Dev Catalyst Alumni Spotlight: Alex Tetzlaff and Limitless Puzzles
With its infinite possibilities, Tetzlaff was drawn to coding after spending years intrigued with computers and striving to understand how they worked, so when his high school announced they would be offering the Dev Catalyst program, he jumped at the opportunity to participate.
Dev Catalyst Alumni Spotlight: Shaival Modi and Learning to Fail
We’re catching up with Shaival Modi, junior computer engineering major at the University of Memphis and this week’s Dev Catalyst Alumni Spotlight. He shares about his current internship at International Paper, and how he was also able to walk away from the San Francisco trip with significant life lessons, like learning the value of networking, after visiting all the different tech companies.
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.
Dev Catalyst Celebrates Another Great Trip to San Francisco
A few months ago, over 200 students submitted their final projects from their Dev Catalyst coding classes to our competition. Out of those, 21 exceptional students were awarded an all expenses paid tech tour of San Francisco. The trip, which is the sixth of its nature, gives students the chance to visit some top companies in Silicon Valley and discover the vast career options available to those in tech.
Dev Catalyst Students Are San Francisco Bound!
Dev Catalyst is rooted in developing student coders who are marketable in today’s workforce and we offer three high school competition categories: Hardware Development, Novice Web Development, and Data Development. Over two hundred students submitted competition entries this year alone. Eighty students were named code leaders and invited to celebrate at Awardaganza hosted at theCO.
Dev Catalyst Teachers On Improved Classrooms
theCO’s program, Dev Catalyst, annually hosts a competition for local students who are interested in coding and robotics. Throughout the course of the program, nearly 800 students participated in one of three categories (Novice Web Development, Advanced Web Development, and Data Development) in order to learn teamwork skills, develop professional skills, network with tech professionals, and hopefully win the grand prize trip to San Francisco, California.
Dev Catalyst Becomes CSforAll Member
“Support local change,” “increase rigor and equity,” and “grow the movement.” These are three things that one would see when first opening the CSforAll webpage. The CSforAll Consortium is a effort started by the National Science Foundation to make computer science accessible for all students nationwide. Recently, the organization has added Dev Catalyst, a program of theCO, as a new consortium member alongside big tech companies like Google, Dell, Facebook, and Teach For America.
Dev Catalyst Celebrates Its Fifth Annual San Francisco Trip
During the start of the 2017-2018 school year, high school students began applying to theCO’s Dev Catalyst program, a curriculum designed to cultivate and grow the abilities of students with technological talents in the greater West Tennessee area. Throughout the course of the program, nearly 800 students participated in one of three categories (Novice Web Development, Advanced Web Development, and Data Development) in order to learn teamwork skills, develop professional skills, network with tech professionals, and hopefully win the grand prize trip to San Francisco, California.