Dev Catalyst Alumni Spotlight: Luke Potasiewicz
Dev Catalyst is approaching its eighth year and as alumni begin to graduate we’re continually amazed by their achievements. The goal from the beginning has been to provide industry-current coding education to build our nation’s tech talent pipeline. Working specifically to cultivate students’ skills in web development, physical computing, UX, and data management.
Celebrating Three Years of Dev Catalyst
Dev Catalyst, formerly known as CO:de Catalyst, is an initiative to encourage growth of the West Tennessee region by providing web coding instruction to high school students in much needed areas. The program recently completed its third year with its annual trip to California’s Silicon Valley.
Wowed by our CO:de Catalyst Students
As the Fall semesters come to an end we wanted to give a quick update on CO:de Catalyst, our program for high school students working in a class or a club to utilize a web platform to teach them how to code to build websites and apps...
Co:de Catalyst Student Feature: Ryan Butler
Meet Ryan Butler, a soon-to-be graduate of Liberty Technology Magnet High School and Co:de Catalyst veteran. We asked Ryan a few questions about his second year participating in the program and heard about where he thinks coding will take him.
Co:de Catalyst Student Feature: Shelby Larson
"My favorite part of Co:de Catalyst was participating in the project competition. I enjoyed putting what I had learned to use by designing a website"
Co:de Catalyst Student Feature: Wilbur Pope
"coding is exciting because you can do practically anything using code (especially making games)"
Co:de Catalyst Student Feature: Steven Prescott
"I can see myself waking up every morning, putting on a tech company's t-shirt, and writing code for a few hours. The best part would be working on something that could benefit a lot of people. That's my dream job."