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When considering candidates for the upskilling program, love for public service was a must, Director of Digital Services Sara Hall said.
What technical skills are essential to know now, and what's the best way to develop them? What local computer science courses, coding bootcamps, youth STEM camps and other such programs are best preparing junior or future devs for successful tech careers? How are employers considering requirements for tech candidates? What entry points should, but don’t yet exist for entry-level roles?
Taking cues from past themes such as Tech Career Paths Month 2021, Youth Building the Future Month 2021 and Workforce Development Month 2020, July 2022 is Technical.ly's Tech Education Month. This month will see extra reporting on the programs and best practices for training up the next generation of technologists, advice for those looking to advance further, and lessons from looking back. Learn more about our editorial calendar, and pitch a story or guest post by getting in touch via this form.
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In six years, this coding bootcamp graduate went from a job rut to engineering operations lead at one of Wilmington’s major fintech companies.
When considering candidates for the upskilling program, love for public service was a must, Director of Digital Services Sara Hall said.
For Tech Education Month, we asked our Technical.ly Ecosystem Builders what they’re doing to expand access to learning.
The fresh funds will be used for research and development in a number of the cyber education company's departments.
Plus, a #MILLSUMMIT ticket discount, the latest EDGE Grant recipients and more Delaware tech news.
These local programs are a mix of paid and free courses, full time and part time, to kick start your tech career.
Baltimore technologists give their advice on the programming languages they'd learn if they were starting out now.
The six-week certificate program will cost you $4,500.
The cyber-meets-agritech expert reflects on the lessons learned throughout a winding career that took her through Hallmark Cards, the Digital Equipment Corporation and the US Department of Agriculture — and her current efforts to pay it forward.
The developer academy, which already teaches DC students virtually, will be bringing an IRL campus to the area next year.
Flatiron School began running coding bootcamps 10 years ago. Instructor Lindsey Berlin shares how the organization stays relevant.
The TECH REMIXed Hackathon, designed to onboard folks of all skill levels into the wearable tech industry, starts Monday, July 25 and goes through Friday. Here, founder LaKisha Greenwade discusses what to know.
Think most learning apps overstimulate kids more than they teach? Bear's Surinder Sharma, CEO and founder of the edtech app, would agree.
The digital navigators will head out to the community to help make Ward 7 and 8 residents aware of some of the free and reduced-cost broadband options available to them.
Lowinger spoke to his experience about building a career while moving through anxiety, founding a nonprofit and finding the right path.
These pros shared how their out-of-work passions translate to tech — and in some cases, directly led to their current line of work: "This basically all started because I was toying around trying to make art in my basement."
The digital divide continues to be a priority for federal and local agencies.
The equity-minded program aims to help residents from neighborhoods near Oakland join the city’s growing innovation and technology industry while earning "family-sustaining wages."
Three years into full-time tech work, Carpano prioritizes an inclusive culture, building supportive networks and using her education background to boost accessibility work.
Future Kings leaders Arik King and Tshaka Cunningham, who run programming for Black and brown children in Northern Virginia, spoke to Technical.ly about supporting young technologists in the area and growing the local pipeline.
Artificial intelligence is all around us — and part of a fast-growing industry. A "crash course" at CMU taught Pittsburgh teachers how to introduce the technology to their students.
The Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures-created guide aims to dispel misconceptions about the process of commercialization. But ED Christy Wyskiel says that its use-value doesn't begin and end with JHU staff or students.
The sector building the tools of tomorrow is historically majority white and male — and so are the field's higher education programs. Local universities are working on it.
This month, the Technical.ly newsroom will be digging into what future technologists need to learn to break into the field.
Technologists can help create the next generation of VR talents by supporting the five-week program as industry mentors.