By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Michael Jaime sold his car and bought a bike so he could pay his tuition and participate in CodeUp, a 12-week bootcamp that teaches non-programmers how to code. Each day Jaime would bike three miles to Geekdom at the Weston Centre in downtown San Antonio to learn […]
CodeHS Turns Kids Into Coders
May 21, 2014 by Leave a Comment
By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News In the first CodeHS program at Highlands High School this year, Ernest Rodriguez learned to program a computer and to do animation. “I saw the opportunity and I took advantage of it,” said Rodriguez, a freshman. Now he wants to be a computer programmer and work at […]
Codeup Bootcamp Aims to Turn Non-techies into Web Programmers
April 4, 2014 by 7 Comments
By ZACH REED Reporter with Silicon Hills News Nathaniel Medrano wrapped up a recent internship feeling that, while the experience gave him great exposure, the job’s DIY learning model-via telecommute no less-still had him looking for ingrained traction in the technology. His work setting up search engines for local directories at a telecommunications company had […]
Codeup Wins the 2014 San Antonio InnoTech Beta Summit
April 2, 2014 by Leave a Comment
By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Codeup, a 12-week boot camp to teach technical skills to people, won the 2014 InnoTech Beta Summit on Wednesday afternoon. Michael Girdley launched Codeup last year and the first class of 28 men and women is about to graduate. The startup, based at Geekdom, charges $9,850 per […]
Soloshot, BiblioTech, Cloud Academy and SMSGate at SA New Tech
April 2, 2014 by Leave a Comment
By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News On the first Tuesday of every month, a group of people interested in the latest technology developments in San Antonio gathers at Geekdom for the San Antonio New Tech meetup. The hour-long program showcases some of the latest startups in the city along with other interesting projects. […]
Seven San Antonio Startups to Pitch at the InnoTech Beta Summit
March 30, 2014 by Leave a Comment
By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Seven startups will pitch at the eighth annual InnoTech Beta Summit on Wednesday. The event, which takes place at 3 p.m. at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, will showcase some of the best and brightest new technology startups in San Antonio. Each team will have five […]
Lessons of a First Time CEO at SA New Tech
December 4, 2013 by 2 Comments
By ANDREW MOORE Reporter with Silicon Hills News At SA New Tech Tuesday, Pressable’s Founder Vid Luther shared tough lessons learned as a CEO. Originally named ZippyKid, Pressable, a WordPress hosting startup, got a new name following an eight hour meeting, scheduled to last 30 minutes, in June with Rackspace Hosting founder Dirk Elmendorf and […]
Codeup Seeks to Create New Developers in San Antonio
October 24, 2013 by 8 Comments
By ANDREW MOORE Reporter with Silicon Hills News “Learn to Program. Get a Job Offer. Guaranteed.” This is the not-so-humble sales pitch of Codeup – a for-profit code education startup founded by San Antonio entrepreneur and angel investor Michael Girdley. The startup offers a nine week programming boot camp located at Geekdom of San Antonio […]
