The NYC Fellowship is a 22-week training program designed to equip New Yorkers with the skills needed to launch careers in tech. Offered free of cost through the NYC Tech Talent Pipeline, with support from the Robin Hood Foundation, this iteration of the Fellowship serves foreign born New Yorkers who are authorized to work in the United States.
13 percent. That’s how many female teenagers consider a STEM field as their first choice for their future career. Luckily, many people and organizations – including the White House – are working to figure out how to get more young women excited about science, math and technology. It’s also a topic that is catching the attention of more unexpected advocates, like model Karlie Kloss.
Meet Sarah Bly, winner of the SwitchUp Scholarship and teacher at Beta Academy, a free charter school in Richmond, CA. She’s an ambassador for code and technology in schools, and wants to join Flatiron’s online campus, Learn, to accelerate her own programming education so she can help her students even more.
Michael Perritano is familiar with tactical operations, but after leaving the United States Army in 2011 with 10 years of service under his belt, he became acquainted with an operation of a different kind. The organization Operation Code partners with the Flatiron School’s online campus – Learn – to help former military personnel build new skills.
We’re excited to share that the second annual Kode With Klossy summer camp is now accepting applications for three locations across the country: NY, LA and St Louis. Spearheaded by model and all around awesome woman Karlie Kloss (trust us on that one, she’s a student here!), the program teaches girls the ins and outs of programming languages used behind apps such as Twitter and The New York Times.
Check out the latest online lecture by our co-founder, Avi, and learn how to code Taylor Swift’s song “Shake It Off.”
Flatiron School offers a range of coding bootcamp scholarships to encourage more women to learn to code and explore careers in web development.
A former Ruby on Rails developer, John noticed the lack of programming opportunities for girls and wanted to build a tool to change that.
This is the launch of Flatiron School’s speed dating event, though not the kind you might expect.