[LRUG] [JOBS] Teach at Makers Academy (+ our graduation ceremony)

Mark Weston mark at markweston.me.uk
Mon Dec 23 03:22:46 PST 2013


There's always one isn't there?  And this time it's me :(


On 23 December 2013 11:18, Mark Weston <mark at markweston.me.uk> wrote:

> Hi Evgeny,
>
> I saw this email and I've been following the story of Makers Academy.  The
> TA role sounds like an interesting challenge and I'd like to find out more
> about it, and about what you're looking for.
>
> I've been working (commercially) with Ruby-on-Rails for a couple of years,
> currently working for a web startup in the Travel business.  I spend a lot
> of my time advocating for TDD and readable code, and trying to improve my
> skills in those areas.  I think I'm a clear and articulate communicator,
> and I've had plenty of previous experience (previous to my life as a Ruby
> dev) of communicating/teaching in the technical support and internal user
> training roles.
>
> Could we chat first (phone/skype/IM/whatever) or would you like to see a
> CV first?  Please let me know.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Mark Weston
>
>
> On 19 December 2013 19:05, Evgeny Shadchnev <evgeny.shadchnev at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Makers Academy <http://www.makersacademy.com/> is an intensive, 12 week,
>> full-time course in web development.
>>
>> I'm looking for* two teaching assistants* to help the teachers:
>> - 1-2 years of Ruby and RoR experience, including TDD
>> - Passion for clean, eloquent code
>> - Great interpersonal skills
>>
>> We teach complete beginners how to code and place them into junior web
>> developmer jobs. Our grads have been hired as full-time developers by New
>> Bamboo, Funding Circle, BSkyB, Enternships, Global Personals, and other
>> companies. They built Seederboard <https://www.seederboard.com/> and
>> Bean&Ground <https://www.beanandground.co.uk/>.
>>
>> Here's what our grads say:
>> - "One month after graduating I accepted a great offer from an awesome
>> London Tech Company<http://blog.makersacademy.com/from-west-end-theatre-to-coding-everyday/>
>> "
>> - "It is scary but do it sooner rather then later!<http://blog.makersacademy.com/from-travel-agent-to-developer-at-bskyb/>
>> "
>> - "If you work hard and take the plunge and show dedication it will work!<http://blog.makersacademy.com/from-sales-marketing-to-web-development/>
>> "
>>
>> Our hiring partners say that they are "consistently blown away by the
>> calibre [we]’re producing<http://blog.makersacademy.com/what-a-hiring-partner-think-about-makers-academy/>
>> ".
>>
>> We change people's lives for the better. We have more students applying
>> to MA than we can teach, so we need more teachers to help our team of eight.
>>
>> You'll be either pairing with our students on our curriculum<http://www.makersacademy.com/info/curriculum>,
>> helping them to become developers or writing code for our online learning
>> platform Atlas <http://blog.makersacademy.com/atlas-is-live/>. We pay a
>> market salary + stock options, don't track days off and welcome internal
>> transparency (email me if you want details). We're backed by top investors,
>> profitable and growing.
>>
>> If you would like to see how far a beginner can get in only 12 weeks,
>> please come to the *graduation ceremony* of the September cohort tomorrow
>> at 1530<http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/xmas-graduation-tickets-9280587487>.
>> The students will be presenting their final projects that they've built in
>> the last 2 weeks of the course. One of them involves controlling fireworks
>> using Raspberry Pi and websockets – the demo will be awesome :) The link
>> is: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/xmas-graduation-tickets-9280587487
>>
>> Thank you, lrug :)
>>
>> Evgeny
>> Co-founder, Makers Academy
>>
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