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  Inside the new UI/UX Design Course at LearningFuze

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on January 20, 2021

    LearningFuze is launching a new part-time UI/UX Design Course at their campus in Irvine, California. We sat down with Lucy Darby, Instructor and Curriculum Designer, to find out what the UX curriculum will include (and exactly which UX tools...

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  Inside the new Lighthouse Labs Intro to Data Analytics Course

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on February 16, 2021

    After teaching web development for years and seeing the tech landscape evolve in Canada, Lighthouse Labs is taking the next step into data analytics and data science. We caught up with co-founder Khurram Virani to find out where...

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  From Healthcare to Software Engineer with Hackbright Academy

  

  Jess Feldman

  Updated on March 10, 2020

  Reyna Diaz began her career as a medical assistant, working in patient care and administration, but she soon realized neither were her dream job. She took her empathy a...

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  Alumni Spotlight: Mannex Pimentel of [Lighthouse]

  

  Jess Feldman

  Updated on March 9, 2020

  Mannex Pimentel decided to transition from talent management into a more stable tech career. After graduating from a web development bootcamp, he wanted to expand his data anal...

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  Meet Kasia: From Dancer to Developer with CareerFoundry

  

  Jess Feldman

  Updated on March 6, 2020

  Kasia Pryczek didn’t even own a computer, but was on the hunt for a creative, flexible, stable career as she raised her newborn. She enrolled in...

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  Inside the DigitalCrafts Career Prep Program

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on March 9, 2020

  DigitalCrafts alumni have been telling us about the bootcamp’s career prep for years – so what exactly goes into DigitalCrafts’ jobs curriculum? From interview prep to salary negotiation to honing...

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  Inside Josie's Final UX Design Project at Brainstation: TrackFit

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on March 3, 2020

  Josie Altare combined her research skills with on-the-job training to transition into UX design. The UX designers she worked with recommended BrainStation, and Josie enrolled in the...

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  February 2020 Coding Bootcamp News

  

  Jess Feldman

  Updated on February 27, 2020

    February was busy with $70 million in fundraising, 5 new university-bootcamp partnerships, and regulatory controversies that centered around California schools Lambda School and Holberton School. We also talk about two new influential reports about tech training this month, and continued discussion about the future of tech education. And of course we round up new campuses, and 13 new cod...

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  Why Tray.io Hires Solutions Engineers from Flatiron School

  

  Liz Eggleston

  Updated on February 8, 2021

    Joe Burrow is the Technical Talent Manager at Tray.io in London. In the past year, their team has tripled in size and they’ve been hiring Flatiron School graduates onto their Solutions Engineering team. We caught up with Joe to find out why they’re hiring bootcamp graduates as Solut...

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  Why Startup Homer Hires Lighthouse Labs Graduates

  

  Jess Feldman

  Updated on February 24, 2020

  Vancouver-based startup Homer has hired two Lighthouse Labs bootcamp graduates to work on its smart technology for finding housing. We spoke with Founder...

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