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I’m Nick Santiago. I’m a proud veteran — I served for ten years in the US Marines. But after I left the Marines, I wasn’t sure what to do. I knew I was interested in tech, and I tried to teach myself — I bought books, I watched YouTube videos, I learned enough to build a game — nothing fancy, but I was proud of it. I went back to school to start learning Computer Science, and that’s where I heard about Code the Dream.

Code the Dream (CTD) is proud to announce Daisy Magnus-Aryitey as the organization’s new Co-Executive Director. Most recently Code the Dream’s Director of Partnerships, Magnus-Aryitey will join Executive Director Dan Rearick in leading day-to-day operations and mapping the path for the fast-growing non-profit. Magnus-Aryitey is uniquely suited for the position, having been a student in […]

The six member-owners of Radiate Consulting™ North Carolina decided that their tech expertise combined with a collective-ownership model was their best route to business ownership and a rewarding career trajectory. After working for months, supported by Code the Dream and the Democracy at Work Institute (DAWI), they launched the new business at an event on […]

Selamawit Shibru joined Code the Dream as an intern in October, 2020. In September, she left after getting a job as a Front End Developer at Tata Consulting Group. What led to your career in software development?I started developing back home in Ethiopia, where my background is in civil engineering. I got the chance to […]

Code the Dream salutes programmers Andrea Hernandez Guzman and Mariandrea Maldonado, whose work with CTD Labs is helping to bring a reading instruction application for children with learning challenges to teachers and students across the country. Hernandez Guzman and Maldonado have been working on the interactive Hill Reading Achievement Program (HillRAP) for CTD Labs’ client […]

The member-owners of Radiate Consulting™ North Carolina, a new tech cooperative founded by six entrepreneurs with a wide range of expertise, will introduce themselves and their business at an online event on Thursday, September 2. Radiate Consulting™ is a worker-owned and run small business specializing in building high-quality websites and custom web applications that help […]

Code the Dream’s newest interns completed our 2019-2020 Ruby on Rails class. We’re excited to welcome them to the CTD community! Read more about them below! Cindy Mendes I was born and raised in France. In 2015, I moved to the states as an Au Pair. I started working with programming languages including Java, Python, […]

We believe that Black Lives Matter.  The killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police last month — along with the earlier murders of Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery — has highlighted the violence and systemic racism that Black people face on a daily basis in America. We are encouraged by the calls for justice that […]

At Code the Dream, we have a deep love of the community we’re building. It’s a community that is full of people with a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences who now come from all over the country. It celebrates immigrants and communities of color. It is a community that is changing the tech sector, […]

Mariandrea Maldonado Mariandrea was born and raised in Venezuela. In 2014, she started working with programming languages such as: Java, C++, and php while she was studying computer engineering in her home country. Her background embraces development of websites, web applications and development of games for Android. She loves playing piano, swimming, running, mathematics and […]

Recently at Code the Dream, we have been leaning in to doing more of our work online. In response to the spread of the COVID-19 virus, Code the Dream’s staff has moved to working fully remote until it is safe to return to the office. We are fortunate that we launched our national remote participation […]

Our Ruby on Rails students are back at work learning CSS and HTML in the second phase of their class, which focuses on web basics. We wrote about this class back in the fall – it’s our first remote-only class and has students from across the United States. I caught up with two of our students, […]

It was two days to launch day, and we had just decided on some last-minute improvements to the app. We had only recently finalized its name. Mariposa AR, as we decided to call it, was one of the most unique projects we had done yet, and the coming launch day brought waves of excitement and […]

I’ve never known a place quite like the Episcopal Farmworker Ministry. Since the 1980s they’ve served thousands of migrant farmworkers from their outpost in Dunn, North Carolina, tending to the needs of the invisible and poorly paid workforce on which our agricultural economy depends. In the summer of 2018, the Ministry went into high gear […]

Code the Dream is a nonprofit offering free programming classes and internships to underrepresented communities in the tech sector. A staff member writes about how working with immigrants has improved the quality and scope of the apps the organization builds. I am just beginning to get comfortable in the old, eighteen passenger van when Juan, […]

by Reid Russom When Narayan and the rest of the Code the Dream delegation walked into GSK’s Triangle headquarters to receive the 2019 IMPACT Award, the space looked familiar to him, but not for the reasons you might think. Looking across the cavernous wood-paneled auditorium and out into the lobby encased in towering glass windows, […]