Lighthouse Labs

Lighthouse Labs
Type of business Coding Bootcamp
Founded 2013
No. of locations Canada Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary, Montreal, Victoria, Halifax, Ottawa
Industry Education
Website www.lighthouselabs.ca

Lighthouse Labs is a coding bootcamp for web and mobile software development in multiple cities across Canada. The establishment organizes an annual free learn-to-code event, The HTML500, in partnership with Telus.[1] More recently, the bootcamp became the first organization to offer a remote-hybrid web development program in Whitehorse through a partnership with the Government of Yukon.[2]

Locations

Vancouver

Opened in 2013, Lighthouse Labs' first immersive bootcamp facility is based out of Launch Academy, an incubator in the heart of the city's Gastown neighborhood.[3] Students learn front and back-end development through the bootcamp's Web and iOS programs.[4] The iOS program, launched in July 2014, is arguably Canada's first immersive iOS immersive program.[5]

Toronto

As part of a national partnership with Highline, a seed stage investment platform, Lighthouse Labs announced the launch of its Toronto operations during The HTML500 in February 2015.[6] Located in Highline's office in downtown Toronto, the facility offers enrollment in any of the bootcamp's full-time or part-time programs. It joins existing Toronto-based bootcamps such as Bitmaker Labs, BrainStation, HackerYou, and Red Academy as one of several developer bootcamps that offer in-person learning opportunities to individuals in the Greater Toronto Area.[7]

Calgary

In April 2015, Lighthouse Labs launched a 'pop-up' program in Calgary through its national partnership with Highline, a co-venture platform that helps early stage digital startups. Lighthouse Labs in Calgary currently offers students the opportunity to enroll in a 6-week part-time program focused primarily on learning the fundamentals of web development.[8][9]

Whitehorse

In partnership with the Government of Yukon, Lighthouse Labs launched the territory's first web development bootcamp via a remote-hybrid program.[10] Students remotely attend lectures from the bootcamp's Vancouver location and have access to on-site assistance through Mentors in the facility [2][11]

Scholarships

Simon Fraser University

The 'Lighthouse Labs Prize' is an annual scholarship open to students of Simon Fraser University's Faculty of Communication, Art & Technology. Worth over $7000, the scholarship awards one student a spot in the bootcamp's web-development program in Vancouver and is currently in its second year of institution.[12]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "The HTML500 Bootcamp Teaches Free Coding To Promote Digital Literacy". huffingtonpost.ca. 25 Jan 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Coding boot camp trains future Yukon web developers". gov.yk.ca/. 27 May 2015.
  3. ↑ Joseph Czikk (3 September 2013). "New Vancouver-Based Coding Academy to launch this fall". betakit.com.
  4. ↑ "A new coding bootcamp is filling the talent gap in Vancouver". Retrieved 2015-06-11.
  5. ↑ "Vancouver's Lighthouse Labs Launches Canada's First iOS Bootcamp Course". Retrieved 2015-06-11.
  6. ↑ "Toronto's Newest Tech Bootcamp Will Change Your Career Forever". Archived from the original on 2015-05-16. Retrieved 2015-06-11.
  7. ↑ "Learn to Code in 2015: A List of Toronto's In-Person Learning Opportunities". Retrieved 2015-06-11.
  8. ↑ "National Partnership with Highline". Retrieved 2015-06-10.
  9. ↑ "Lighthouse Labs Calgary". Retrieved 2015-06-10.
  10. ↑ "Yukoners brave intense eight-week 'coding camp'". cbc.ca. 25 Feb 2015.
  11. ↑ "'Hybrid' coding boot camp aims to bring tech sector to rural Canada". www.biv.com. 4 May 2015.
  12. ↑ "Apply Today to Earn a Spot in Lighthouse Labs Web Development Bootcamp". 2015-06-10.
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