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Announcing the Aspire Scholarship
April 15, 2020
In an effort to help computer science and STEM technology graduates find employment during the COVID-19 crisis, emerging talent partner to global, blue-chip enterprises, mthree, in association with The Software Guild, will offer the Aspire Scholarship to provide an online full stack development bootcamp and job placement assistance.
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April 15, 2020
Announcing the Aspire Scholarship
In an effort to help computer science and STEM technology graduates find employment during the COVID-19 crisis, emerging talent partner to global, blue-chip enterprises, mthree, in association with The Software Guild, will offer the Aspire Scholarship to provide an online full stack development bootcamp and job placement assistance.
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July 29, 2019
Checking In On Obama’s TechHire – The Software Guild and LaGuardia Community College
In 2016, one of the TechHire grants went to LaGuardia Community College in New York City in the form a unique public/private partnership between state and federal agencies and The Software Guild, a Wiley brand, software development training company, Udaciity and others. The goal was to build a program open to LaGuardia students, taught by the private companies. It was the only community college working directly with a bootcamp to receive a TechHire grant and, according the announcement at the time, the program was to, “offer accelerated tech training for more than 300 low-income young adults over the next three years.”
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April 22, 2019
The Software Guild, A Wiley Brand, Partners With D’Youville College To Offer Coding Badges
The U.S. Department of Labor Statistics estimates that employment for software developers will grow 17 percent by the year 2024. To meet this demand, The Software Guild, a Wiley brand today announced it will expand its existing partnership with D'Youville College (D’Youville) to provide a flexible, online coding program that meets the evolving needs of the college’s growing student population.
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March 3, 2019
Demand for workers in Minnesota could expand sharply, raising pressure on employers, educators
Twin Cities training programs, such as Summit Academy, Prime Digital Academy’s IT-Ready, the Software Guild and other employer-nonprofit collaborations certified about 1,000 nontraditional IT workers between 2015 and 2017. By contrast, two- and four-year colleges in the region produce around 1,600 computer science graduates annually.
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February 1, 2019
The Software Guild’s Rachel McGalliard Mentoring at Louisville Business First’s “Bizwomen Mentoring Monday”
Join Louisville Business First on February 25th, at 8:00 am, for this one-of-a-kind event that brings together women in a casual, fast-paced coaching atmosphere. Mentoring Monday will offer the opportunity for you to choose from 40 mentors who are the most influential women in the business community for one-on-one coaching sessions for seven minute conversations.
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January 23, 2019
The Software Guild Launches Coding Badges to Meet Market Demand
According to projections by the U.S. Department of Labor, by the year 2020, the United States alone will have 1.4 million more software development jobs than applications to fill them. The Software Guild, a career-focused coding bootcamp, is working closely with individuals, companies and schools to close this gap by training apprentices to work with the latest technologies and find lifelong careers. To further meet the industry demand, The Software Guild has launched Coding Badges, an online program that is a cost-effective and flexible way for students to learn at their own pace and pay as they go.
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January 23, 2019
Why Build a Boot Camp?
"There are so many different types of partnerships between the schools," said Liz Eggleston, co-founder of Course Report, which monitors the bootcamp market. But it comes down to this, she pointed out: "Bootcamps get the panache of working with the university and universities get the trendy, cutting-edge skills that a bootcamp is teaching." Eggelston, who monitors such deals, has identified a number of formats followed in these partnerships including Online or blended bootcamps open to the public. This model is followed by the Software Guild, which works with University of Georgia and several other institutions to market the program. A blended option includes some face-to-face instruction on campuses.
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December 12, 2018
The Software Guild Launches New Partnership with University of Delaware’s Division of Professional and Continuing Studies, Expands Northeast U.S. Region
The Software Guild will partner with the University of Delaware’s Division of Professional and Continuing Studies (UD PCS) to bring its flexible coding education model to the northeast region of the United States. The bootcamps enable students to complete 10-to-14-month online coding programs in which they will earn badges indicating competency in certain .NET/C# or Java web development skills.
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November 19, 2018
The Software Guild Partners with the University of Northern Colorado to Bring New Coding Bootcamp to Fast Growing Tech Market
The Software Guild is bringing its successful coding bootcamp to one of the most rapidly growing tech markets in the country by teaming up with the University of Northern Colorado. Complementing traditional course offerings, The Software Guild and the University of Northern Colorado (UNC) will provide students with skills to better compete for careers in the burgeoning tech industry. The program, starting December 1, 2018, will feature badges that students earn as they gain competencies in .NET/C# or Java from the basics to full stack web development.
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October 18, 2018
Newsweek Top Coding Schools 2018
Do you know someone who codes for a living? A decade ago that question would have likely left you struggling for a name, whereas the same question asked now would probably produce 3 or 4 friends from the top of your head. Quite a shift in a short amount of time.
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October 9, 2018
Wiley Signs Definitive Agreement To Acquire Learning House From Weld North
“Learning House is a dynamic growth company and we are thrilled to have Todd Zipper and the Learning House team join the Wiley family,” said Brian Napack, President and CEO of Wiley. “The addition of Learning House to Wiley’s portfolio of tech-enabled education services positions us as a clear leader in the rapidly growing market for services that help institutions, corporations, professionals, and students to achieve their goals. Learning House will enable us to partner even more broadly with institutions and employers to give students a high-quality education, prepare them for the right job, and upskill and reskill them throughout their careers.
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July 4, 2018
How Women Can Stand Out In STEM
As someone who has steadily worked her way up in the male-dominated industry to Senior Vice President of Operations and General Manager of The Software Guild, I’ve learned a great deal. If you want to really stand out in a STEM vocation, these are the strategies that make all the difference.
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June 17, 2018
The Software Guild Encourages More Women To Learn How To Code
General Manager of The Software Guild Rachel McGalliard discusses how their program helps to eliminate the barriers prohibiting women from coding and STEM.
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March 27, 2018
Why Liberty Mutual’s CIO spearheaded a coding program for existing employees
For example, one Liberty employee turned to the "Java bootcamp" program in 2017 after 30 years with the company. The month-long initiative addressed assignments like front-end web development and allowed her to progress to a three-month Java course at the Software Guild. Since then, she changed positions within Liberty and is a developer on the customer success, corporate functions team.
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March 26, 2018
Seeking Developers, Liberty Mutual Sends Employees to Coding Bootcamps
Facing growing demand for software developers, Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. decided to send its employees back to school.
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March 9, 2018
Creating Opportunity for Women to Code
General Manager and SVP at The Software Guild weighs in on the reasons any woman, man, minority, young adult or career changer shouldn’t let their own doubts get in the way. Coding is a beneficial skill that reaches across industries.
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January 31, 2018
Phase 2 for Boot Camps
Skills boot camps continue to grow and diversify despite wave of consolidation, while traditional higher education increasingly absorbs aspects of the short-term training model.
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January 4, 2018
The Software Guild and TCU Partner to Offer Software Development Bootcamp
In partnership with Texas Christian University, The Software Guild is offering 10-14 month, online, master-apprentice coding boot camp.
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December 29, 2017
Minneapolis coding bootcamp sells training for tech careers
A for-profit training program called The Software Guild is offering another way to build technology skills.
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September 19, 2017
Ohio Boot Camp Touts Israeli Cybersecurity Experts to Draw Students
Ohio's The Software Guild partners with Israeli academy HackerUSA to give clients the 'tools used by the Israeli military'
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September 17, 2017
Israeli Hackers School Americans in Cyber Security
To develop the definitive training course for America’s future cybersecurity professionals, The Software Guild, an accelerated, hands-on coding boot camp based in Ohio, turned to Israel’s top hackers. Partnering with HackerUSA, Israel’s flagship IT and cyber security academy...
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September 11, 2017
Software Guild Calls Cybersecurity the ‘Logical Next Step’
No one can accuse the Software Guild of being asleep at the wheel when it comes to knowing what's affecting the business world. Just days before the giant Equifax data breach was revealed, the guild — which runs accelerated, boot camp-style coding programs — announced it was expanding into cybersecurity training.
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September 5, 2017
The Software Guild: A Different Kind of Coding Bootcamp
Technology has changed our world, and those changes are only accelerating. That means that the demands of the job market are changing as well. No longer is a four-year degree the best way to gain knowledge for a lifelong career.
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September 5, 2017
Newsweek: A Coding Career and You – Top Coding Schools 2017
Coding as an educational area and subsequent career path has gone through three distinct boom eras; initially in the early 80’s when the first wave of affordable personal computers broke upon homes around the world and made programming accessible to the public, then came the dot-com bubble in the late 90’s with entrepreneurs creating websites that made them millionaires, catching the attention of the students of the day.
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August 18, 2017
The 29 Top Coding Schools and Bootcamps of 2017
Here’s a rundown of the best coding schools still operating today, using data and reviews from SwitchUp‘s most recent ranking of the bootcamp ecosystem, and ignoring those that didn’t make at least 4 stars out of five.
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June 6, 2017
White House’s TechHire Job Training Initiative Takes Root in the Twin Cities
TechHire, a White House initiative, was designed to train more people for information technology jobs. In Minneapolis, 300 people participated in the program since its launch in 2015.
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May 26, 2017
Vision and Passion Lead to Web Development Bootcamp Success
The success of the program is in the numbers. The first graduation class at its Louisville location garnered a 100 percent job placement for its students, with an average annual salary increase of $20,000.
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May 10, 2017
What Happens When Universities and Bootcamps Join Forces?
Three years ago University of New Haven Provost Dan May was weighing how to respond to a shifting job market for his students. His institution was already working with outside help to rethink the school’s engineering education.
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March 27, 2017
Software Guild – Recognizing Outstanding Tech Companies & Entrepreneurs in the Region
These technology business awards shed light on innovative companies and leaders. They help OHTec promote this region as a remarkable place to work and live, where savvy companies are doing great things.
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March 17, 2017
Recruiters: Coding Talent Needed, Degree Optional
HackerRank finds that bootcamps and other alternatives to four-year degrees are now seen as viable.
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March 14, 2017
County, Private Businesses Launch Conexus to Better Connect Job Seekers and Employers
By Jim Mackinnon If you are looking for a job but don’t think you have what it takes to work in today’s sophisticated manufacturing or information technology environment, a whole lot of people want you to reconsider.
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March 1, 2017
Coding Boot Camps Band Together to Boost Accountability
Schools aim to avoid missteps of for-profit schools by issuing audited job-placement data
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March 1, 2017
Software Guild Commits to Transparency By Joining the Council on Integrity in Results Reporting (CIRR)
The Council on Integrity in Results Reporting's (CIRR) standards prevent deceptive graduation and job placement marketing practices and ensure a student can trust what a school advertises.
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March 1, 2017
Coding Bootcamps Commit to Transparency in Reporting Around Job Placement
A group of coding boot camps and white-collar training programs from around the country are banding together to create a single standard for reporting graduation and job placement data.
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February 26, 2017
A New Kind of Jobs Program For Middle America
Code schools and boot camps that teach computer programming skills prove they can rapidly retrain American workers for the 21st century.
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February 8, 2017
Software Guild Ranked #1 Best Coding Bootcamp by HackerRank
TechHire, which is powered by the Opportunity@Work nonprofit, targeted developer communities in 9 states. Fifteen bootcamps participated, and The Software Guild stood out
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February 3, 2017
How Louisville Expects to Fill its Tech Job Gap
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that by the year 2020, there could be as many as 1.4 million open computer and computer science jobs across the nation — but only 400,000 computer science graduates. This means about 1 million good, high-paying jobs will have no one to fill them.
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February 1, 2017
Coding Boot Camps Gain Steam
The goal of these boot camps are to fill the mounting talent gap in the technology workforce by connecting new trainees with the employers who need them.
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January 24, 2017
Tech Educators Discuss Tech Talent in Louisville
February Venture Connectors: Tech educators discuss tech talent in Louisville By MELISSA CHIPMAN | January 24, 2016 8:38 am Share on FacebookTweet about this on TwitterShare on Google+Share on LinkedInEmail this to someonePrint this page VentureConnectors-300x156February’s Venture Connectors luncheon will be held Wednesday, Feb. 3, and will feature a panel of tech educators from Code Louisville and The Software Guild who’ll discuss the state of tech talent in Louisville.
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January 20, 2017
Creating IT Futures Foundation, EMERGE & Minneapolis Mayor’s Office Partner on Women-Only IT Career Program
EDINA, Minn., Jan. 20, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Creating IT Futures Foundation, EMERGE Community Development and Mayor Betsy Hodges and the City of Minneapolis are offering a free, women-only class of the foundation's IT-Ready career program as part of the Minneapolis TechHire initiative.
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January 13, 2017
The Art of Workforce Development
Injecting STEAM curriculum into education programs aims to build innovative thinking into math, science skills.
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January 4, 2017
Software Craftsmanship Guild Cranks Out Developers — Who Land Jobs
Time and again, the Akron-based school has proven that it can take people with almost no software development experience and turn them into professional programmers — in just three months. And they land jobs fast. Usually before they graduate.
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January 12, 2016
Serious Students Only: Coding Bootcamps’ Success for Workforce Preparation
Coding bootcamps have emerged as an alternative to a traditional computer science degree. According to Course Report, there are over 300 camps operating in 51 US and Canadian cities.
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November 20, 2015
Filling the Tech Talent Pipeline in Louisville
The strength of Louisville’s entrepreneurial community is only as impactful as the strong-willed entrepreneurs and the resources they have to accomplish their goals.
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The Software Guild Celebrates New Louisville Location
Marking the expansion of its Louisville location, The Software Guild, a 12-week coding bootcamp which teaches .NET and Java skills, held a ribbon cutting ceremony today in celebration of its new office space. This addition to The Software Guild’s instructional space for students is on its recently opened location, which just began offering classes in September.
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November 16, 2015
Company Works to Attract Tech Talent to Louisville
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A company is trying to attract tech talent to Louisville. Mayor Fischer attended Monday's ribbon cutting for the Software Guild's new headquarters at South Floyd and East Market streets.
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November 3, 2015
‘Challenging in a life-defining way’: Software Guild’s First Cohort is Underway
Aaron Denney, 26, worked for Walmart in the Shepherdsville area for seven years, but now he’s in week seven of the Software Guild, where he’s learning .NET/C# coding. He’s in the first cohort of the Louisville coding bootcamp.
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October 14, 2015
The Software Guild Coding Bootcamp: 12 Weeks of Skill Development
The Software Guild’s 12-week, full-time program graduates coders who are employable as junior programmers. The program has a 95 percent placement rate in 90 days, and if you’re not placed immediately, you’re eligible to keep taking classes for free.
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August 16, 2015
Bootcamp Hopes to Diversify Tech Industry
He referenced the Software Guild in Akron. The guild, which has helped about 100 graduates land jobs over the past two years, was bought by an online education company called The Learning House Inc. a few months ago.
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August 6, 2015
Akron Coding ‘Boot Camps’ Could Expand Thanks to Federal Grant
Since 2013, the Akron Global Business Accelerator has offered a coding boot camp through its Software Guild, and the grant money could go to expanding that program. Eric Wise founded the program, and says it’s not unlike apprenticeships that have been training people for hundreds of years.
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August 5, 2015
White House Adds Akron to its TechHire Program
Akron could end up launching more coding bootcamps like the one run by the Software Guild, now that it is a TechHire City. Akron is one of 10 cities and states that the White House added to its TechHire program.
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July 23, 2015
The Software Guild Launches First Software Coding Bootcamp in Kentucky
The Software Guild, which operates coding bootcamps across the United States, is launching a coding bootcamp campus in Louisville, Ky. The bootcamp teaches .NET and Java skills in an intensive, face-to-face, 12-week course, leaving graduates with in-demand technical skills for potential employers.
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July 23, 2015
The Software Guild Launches First Software Coding Bootcamp in Kentucky
In its Akron and Minneapolis locations, The Software Guild has a 95 percent job placement rate, and it hopes to replicate that in Louisville. It is working to develop partnerships with area employers, helping to connect graduates with jobs and teach the skills employers need.
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July 23, 2015
The Software Guild Launches First Software Coding Bootcamp in Kentucky
The Software Guild, which operates coding bootcamps across the United States, is launching a coding bootcamp campus in Louisville, Ky. The bootcamp teaches .NET and Java skills in an intensive, face-to-face, 12-week course, leaving graduates with in-demand technical skills for potential employers.
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October 18, 2014
Ages-old Apprentice Model Successfully Turns Out 21st Century Software Coders in Akron
One big problem. Stacy, 28, wasn’t a programmer. And he also didn’t want to return to college and spend years and a lot of money getting another degree. He looked around and found a number of “boot camps” that promised to teach software coding in a relatively short period of time.
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July 10, 2014
In Akron, a Coding Bootcamp Draws Students Looking For a Career Re-Start
What if you didn’t need to spend four years in college studying computer science to get a job as a software developer? What if you could learn what you need to know to write code in just three months? That’s the idea behind so-called “coding boot camps” that are springing up around the country.
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June 1, 2014
At Software Craftsmanship Guild, Everyone’s an Apprentice in the Innovation Economy
At boot camp for computer coders, Sass met other men and women like himself--non-techies seeking an abrupt career change. Sooner than he expected, he was learning languages called C sharp and Java and telling computers what to do.
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February 20, 2014
Interview With Hiring Manager Who Works With The Software Craftsmanship Guild
David Basarab is a hiring manager at Cinemassive in Atlanta who works with the Software Craftsmanship Guild to hire talented .NET developers. Find out what he's looking for in a junior developer, how his relationship with SWCG is structured, and why he sees bootcamp-grads better prepared for his workforce than even recent college grads.
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February 14, 2014
Eric Wise of Software Craftsmanship Guild on Accrediting Coding Schools
We talk with Eric Wise, founder of the SWCG in Akron, Ohio, about his .NET bootcamp that's helping to fill open tech jobs in the Midwest, the importance of working with your state's regulatory agencies, and exactly what it means to be a "compliant" coding school.
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September 30, 2013
It’s Not Too Late to Learn to Code (Or Do Anything, For That Matter)
Although I dreaded the idea of sitting in front of a computer drowning in code all day, I signed up anyway to be an apprentice this summer at the Software Craftsmanship Guild, a 12-week program teaching the .NET framework in Akron, Ohio, because I wanted to become more tech literate.
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September 1, 2013
Akron Software Guild Students Are Getting With the Program
Lindsay Parker of Lakewood was unemployed when she joined the Software Craftsmanship Guild. She is now working on software designed to help her stay nourished during the North Coast 24-Hour Endurance Run at Edgewater Park.
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