In late August of 2015, Batch Academy spun out of Hack Reactor's Austin campus to offer part-time coding classes for working professionals in Central Texas. My co-founder Omar and I came together in an effort to fill this gap in the continuing education space with our passion for teaching and mentoring professionals looking to find the next step in their careers. Many months later, we've ran over 30 community workshops, supported various Austin-based social good organizations and graduated our first class of students. It is with sincere gratitude that we thank the Austin tech community for their welcoming support, the team at Reactor Core in San Francisco and namely our immediate advising team consisting of Harsh Patel, Brian Dainton, Shawn Drost and Ruan Pethiyagoda. Batch Academy wouldn't have been a success without the support of these folks.
Batch Academy's graduation photo
Omar and I will be joining the national team at Hack Reactor to assist with the growth of the Hack Reactor product line across new and existing campuses. Hack Reactor's passionate team is dedicated to changing the paradigm of education for the 21st century and we're so thrilled to bring our energy and time to such an amazing mission.
If you're looking to join a program similar to Batch Academy, Hack Reactor's Prep class is a perfect fit for you. In Austin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York City you can join HR Prep to learn HTML, CSS & JavaScript, the technologies used to build websites from scratch.
Learn more about HR Prep here.
– Tyler Lambe, Co-founder & Lead Instructor
About Hack Reactor
Hack Reactor is a 3 month full-time career accelerator for software engineering. By teaching computer science fundamentals and modern web technologies like JavaScript, Hack Reactor prepares students to join the most desirable of engineering teams. Graduates of Hack Reactor have landed mid-level positions at world-class enterprise companies like Apple, Amazon, Paypal and IBM, as well as crucial roles at startups, both where they use the skills they learned to work in production environments. Reactor Core, Hack Reactor's parent company, and its collection of technology schools educate more software engineers every year than Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley and the California Institute of Technology, combined.