz about the evolution of UX Design, how the curriculum is customized to each class, and the ideal student for the immersive GA course.    Tell us about your background and how you got involved with General Assembly. This is my second time teaching the UX Design Immer...

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