Yeah, So I started out in the humanities. I studied at a small, private liberal arts college, which was a fantastic education. But then, in my twenties, I wasn't really sure what to do with that as a career in my life and fumbled around for a bit. And then in the late nineties, there was something called y two K. Everybody was concerned that computers with only having two digit ears would all break. And I was able to get a job and be involved on a project and really was just loved the work of that and, quite frankly, was shocked at how much software developers made because of that. So that was my entry point into the industry being a software developer for about the first decade or so. I really was a hands on developer, very technical, expanding what I did and then had an opportunity in about 6 4007 to move into ah leadership role. And I was the head of architectural at a company called Accelerates and really was someone who played a dynamic role who had the in depth technology experience but could also work with the business on business strategy. So my role was Thio Align Business Strategy and Technology Strategy and a Sfar a starting a training institute. It was a bit of serendipity. At one point I saw that Ah, local code school was needing instructors and I did that for about half a year. And really, it was surprised how much I got out of that helping other people Thio take advantage of the same things that I had gotten out of that career and I had opportunity than in 2016 Thio start my own school alchemy code lab and we're now our fear of operation.

Yeah, Welcoming currently has one program. That's our program and professional software development. It is a 23 week program. Unlike some other programs, it's not a work at your own pace program. So students are engaged in the training Monday through Friday 9 to 6, spending there, their day everyday coating. It's about a three hour, five hour split in terms of time spent with struck versus time spent in labs working solo or collaborate with peers. Uh, since that we used to be completely an in person program, but with the pandemic, we were able to pivot and moved to an all remote offering. It's still a very, um, in person. It's online, but a very synchronous experience. So the students are engaged with the instructor engaged with the T A s on and still do their lab works with other students. We still have the same kind of rigorous training requirements for them

maintaining our curriculum. One is that our instructors themselves way higher, pretty experienced industry professionals who like to stay engaged with the technology. Not just this particular technologies, but maybe even coding styles or the particular ways that a technology evolves over time. And it is kind of the best practice, as it were, is a moving target. We do also have an advisory committee where we've put together ah, mix of different companies. We've got engineering managers from big companies like Nike. We have creative agencies and smaller companies so that we get a diverse representation of opinions. We even have a couple agile experts who are well known in the industry who help us, uh, evaluate our material. And they give us feedback on what they feel is relevant not only in terms of the technical curriculum, but we also talk about other skills that they like developers to have on the job