Hungry Academy: JumpstartLab + LivingSocial

Posted December 21, 2011 by Jeff

A few months ago, my friend Chad Fowler, VP of Engineering at LivingSocial, asked “If you could design a program to turn 24 people into excellent developers, what would you do?”

Then I had a long flight, which consisted of furious notes, numbers, projections, schedules, brainstorms – and that would become Hungry Academy.

Our mission is to create a program that’s “better than college.” With five months, two instructors, and the support of an awesome company, we can do it. We’ll be learning full time in a mix of classroom-style tutorials, team projects, individual research/writing/presentation, and giving back to the community.

You can learn more about it on the Hungry Academy website, but don’t slouch – the applications are due in just three weeks! There are many more pieces to this project which will be revealed over the coming months.