Blog Category: In the News

Updated as of April 2, 2020 Due to increasing concerns about the spread of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), Georgia Tech Boot Camp classes will be held via video conferencing technology until further notice. To ensure a seamless transition, we’re providing extra training to all active instructional staff on how to effectively lead classes on Zoom through…

Today’s tech industry faces an ongoing and visible issue: there simply are not enough women in the field. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, women make up half of the nation’s workforce and more than half of its population, yet, they are still significantly underrepresented across all areas of the tech sector, accounting for only…

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…

Every month, Trilogy hosts dozens of community tech events to give bootcamp students the chance to share the incredible projects they’ve created in class. Students get to brush up on their presentation skills, show off their work to local tech professionals, and expand their networks. Last month, reporter Katie Nussbaum from the Savannah Morning News joined Georgia Tech-Savannah’s Coding Boot…

This piece, written by Muriel Vega, originally appeared on Hypepotamus. After six years in the U.S. Air Force, Kenneth Barnes wanted to come back to his original social work-oriented career path — with a tech twist. Upon realization of how technology could help the family services field from document submission to case management, Barnes decided to enroll in Georgia Tech’s Coding…

The internet is the best, and sometimes only, link to fundamental information and networks, but code is the power to unlock it all. As web design and development move to the forefront in today’s economy, Georgia-Tech Savannah this week graduated its first Coding Boot Camp. The intense six-month program teaches the fundamentals of coding and…

In the Oscar-nominated film “Hidden Figures,” Dorothy Vaughan (played by Octavia Spencer) works at NASA as an unofficial supervisor over a group of “computers” women who performed mathematical calculations long before electronic computers became commercially available. When she learns an IBM 7090 is being installed, she immediately understands the ramifications. She and her co-workers will…