Women-only, tuition-free computer programming school opens

Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2015-02-03 05:02

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'Ada Developers Academy today announced that it will spin out of the Technology Alliance and become its own non-profit organization.

The Seattle-based, tuition-free coding school for women, which we featured last week on GeekWire, will end its formal incubation period with the Tech Alliance and begin transitioning to a standalone non-profit.

“One of the Tech Alliance’s greatest strengths is identifying a need, developing a solution, and finding the right people to make it work,” Susannah Malarkey, Executive Director of the Tech Alliance and co-founder of Ada Developers Academy, said in a statement. “We’re proud that Ada has met with such success, and are looking forward to its next chapter.”

Founded in 2013, Ada offers a year-long software development program that includes six months of intense classroom instruction followed by six months at an internship. Tuition is free thanks to corporate sponsors like Expedia and Zillow that help shape the program’s curriculum, provide mentorship, and offer internships to the students that provide a bridge between the classroom and the real world.'

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