By: Jessica Chavez, Career Services Coordinator at MakerSquare MakerSquare opened its doors in June of 2013 and will soon be celebrating the graduation of Cohort III on January 30,2014. Traditional MakerSquare students have previous work experience and education under their belt making them skilled problem-solvers, even before applying. Throughout the […]
Stu Smith had an interesting design career before creating Sputnik Creative, an independent studio in Austin that provides design, development, content strategy and brand management support for its clients. Stu started his career designing flyers for a church at the age of sixteen. “They bought me illustrator and pizza so […]
When Jessica Fuselier first joined our 10-week web development bootcamp, she came in wanting to be able to promote the arts by learning how to express and communicate their trade online. Having graduated from our first immersive bootcamp about four months ago, we met with Jessica to discuss how MakerSquare […]
Our student spotlight series follows two students through the Winter ’13 cohort. In this blog, Kelley Rytlewski documents her day at MakerSquare. Wednesday, December 18, 2013 8:32AM With the steps of the Capitol a few blocks ahead, the walk to MakerSquare HQ captures the most iconic view in Austin – […]
This is a guest post from MakerSquare Fellow Taylor Smith. You can follow him on Twitter here. Functions as Arguments We can pass variables and objects into Javascript functions as arguments. For example, given: Calling yelled(); here would return the string “BOB”, as shout(name) is passed to yell which calls […]
Thank you Austin, thank you all! When we first came to Austin to start MakerSquare, we were excited to dive into a growing tech scene with an entrepreneurial spirit. Austin is one of the fastest growing cities in the U.S. and we were happy to be in a position to […]
When Drew Montgomery first joined our 10-week web development bootcamp, he came in with the specific purpose of adding the skill of coding to his business skills. Having graduated two weeks ago from our bootcamp, we met with Drew to discuss how MakerSquare has influenced the next chapter of his […]
We’re extremely honored and excited to announce that Josh Baer has joined MakerSquare as an advisor! Josh Baer helps people quit their jobs and become entrepreneurs. In 2008 he founded Capital Factory, the largest startup incubator and co-working space in Austin, Texas. We’re looking forward to this relationship with Capital […]
After experiencing many different cities and professions, Taylor Donner has pinpointed how he wants to shape his future – he is going to make his mark in the startup and tech scene in New Orleans. We’re very excited he picked MakerSquare to jump start his web development career, and we […]
MakerSquare students aren’t just looking to start or change their careers. Some are CEOs looking to gain the technical skills necessary to streamline their business. We couldn’t be more excited to have Kara, an entrepreneur, yogi and lover of cheese join our inaugural cohort here in Austin. Learn more about […]
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