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- Season 2, Episode 7: Kai Bockmann
- Season 2, Episode 8: Finding Your Place in Publishing with Heidi Waechtler
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Lighthouse Labs Prize
Lighthouse Labs is a Vancouver-based coding school, where students learn full-stack web development through immersive bootcamp-style courses. Fast paced and rigorous, classes are focus on minimizing lectures and maximizing the time spent on building things in supervised labs so that students learn more in a shorter amount of time.
Lighthouse Labs' Web Development bootcamp takes students through the fundamentals of source control using Git, HTML, CSS and stylesheet preprocessors, Ruby on Rails framework, Javascript and the jQuery framework as well as Node.js. As part of the course, students also have the opportunity contribute to open source projects and build their own apps under the supervision of a team of industry experts. The course is ideal for anyone looking to enter the startup community or build their own web applications.
Established in 2014 with a generous gift from Lighthouse Labs, this annual prize provides a space in their specialized Web Development Bootcamp to one current FCAT student or recent alumnus each year. Valued at $14,000, the prize recognizes promising, creative students from any area of FCAT who have a demonstrated interest in web development.
Read about Nico Hernandez’s experience in the Fall 2022 bootcamp here.
Applications are now OPEN for 2023 Web Development Bootcamp.
Applicants must:
- Apply below by July 31, 2023. As part of your application, you are required to attach your unofficial transcript and a letter of reference from a faculty member or employer who can attest to your abilities, initiative and contributions to their organization.
- Be registered as a current FCAT student in good academic standing or be a recent alumnus of an FCAT program.
The prize winner will receive free tuition for a 2023 Lighthouse Labs Bootcamp. Before beginning the bootcamp, they will be required to complete 70 hours of prep work.