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After college, Amber Sharpe worked a variety of jobs including managing area Airbnbs and as a barista. She loved the variety of jobs she had, but was ready for a career. Her husband and several of their friends are NSS graduates, and they encouraged her to give development a try. Amber joined Cohort 24, our first front-end web designer/developer cohort. Read More

On Tuesday night our first data science cohort celebrated their graduation with Demo Day! Community involvement throughout our first cohort was key to our success. Whether you were a guest speaker, a mentor, a roundtable participant, or provided data and a data question, we could not have done this without your support. Read More

David Dassau graduated college in 2014 with a degree in web design. The degree helped get him started in web and graphic design, but it didn’t really prepare him for a career in either field. He spent his free time learning more about both fields and found that he really enjoyed web development. While he was thinking about ways to add web development to his skill set, his friend, a developer at a local company that hires Nashville Software School graduates, encouraged him to look into NSS. Read More

Adam Smith was drawn to software development because he loves to learn. And being a developer requires you to learn something new all the time. Hear about Adam's journey as a part of Evening Cohort 6. Read More

Going through a Nashville Software School bootcamp takes perseverance. That perseverance often starts when a student applies to a program. When Arthur Rankin Smith was accepted into Cohort 24, our first front-end web designer/developer cohort, he made the most of the experience and landed a job before graduation. Read More