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Last week, a group of 40 NSS students, instructors and recent graduates participated in the IBM Watson Workshop, held at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center. The workshop presented 100 and 200 level sessions to teach and practice different ways to utilize Watson’s API tools. The 200 level class was a hands-on developer lab designed for NSS students to build and complete an application using the tools in the API by the end of the session. Read More

This year, Nashville Software School is once again proudly sponsoring Craft Content Nashville. The event is presented annually as an “unconference” for creative writers, podcasters, publishers and others who enjoy and work with content. Read More

We are pleased to announce another new team member at Nashville Software School. Laura Buchanan has joined NSS as Director of Operations. Laura has spent most of her 15 year career working with non-profit community organizations such as NSS. Read More

We're excited to announce that Kristin McKinney, co-founder of the Nashville Girl Geek Dinner, has joined our team and will lead our efforts to partner with local employers. Kristin's role will be to grow the number of employers hiring NSS graduates, increase the number of Employer Partners, and strengthen the relationships with current partner companies. Read More

Former technology recruiter Jessica Brawner joins the Nashville Software School team as the school's first Career Development Specialist. Jessica's primary roles at NSS will be to help current students plan their careers, and to provide personalized support for their job search once they graduate. Read More

Nashville Software School’s mission is to expand the technology workforce in middle Tennessee by providing motivated individuals with access to a career in software development through training, mentorship and apprenticeship. As the only registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit coding camp in the Southeast, Nashville Software School has delivered on its promise to create a pipeline of software engineering talent into a tech community that greatly needs it. Read More

We love what we do — helping people build their skills for a career in technology. And we’re glad to do it in a city with a rapidly-growing technology market that, according to The Tennessean, is the 12th-best for STEM workers. Read the articles from The Tennessean and Washington Post that mention NSS. Read More

Beginning in January, we will offer an iOS Development class as the first installment in the new Professional Development Series aimed at those who are already working as software developers. iOS development is a great first class to kick off our series – almost all developers need to learn to build and deploy mobile apps and with Jamin Guy and Van Simmons we have the opportunity to work with two of the most knowledgeable and experienced developers on the Apple platform anywhere, not just in Nashville. Read More

We are excited to announce the launch of the first session of our Evening Developer Bootcamp. Some of you have been waiting for this for a long time. There has always been demand from the community here to provide a way for people that can’t quit their day jobs to have access to the training required to switch careers and become a web developer. Now there is a part-time, evening pathway to that career change. Read More