Education

Gaming Bootcamp is Expanding into South Dakota’s Indian Reservations

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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.

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Code Bootcamp Opens Applications

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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

The future of South Dakota is in good hands

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Leadership South Dakota has a goal to build the next generation of South Dakota leaders. As their second class kicked off earlier this month (September 10-13, 2015), a hand-selected group of 43 leaders descended on Pierre, South Dakota to embark on the first of seven sessions scheduled throughout our state in the coming months. Leadership South Dakota has set a big goal, but I am confident we will not let then down.

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Bootcamp Underway

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Code Bootcamp launched on May 26th with 9 students! We have been working hard, touring local technology businesses and starting our work projects. In the coming weeks we will be profiling each of our students, so keep an eye out for those. A quick insight into our students include three who have moved to Sioux Falls from out of state, three women and one high-school student! Read more

Code Bootcamp Signs a Lease

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Code Bootcamp has signed a lease for our training center and office — now we are completely legit!

Our training center is located in the Rock Island Building at 300 North Phillips Avenue. This is where Click Rain, Better Business Bureau, Verizon and Co-Op Architecture are also located. If you need even more references, we are directly across the street from the Orpheum theater in beautiful downtown Sioux Falls.

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