A year passed and it is the time to review what we have done at CodeWeekend in the past year. Everyone gets into one or another type of conclusion for the year when it ends, and ours I can say is a positive one. We have done so much in the year 2022 and it was certainly one of our most productive years since 2014.
The third cohort
We organized the 3rd cohort of our coding bootcamp program. We received over 250 applications and of course as the nature of how we designed our program, not everyone gets in and can graduate. It is not a course as I say to our students — it is a Bootcamp. The program now runs strongly with 30 students, and they are for sure the best ones out there. By February 2023 they will be graduating as full-stack developers, and some have already found jobs and are hired.
Instructors and mentors
CodeWeekend is run by instructors and mentors. We worked with an incredible number of instructors and mentors and they have done so much to bring a lot of value to our students and to the CodeWeekend community.
Their dedication — many of them volunteers contributing hours from full-time jobs — is what makes the program work.
Our partners
We couldn’t have a wonderful year without the support of our partners. I want to mention one of our major supporters: Hackajob. Hackajob’s support has been phenomenal in helping us achieve our goals and run our programs. They provided scholarships for 20 female students to take part in our Coding Bootcamp program. Additionally, they organized a fundraising and their team ran a half-marathon to support the education of developers in Afghanistan.
Another major supporter of our program was Scrimba. Scrimba provided a year of free access to their premium courses and content for 100 of our students. It is a generous support and had a lot of impact and helped our students learn a wide range of skills, especially on the frontend side of technologies.
What’s ahead in 2023
We are planning to hire full time employees working in many areas of CodeWeekend. I think we are ready for that after more than 8 years of operation. As our third cohort finishes, we will be starting our 4th cohort of CodeWeekend Bootcamp. Having full time staff looking after many parts of our delivery and the program, we will be in a much better position and will be able to scale our work easily.
You can support our work by hiring or providing internships to our future graduates, sponsoring our events, or donating to help us launch our upcoming Coding Bootcamp.
— The CodeWeekend Team