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Our Purpose
We help young professionals accelerate their careers. Our year-long, college alternative provides young adults from underrepresented backgrounds with the skills, mindsets, and networks necessary to launch a rewarding, purpose-driven career in the tech sector.
Program Overview
The Marcy Lab School Software Engineering Fellowship is a 12-month post-secondary program designed to prepare high-achieving young adults from diverse backgrounds for full-time careers in software engineering.
The first half of the full-stack web development curriculum focuses on programming fundamentals in JavaScript, data structures, and algorithms in Python. During the second half of the program, students learn to build scalable, full-stack web applications using technologies such as Node.js, PostgreSQL, React, TypeScript, and Docker.
The last three months of the Fellowship are spent one of two ways: a software engineering apprenticeship, where students are able to apply their learning as a member of an engineering team at one of our partner companies, or a capstone research project in an advanced topic of study.
<aside> 💡 You can find details about our curriculum here, read about our program outcomes in this year's Annual Report, and hear from partners like Samsung and Asana about the value of our partnership. You can also see some of our Fellows in action here!
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Our program is designed to serve recent high school graduates (ages 18-24). We aim to create program cohorts that are 100% people of color with additional emphasis on gender parity. Our first two cohorts were more than 50% women and 92% Black and/or Latinx. 100% of our Fellows come from low-income backgrounds, as evidenced by Free/Reduced-price Lunch and/or Pell Grant eligibility. Many are first-generation citizens. We expect to maintain a similar demographic profile with the cohorts we recruit each year, with a special focus on recruiting students from neighborhoods hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic.
You can hear directly from a few of our Fellows about their backgrounds!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wttzqNaQNjQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bZCXulqVo8
We work with our partners to develop bespoke apprenticeship programs for our Fellows as pathways to full-time employment at partner companies. In this model, we provide the apprentice with ongoing coaching, support, and mentorship from our team and provide input on an appropriate scope of work for a 16-24 week apprenticeship. It is always our goal that Fellows who meet performance expectations during the apprenticeship period will be asked to remain on in a full-time capacity upon its completion.
Over 90% of Fellows to date that have been placed in software engineering apprenticeships have been asked to stay on full-time at the end of their programs.
What you commit to The Marcy Lab School: