LaunchCode

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LaunchCode

Industry	Information Technology
Headquarters	St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Key people	Jeff Mazur (Current Executive Director) Jim McKelvey (Co-Founder & Director) Robin Carnahan (Director) Brendan Lind (Co-Founder and Founding Executive Director)
Website	www.launchcode.org

LaunchCode, headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, is a non-profit organization that helps people enter the technology field by providing free and accessible education, training, and paid apprenticeship placements. 

Its courses and programs include:

• LC101 is LaunchCode's part-time evening flagship course. In a classroom with mentoring from instructors, teaching fellows and local developers, students learn programming concepts in JavaScript before moving on to a skill track focused on either Java or C#.
• Women+ (formerly CoderGirl): Is LaunchCode's education program for everyone who identifies as female, students choose one of seven 24- or 45-week specialized skill tracks that lead to an apprenticeship job program.
• Immersive CodeCamp is a 14-week, full-time course taking a deep dive into in-demand technologies and skills.
• Liftoff is a career readiness and project course for pre-apprenticeship.
• Discovery is a free, self-paced online program developed to introduce people to computer programming and help them determine if they want to pursue a career in tech.

LaunchCode also offers apprenticeships: full-time, paid positions with partner companies. A LaunchCode apprenticeship is a full-time, paid position with one of LaunchCode’s hiring partners. During the apprenticeship, candidates work on a team of experienced developers and are paired with a mentor that invests in their growth. Candidates are carefully matched with hiring companies for compatibility in technical skills, soft skills, workplace fit, and drive.

In 2020, 60% of LaunchCode students identified as women or non-binary, 49% identified as people of color, 19% identified as LGBTQIA+, and 46% did not have a 4-year degree.

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• LaunchCode website