markdavis33

The Financial Times did an interesting story about this recently: https://www.ft.com/content/36942668-8ca0-11e6-8cb7-e7ada1d12...

I run product at Fullstack Academy (parent school of Grace Hopper, www.gracehopper.com) and can say that the students who come through GH are some of the most talented and motivated students we see.

The all-female environment is special. It's a "safe" and nurturing environment, as the students work together through a <very> rigorous program.

And the hiring outcomes (180 days+ after graduation) are positive:

https://cloud.fullstackacademy.com/immersive-hiring-outcomes...

It's for both. Anyone who graduated from Fullstack or Grace Hopper Academy (our tuition-deferred, all-female school) can apply.

Each startup has to have at least one Fullstack/Grace Hopper grad on their founding team.

We're also opening it up to alumni from Starter League in Chicago (which we acquired earlier this year) and our YC partner school, the Recurse Center.

That's a cool idea.

We're big on transparency...e.g. soon we'll be publishing aggregate data about the outcomes for our students. We could apply the same approach to the startups that we fund.

Thanks for a great suggestion...we'll do that!

Hey Hacker News! I'm Mark Davis...the product hacker at Fullstack Academy, and the guy behind Fullstack Fund.

We're really psyched to start investing in our graduates, so they can create their own startups and make a dent in the universe.

AMA!

"Smart people should build things"

Hey emeth...thanks for making this awesome project. As a father of 2 sons (aged 9 and 11, both Minecraft fanatics) this is a perfect platform to get them interested in coding. Starting with Python is a nice easy on-ramp for them, and they'll even start using GitHub with this project, which is great too. Keep up the cool work :)