Blog: Featured Alum Post

Featured Alum Post
4 Ways the Grace Hopper Program Celebrates Community and Collaboration
If you’re making a career change, having a supportive community is crucial. Get to know the Grace Hopper alum community through this collection of videos.
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Featured Alum Post
How Community Helped One Alum Find Her Calling as a Software Developer
“I find that it’s great to have a community here.” Learn about the Grace Hopper Program’s focus on creating a supportive and inclusive space to learn fullstack JavaScript.
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Coding Bootcamp Student Projects
6 Paramount Projects From July Grads
One of our favorite days each semester is Demo Day, when the Grace Hopper cohorts present their capstone projects and show off what they’ve built. In the three weeks leading up to Demo Day, students work together in teams to deploy the skills they’ve learned so far. Check out 6 of their presentations here.
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Featured Alum Post
One Alum Shares the Soft Skills You Need to Land a Job at Etsy
Learn how the culture at the Grace Hopper Program set one alum up for success as a junior software engineer at Etsy.
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Featured Alum Post
How a Marketing Professional Used JavaScript to Transition into Tech
Etsy software engineer and Grace Hopper alumnae Wendy Sung on how she made a career transition from marketing to software development.
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Coding Bootcamp Student Projects
5 Fabulous Feminist Coding Bootcamp Projects
Want to know what kind of apps you'll actually build during coding bootcamp? Today, we're sharing 5 projects Grace Hopper grads built specifically to benefit women.
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Job & Career Advice
7 Developers Who Are Thriving in a Second Career in Coding
A second career in coding is a real possibility for almost anyone. Just ask these coders who have made the transition into the world of software development.
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Job & Career Advice
Bootcamp Grads Become the Most Well-Rounded Programmers
Liz Phillips started off in theater and production design and ended up at Grace Hopper feeling burned out and in dire need of a change. Follow along with her journey to find out how Grace Hopper restored her sanity and why she works to recruit other women alums to her company.
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Job & Career Advice
Step In to Your Power: How This Tech-Curious Lesbian Transformed Her Life at Fullstack
After a frugal youth, $100K+ in student loans, and 7 unfulfilling years in finance, Noelle found her place in tech & wants other LGBTQIA+ folks to do the same.
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Women in Tech
A Night of Noms and Networking for Grace Hopper Chicago
This summer, a group of students, fellows, and Grace Hopper Track staff from the Chicago campus attended a networking event co-hosted by Google and Lesbians Who Tech + Allies. Find out what we learned, what we loved, and what we ate!
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Job & Career Advice
Finding Support Within the Women’s Coding Community
Jamie Lau was drawn to Grace Hopper Program's goal of making tech education more accessible to women--and now she's a software engineer. See how she did it.
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Job & Career Advice
Making Women the Smartest Coders in the Room
Katy wants women to become the smartest coders in the room. How? Coding bootcamps like Grace Hopper Program. Read her story and see if her path is right for you.
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