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Technical.ly - 1/10/2022
Over the next three years, more than 200 low income Delawareans most impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic will receive full tuition and living stipends to attend Zip Code Wilmington’s 12-week bootcamp with a Break Into Tech Scholarship.
Continue ReadingDelaware Today - 12/13/2021
What does it take to be a top woman in business? Delaware Today voted for these 40 inspirational careerists in multiple industries. We share their stories here.
Continue ReadingCIO - 12/13/2021
A common misconception about tech workers of a certain vintage is that they’re caught in the past and either overqualified or unable to adapt to future technology. As with most conventional wisdom, there’s as much fiction as fact surrounding the supposed work habits and career opportunities for veteran IT pros — even those as young as 40.
Continue ReadingCIO Spain - 12/10/2021
Una idea errónea sobre los trabajadores tecnológicos de cierta antigüedad es que están atrapados en el pasado y están sobrecualificados o son incapaces de adaptarse a la tecnología del futuro. Como ocurre con la mayor parte de la sabiduría convencional, hay tanta ficción como realidad en torno a los supuestos hábitos de trabajo y las oportunidades profesionales de los profesionales veteranos de la informática, incluso de los que tienen 40 años.
Continue ReadingDelaware Online - 12/5/2021
It was only two years ago when companies large and small around the globe were looking toward a bright future. March 2020 brought shutdown orders across the nation which brought the economy to a screeching halt. Over the past 18 months of trying to beat back the COVID-19 pandemic, a cosmic shift quietly happened across the world and our economy.
Continue ReadingABC 6 Action News - 11/12/2021
There has never been a better time to transition careers. From free courses to low-cost degree programs, there are new opportunities to learn and train across many industries for the future.
Continue ReadingTechnical.ly - 11/2/2021
Do you need a college degree to work in tech? We know that in most cases, the answer is a hard no.
It’s How to Get a Tech Job Month at Technical.ly, so we rounded up your options for locally focused coding bootcamps — many devs’ first step toward, indeed, landing a coveted tech job.
Continue ReadingLive Love Delaware - 10/28/2021
Success for Zip Code Wilmington can be defined in many ways, but Executive Director Desa Burton lights up when she talks about a recent student who loaded everything he owned into a car and drove to Wilmington from Dallas to join the program.
Continue ReadingPhiladelphia CityBiz - 10/24/2021
Be it curling up with a good binge-sesh, taking a long bath or getting a bit of exercise, we’ve all got ways to decompress after the day is finally over. And technologists are no exception.
Continue ReadingTechnical.ly - 10/22/2021
Any time we get a chance to ask technologists what they wish they’d known when they first started their careers, we do it.
Continue ReadingDICE - 10/19/2021
When people switch jobs to pursue a technology career, it takes the right type of program to help them with reskilling. The tech industry is working on diversifying its workforce, and offers lots of resources to reskill these underrepresented technologists.
Continue ReadingDelaware Online - 10/6/2021
“You’re going to do this, too,” the older gentleman said, kindly wagging his finger at me.
“No, no. I’m just here for support,” I replied with a smile.
And the seed was planted.
Continue ReadingDETV - 10/5/2021
JJ sits down with the guys from Zip Code Wilmington to talk about their public school initiative, Blue Notes, early coding education, and jazz.
Continue ReadingTechnical.ly - 9/27/2021
Coding bootcamps started in 2011 to solve one problem: a shortage of technical talent. Soon after, many began addressing a second one: a lack of diversity among the technical workforce.
Continue ReadingTechnical.ly - 9/22/2021
Explaining what your tech occupation is can be difficult enough at a networking reception or professional event. Explaining it to a child of kindergarten age, however, presents its own quirky challenge.
Continue ReadingCNBC - 9/22/2021
As I wrote about last week, people are quitting their jobs at record rates. And while a lucky few are doing so to take a break from work altogether, most are hoping to land something better. Approximately 55% of American adults are planning a switch, according to Bankrate’s August job seeker survey.
Continue ReadingDelaware Online - 9/2/2021
With the exodus of women from the workforce creating a national emergency, the time has come for a national model by which women and BIPOC communities have accessible job training to increase their earning potential for life.
Continue ReadingPhiladelphia CityBiz - 7/29/2021
YearUp, Inc. and Zip Code Wilmington, two nonprofit workforce and tech training organizations, are helping graduating high school seniors and current college students gain valuable Java software programming skills and paid internships, so they can escape minimum wage jobs and secure meaningful careers in the technology sector.
Continue ReadingTechnical.ly - 7/28/2021
Twenty young leaders in Delaware have been named as winners of the 2021 Impact Award by the Millennial Summit planning committee and Delaware Awards subcommittee.
Continue ReadingAuthority Magazine - 7/26/2021
The ability to de-escalate a situation will always be extremely valuable no matter where you work. When I was a flight attendant, this skill was mostly used with upset passengers or coworkers, but this skill will always be helpful in any situation where someone is stressed out.
Continue ReadingCheddar News - 7/16/2021
Desa Burton, Executive Director of Zip Code Wilmington, joins ChedHER to discuss her career journey from a former U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander to the nonprofit world, and how the work that Zip Code Wilmington is doing is creating a national model for reskilling and upskilling the workforce.
Continue ReadingTHRIVE - 7/10/2021
Being able to pick up on and remember details and apply them to your work or use this when interacting with others is invaluable in staying on track and keeping perspective. Not only will this help you help you in your own work, it will gain you respect from those around you.
Continue ReadingTechnical.ly - 7/7/2021
The beauty of a summer BBQ at a block party, like most worthy things in life, is how all of the ingredients work together.
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The beauty of a summer BBQ at a block party, like most worthy things in life, is how all of the ingredients work together.
Continue ReadingTechnical.ly - 6/25/2021
Philadelphia’s tech sector is growing at a slow-but-steady rate. But as the need for new and specialized talent increases, local leaders will need to continue to look in less traditional places for new talent.
Continue ReadingTechnical.ly - 6/21/2021
CodeBoxx, a coding bootcamp with a presence in Canada and Florida’s Tampa Bay area, has plans to expand into Philadelphia later this year. It’s the most recent of several tech skills training orgs to announce plans to open a local outpost in the past few months.
Continue ReadingTechnical.ly - 6/11/2021
Nonprofit coding bootcamp Zip Code Wilmington made its share of pivots in 2020, from going all-virtual to partnering with the state for the Rapid Workforce Training and Redeployment Initiative.
Continue ReadingDelaware Business Times - 5/28/2021
A year ago, Zip Code Wilmington was running one of the most popular coding boot camps in the region when COVID-19 upended its in-person instruction model and hiring pipeline.
Although unemployment grew to historic levels, Zip Code Executive Director Desa Burton said she never had a second of doubt that employers would return to hiring for tech roles once concerns began to fade.
Continue ReadingRecruiter.com - 5/21/2021
There is a growing need for skilled tech talent, and the demand for these individuals is outpacing the number of those earning technology and computer science degrees. The result—companies have a tech talent shortage and stalled or slowed workflow.
Continue ReadingTechnical.ly - 4/29/2021
Through Forward Delaware, part of the Rapid Workforce Training and Redeployment Initiative (aka the governor’s Executive Order 43), the State of Delaware invested $474,000 in Zip Code Wilmington alone.
Continue ReadingPhiladelphia CityBizList - 4/28/2021
With a professional background as a former U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander and intellectual property attorney, Desa Burton serves as the Executive Director of Zip Code Wilmington where she is responsible for executing the organization’s strategic and operational plans while carrying out its mission.
Continue Reading4/28/2021
All 38 Graduates Under EO43 Funding are Hired or Actively Interviewing with Delaware Area Businesses
As the Governor’s Executive Order 43, Rapid Workforce Training and Redeployment Initiative comes to a close, Zip Code Wilmington, a nationally recognized nonprofit software developer training program, is reporting its success in getting more Delaware area residents trained and hired during the economic recession.
Continue ReadingDelaware Business Now - 4/20/2021
Zip Code Wilmington is reporting success in getting more Delaware area residents trained and hired
Through Zip Code Wilmington’s participation in Delaware’s rapid training program EO43, referred to as Forward Delaware, the coding school trained 38 students with 35 hired into full-time positions with three graduates actively interviewing with local businesses.
Continue Reading3BL CSR Wire - 3/24/2021
As women face unprecedented job losses across a range of industries, an emerging crop of software platforms, tools, and interventions could reshape workplace norms.
Continue ReadingDelaware Public Media - 3/19/2021
A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, we are starting to see how some efforts to help people hit hard economically are faring.
One example is Forward Delaware, a broad training program to help people laid off during the pandemic pivot to a new career.
Continue ReadingHP Garage - 3/2/2021
Visual artist Ashley Cecil’s professional life was upended when schools closed. The 39-year-old mother of two, who earns less than her husband, says it was clear she’d be the one to scale back. Cecil dropped teaching engagements and began renting out her Pittsburgh studio. “When push came to shove,” she says, “there was just no question that I was going to be ... the default parent until we could figure out some solution.”
Continue ReadingTechnical.ly - 2/26/2021
How do you land a job in tech? Do you need a college degree? What does a software engineer actually do?
For Tech Career Paths Month at Technical.ly, we talked to five Delaware software engineers at different stages of their careers and asked them a handful of questions that amounted to: How did you get here?
Continue ReadingTechnical.ly - 2/25/2021
Zip Code Wilmington has a new offering for 2021: Refractor, a monthly podcast hosted by Chris Nobles, Dan Stabb and Kay Fennimore.
In its inaugural episode, launched on Jan. 28, Nobles, Stabb and Fennimore — all technologists with ties to the nonprofit coding bootcamp — talk about their journeys into tech and offer advice for aspiring technologists. You can check out the Refractor podcast on standard podcast streaming platforms.
Continue ReadingTechnical.ly - 2/15/2021
High-wage jobs that offer full benefits and long-term career trajectories are sitting unfilled in Delaware despite a high rate of unemployment, according to Michael J. Quaranta, president of the Delaware State Chamber of Commerce — and that’s “because of the mismatch between low skilled, underemployed, or currently unemployed people in our state and the jobs employers are dying to fill.”
Continue ReadingDelaware Business Times - 2/3/2021
The Delaware Restaurant Association (DRA) has launched a free 10-course training to anyone looking to upskill, retrain or start a career in the hospitality industry.
Continue ReadingDelaware Business Times - 1/29/2021
WILMINGTON – COVID-19 may have stopped “business as usual” dead in its tracks, but venture capitalists Ben DuPont and Porter Schutt urge the first Techpreneur Incubator cohort to take a calculated risk and build a business that could change the game for Delaware’s economy.
Continue ReadingTechnical.ly - 1/26/2021
When Technical.ly published the inaugural RealLIST Startups in 2017, 10 ten young and exciting local companies we listed included companies that are still going strong: DeliveryCircle (our first #1 RealLIST startup), WhyFly (#3) and Carvertise (#5). It also included a company that’s going strong under a different name, TheraV (which came in at #7 as Vibrating Therapeutic Apparel), and a few that have faded away — whatever happened to GoSend, SimUCare and Chronicle? Seriously, if you know, drop us a line.
Continue ReadingPR Newswire - 1/14/2021
Zip Code Wilmington, a nationally recognized nonprofit software developer training program in Wilmington, D.E., today announced a milestone in its strategic collaboration with JPMorgan Chase to help Delaware job seekers reskill into the technology field and secure full-time employment after completing the 12-week coding bootcamp.
Continue ReadingPhiladelphia CityBizList - 1/14/2021
Zip Code Wilmington, a nationally recognized nonprofit software developer training program in Wilmington, D.E., today announced a milestone in its strategic collaboration with JPMorgan Chaseto help Delaware job seekers reskill into the technology field and secure full-time employment after completing the 12-week coding bootcamp.
Continue ReadingDelaware Business Now - 1/14/2021
Zip Code Wilmington, announced a milestone in its collaboration with JPMorgan Chase.
The program helps Delaware job seekers move into the technology field and secure full-time employment after completing the 12-week coding “bootcamp.”
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Zip Code Wilmington announces a milestone in its strategic collaboration with JP Morgan Chase to help Delaware job seekers reskill into the technology field and secure full-time employment after completing the 12-week coding bootcamp.
Continue ReadingPhiladelphia Business Journal - 1/6/21
In other states, it might be tough for a new advisory board of local executives to score regular sit downs with state policymakers, let alone the governor themselves. Patrick Callahan is glad Delaware isn’t like other states.
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Continue ReadingLive Career - 8/20/2019
Whether you're trying to figure out what to do with your computer science degree or you're curious about switching careers, here's everything you need to know about becoming a software engineer.
Continue ReadingTechnical.ly - 8/19/2019
Teri Quinn Gray, Ph.D, is the newest member of Zip Code Wilmington’s board of directors — and the board’s first woman. She joins cofounders Jim Stewart of Epic Research, Ben DuPont of Chartline Capital Partners and Porter Schutt of Brown Advisory.
Continue ReadingNews Journal - 8/19/2019
Zip Code alumnus Chris Nobles shares his emotional journey of aging out of foster care with little direction for his future to his fulfilling role as a software engineer at one of the biggest Fortune 500 companies in the world.
Continue ReadingNews Journal - 8/14/2019
Op-ed with Maureen Padgett is Vice President of Technology for CSC's Corporate & Legal Solutions (CLS) business unit.
Continue ReadingDelaware Business Times - 8/14/2019
Zip Code Wilmington has announced the appointment of Teri Quinn Gray, Ph.D. as the first female board member since the coding bootcamp launched in 2015.
Continue ReadingNews Journal - 8/8/2019
Op-ed with JPMorgan Chase senior leaders, Jennifer McDermott and Gary Moyer.
Continue ReadingInquirer - 8/5/2019
JPMorgan chief executive Jamie Dimon paid a visit to Wilmington on Monday to visit the bank’s extensive corporate offices, glad-hand amongthe state’s 11,000-strong workforce in a town hall meeting, and take in a coding boot camp it funds called Zip Code Wilmington.
Continue ReadingNews Journal - 8/2/2019
Op-ed with Sharon Eppes, mother of 2019 Zip Code alumna.
Continue ReadingNews Journal - 7/25/2019
Op-ed with Jim Stewart, Ben duPont and Porter Schutt are the founders of the Zip Code Wilmington software coding school.
Continue ReadingVeterans News Report - 7/6/2019
Zip Code Wilmington, a nationally-recognized nonprofit coding school, is one of six training providers with technical training programs approved by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to receive tuition reimbursement under its new Veteran Employment Through Technology Education Courses (VET TEC) program.
Continue ReadingTechnical.ly - 6/20/2019
The U.S. government has a new education program for military veterans: Veteran Employment Through Technology Education Courses (VET TEC) helps eligible veterans enter the technology field by providing tuition for an approved technical training program, as well as housing assistance for the duration of schooling.
Delaware Prosperity Partnership - 6/18/2019
The rise of fintech–the use of technology and innovation to provide financial products and services–is transforming the financial services landscape and will be a key growth opportunity for the Delaware economy in the years to come.
Continue ReadingNews Journal - 5/16/2019
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Continue ReadingPR Web - 11/7/17
Year Up, a yearlong workforce development program for underserved young adults, is proud to announce its Wilmington site's partnership with Zip Code Wilmington, Delaware's first coding boot camp.
Continue ReadingWDEL - 10/13/2017
The two-year-old school is now at The Mill, which is on the fourth floor of the Nemours Building in downtown Wilmington.
The new space means more room to offer new classes in different technologies and more staff offices.
Continue ReadingInterdigital - 10/20/17
As a member of the Liberty USO Career Transitions Committee, Desa will lead a new initiative focused on STEM education for transitioning military service members and veterans.
Continue ReadingNews Journal - 10/13/2017
Zip Code Wilmington celebrated its move to a newly renovated space in The Mill. The new space will allow them to fill it with more students and more classes.
Continue ReadingDelaware Business Times - 10/11/2017
Participants in the computer-coding boot camp known as Zip Code Wilmington don’t quite work all day and all night for 12 weeks. The norm is more like 80 to 100 hours, says Melanie Augustin, head of the two-year-old school that recently moved into The Mill, a co-working space in the Nemours Building downtown.
Continue ReadingNews Journal - 8/13/2017
"There are a lot of platforms out there that businesses can use to send out text blasts to their customers," Textable co-founder Joe Roddy, 27, said. "Our app does that but it also works the other way by making it possible for customers to text in and get a response."
Continue ReadingBusiness Insider - 8/9/2017
Initially, Reynolds-Titko went the self-teaching route, taking free online courses, watching videos, and reading books. But she soon realized she needed more hands-on training.
Continue ReadingTechnical.ly - 5/26/2017
The coding school's top administrator talked about her first year on the job, new classes at Zip Code and a big move to The Mill.
Continue ReadingWall Street Journal - 2/26/2017
How coding boot camps, like Zip Code Wilmington, give people from all walks of life the skills to succeed in the jobs of the 21st century. Featuring Zip Code alum Heron Ziegel!
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