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In our latest Alumni Spotlight, we're sharing Monica Weiss-Sharp's #NSSJourney from Animal Science to Data Engineering. 🐾🔍 Monica's story is a testament to the power of determination and continuous learning. She's now a Data Engineer, supporting a transition to the cloud and finding answers to new questions every day. Read More

Topics: Alumni, Analytics + Data Science

NSS Alumni Christian Haggerty shares his personal journey into web development freelancing with our Seekers group at NSS. Read More

Topics: Alumni, Learning, Technology Insights, Web Development

Learning to become a junior developer at NSS and starting your career after graduation can be both exciting and intimidating. Check out what these NSS web dev grads had to share with C64! Read More

Topics: Alumni, Learning, Web Development

NSS students come from a variety of backgrounds and have found that skills they learned in their previous careers are transferable, including from backgrounds such as…Zoo-keeping!? Read how Kirren Covey, Mikayla Swinkels, Melissa Fox, and Chris Meffley used their experiences in zoo-keeping and animal care to help build their careers in tech. Read More

Topics: Alumni, Student Stories, Web Development

The annual NTC Awards were last week and ICYMI, NSS Alumnae and friends were among the finalists and winner circles for 2023! Huge shout out to all the finalists and winners! Read More

Topics: Alumni, News, Community

Students from all different walks of life come to NSS to gain the skills they need to start a career in tech! Their reasons for choosing NSS are plentiful, as are their options for how to gain new tech skills. So when someone chooses NSS, we do not take their decision lightly! Check out the reasons our alumni had to say shortly after graduating about why they chose NSS. Read More

Topics: Alumni, Student Stories, Web Development, Software Engineering

In this episode of 10 Years | 2000 Journeys, we speak with Rob Kirkpatrick & B.J. Golden, 2 NSS alumni who were professional musicians and discovered the parallels between their music careers and their new careers in tech! Listen wherever you get your podcasts! Read More

Topics: Alumni, Student Stories, Analytics + Data Science, 10 Years | 2000 Journeys

From day one, Nashville Software School saw the need for more local tech talent as a way to create paths for individuals to access high-paying careers who are financially disadvantaged or are from under-represented groups in tech. In this episode, host Clark Buckner sits down with two NSS alumni who have made the most of the opportunities available through NSS. Read More

Topics: Alumni, Get Involved, 10 Years | 2000 Journeys, Web Development

We caught up with the Girls in Tech & Nike Global Hackathon winning team of all NSS Alumni to share their experience, their app SafeSpace., and what it takes to build a winning hackathon web application! Read More

Topics: Alumni, Web Development

We caught up with some of our alumni who have backgrounds in music and asked how their previous careers relate to their current roles as web developers! Read More

Topics: Alumni, Student Stories, Community, Web Development