Flatiron School

If Flatiron School is known for one thing, it's giving people the skills they need for jobs they truly love. The White House has featured Flatiron School's Fellowship program on their website to promote Tech Hire — an initiative for people with low-income wages to boost their quality of life and address the nation's growing […]

You may not have heard Yukihiro Matsumoto’s name before, but it’s almost guaranteed you know his life’s work. Matsumoto (Matz for short) taught himself programming in high school and went on to graduate from the University of Tsukuba with a degree in information science. While there, he partook in a research lab and continued to […]

D. Frank Smith wrote an article at EdTech highlighting the booming popularity of coding — and how Flatiron School is filling that much-needed gap in lieu of traditional education settings. Click here to read more about the Pre-College Academy and how Flatiron School finds fantastic teachers.  

If you attended high school any time after 1999, odds are you’ve read Justin Kestler’s work. As the original editor-in-chief of SparkNotes, Justin taught himself rudimentary web development and went on to become the senior managing director of digital for Teach for America (TFA). After his experience there, Justin knew he needed more technical training, […]

Suma Reddy graduated from Flatiron's iOS 003 cohort about a year ago, and she's already presenting her app to some of the nation's top leaders. Yesterday President Obama hosted the first-ever White House Demo day, with a focus on entrepreneurship and diverse startup founders. Public and private leaders attended the event, including the co-founder of Pinterest and […]

Alan Kay began life as a precocious learner. Raised in the household of a father who designed limb prostheses and a mother who played music, the ambiance of art, science, and learning later infused itself into his lifetime body of work. He avidly read books before entering elementary school, and went on to study mathematics […]