Dalton Ricker was originally set to enroll at Georgia Tech for college. In a last-minute pivot, he decided to attend the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. Little did he know that after earning a degree in marine engineering systems and spending six years as a marine engineer, he would end up back at Georgia Tech. Dalton had…
Home to the fourth-largest tech incubator in the country, a thriving business community, and top-ranked educational institutions, there are more than enough factors that have set Atlanta up as a top tech player. In fact, it’s one of the best places in the U.S. to be a web developer this year. Let’s take a closer…
Will Rackley is a former NFL athlete, a current professional artist, and a boot camp-educated coder. In other words, there isn’t much that he hasn’t tackled. Born in Athens, Greece to a military family, Will moved around a lot growing up. He graduated from Lehigh University, then got drafted to the NFL in 2011 as…
By Jacob Lamont Pop quiz: What do Edge of Tomorrow, Groundhog Day, and Dr. Strange have in common? They’re all movies you say? Yes, that’s true. Good job. But, more importantly, all three demonstrate the power of repetition. Pop quiz: What do Edge of Tomorrow, Groundhog Day, and Dr. Strange have in common? They’re all movies you say? Yes, that’s… Wait a minute.…
If you had asked Anna Sylvester a year ago what her future holds, she would have talked about living in the mountains making tie-dye fabric art. Today, however, Anna is living in Atlanta and focused not on cloth but on coding. Anna’s fascination with coding began when she discovered Georgia Tech Coding Boot Camp. In fact, she was…
While attending the Georgia Tech Coding Boot Camp, Steve Tucker worked with a team of other learners to develop GhostedBy, an app that allows users to report when a company “ghosts” them by not responding to their follow-ups after an in-person interview. In addition to empowering job seekers, the app is designed to help companies with their online…
When Josh Dodd and his wife moved from Colorado to Georgia, trading the mountains for oaks and Spanish moss may have posed a challenge, but it didn’t constitute a problem. Certainly not for Josh, who viewed the change of scenery as an opportunity to try something he had always wanted to do: coding. So he enrolled in…
Signing up for a coding boot camp is a big commitment. Learning a dozen new programming languages and software to build a portfolio of real-world projects takes a lot of work. Now imagine that you’re also working a full-time job while attending classes. And you just had your second baby. Piece of cake, right? Welcome…
Geoffrey Goodwin was flying high in 2018 after he built a voice-controlled drone with his team in the Georgia Tech Coding Boot Camp. That drone may be grounded these days, but his career has since taken off. “It’s been a complete life changer, which I’m very grateful for,” said Geoffrey. Ready to take his career to new heights,…
