Alumni Stories
Alumni Stories
From Peace Corps to Predicting Weather: Mark Ehler’s Story
After returning from the Peach Corps, Mark Ehler worked in a retina lab but wanted to improve lives in a bigger way. Mark enrolled in Flatiron School and now uses machine learning principles to better predict weather pattens.
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A Flatiron School alumna finds a connected community in West Palm Beach, FL
Meet Jenna F., one of our online software engineering grads, living and working in Palm Beach! After graduating from college with a degree in economics and business studies, plus a finance internship under her belt, Jenna turned to Flatiron School to pair her business experience and communication skills with a career in code. What inspired […]
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A Mom’s Day in the Life at an Online Coding Bootcamp
At Flatiron School, when you choose to learn to code online, you choose from three different pacing options: full-time, part-time or self-paced. Each pace offers the same curriculum, but prescribes differently weekly time commitments fit for different types of learners and lifestyles. Childcare, family commitments, keeping your day job, physical limitations: these factors all play […]
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An Attorney’s Day in the Life while Learning at an Online Coding Bootcamp
Over the past few years, according to LinkedIn’s 2020 Emerging Jobs Report, online learning has increasingly become more popular and continues to see demand for more flexible learning solutions. At Flatiron School, we’ve seen that need firsthand. From keeping your day job to balancing childcare, our students need flexible learning solutions fit for a wide […]
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A Day in the Life of a Full-Time Online Student
When you think of going to a coding bootcamp full-time, it’s fairly easy to picture your daily schedule on campus: classes, a lunch break, more classes and lectures. But what happens when you choose to study full-time online? Jenny K., a full-time data science student in Flatiron School’s Online Data Science program living and learning […]
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A Mom’s Day in the Life at an Online Data Science Bootcamp
When you think of going to school, it’s fairly easy to picture your daily schedule: classes, a lunch break, more classes and lectures. But what happens when you choose to study online? When the four walls of the classroom become the four walls of your living room or local coffee shop, where do you find […]
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Future Focus: A London creative looks to the future of tech
Meet JiaXuan Hong, a creative turned coder. JiaXuan was running her own creative agency supporting modern dance projects that incorporated technology. Fascinated by the future of tech, she turned to Flatiron School to study software engineering. Now, she's a developer at ThoughtWorks, a global technology consultancy. As part of our Future Focus series, we caught […]