Supporting Sioux Falls’ Startup Scene

March 21, 2017 - bluemonkeydev

Planning for Paul Singh’s Sioux Falls tour is coming together well. A number of businesses have stepped up to sponsor the Results Junkies Road Tour including Zeal, The Bakery, Sanford Health, Meta Bank, Sioux Falls Startup Week, Throne Publishing, MarketBeat, Co-Op Architecture, Code Bootcamp, and BrightPlanet. Thank you all!

These sponsors know the true value of having a tour like the Results Junkies Road Tour spend a week in Sioux Falls. Our community is ripe for entrepreneurial growth and having a national spotlight on what we have to offer is the exact energy that we need to kickstart our growth.

Code Bootcamp accepting applications for 2017 class

February 26, 2017 - bluemonkeydev

Are you ready for a career change? Code Bootcamp of South Dakota is accepting student applications.

During our first eighteen months of operation, Code Bootcamp has trained fifteen entry-level web developers for our region through three boot camps. Of those fifteen students, almost half have been women, three moved from other states to attend, one was a high school student, three are now pursuing additional higher education, and all are self-employed or working in their field. Businesses that have hired our graduates include Sterling E-Marketing, Power Drive Holdings, Meta Payment Systems, VVI, and Midcontinent.

Future of Tech Start Up Sioux Falls Panel

November 14, 2016 - bluemonkeydev

Code Bootcamp’s co-founder has coordinated a “Future of Tech Start Up” panel this week in partnership with The Bakery as a part of Global Entrepreneurship Week.

This event is open to the public, so please join us on Wednesday, November 16 from 5:30 to 7:00pm at The Bakery. Read more

Properly Preparing Our Girls for the Future

October 16, 2016 - bluemonkeydev

On October 15, 2016 Embe co-hosted the first ever Girl’s Maker Day geared towards building confidence in making and getting girls excited about fields where women are traditionally under-represented. The fair included all hands-on activities including video game programming, chemistry, design thinking, 3D printing, and more.

This summer we hosted nine Gaming Bootcamps around our region that included 133 kids. Out of all of those kids, most of them were boys, which just breaks my heart. We struggled to get six girls to attend our camp that we co-hosted with the Girl Scouts. Read more

Gaming Bootcamp is Expanding into South Dakota’s Indian Reservations

June 4, 2016 - bluemonkeydev

We will be teaching kids around South Dakota how to build video games with the help of AT&T

Code Bootcamp, Sioux Falls Diversity Council, and AT&T team up to teach STEM education on South Dakota’s Indian reservations through building video games, and we are so excited.

The Sioux Falls Diversity Council has received an $11,000 contribution from AT&T that will target STEM education for Native American grade school students in South Dakota. The grant will support our Code Bootcamp of Sioux Falls program to teach programming skills to students on various South Dakota’s Indian reservations.

Code Bootcamp Opens Applications

February 21, 2016 - bluemonkeydev

Summer 2016 Registration Open

I am so excited that we are launching our third Code Bootcamp of South Dakota this summer. We can’t wait to start our next session, we have learned so much from our first two bootcamps. Our twelve week educational experience focuses on academic learning, hands-on projects and group activities, all the details can be found at: Read more

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