How We Teach Full-Stack Apprentices HTML and CSS
We’re well into the seventh season of our full-stack apprenticeship program. Philip shares why our approach to teaching HTML and CSS to our apprentices assumes nothing.
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Designer to Developer
Heather shares her not-so-straight path to becoming a developer and what happens when a designer turns developer.
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The Making of Sparkeats
Food is an important part of Sparkbox’s culture. We love a good meal mixed with lively conversation. Enter Sparkeats, a site created by the 2017 apprentices that provides reviews of the best eateries in the cities where Sparkboxers live, work, and travel.
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Building Websites and Empathy: My Experience As A Frontend Design Apprentice
Andrew’s insights as a Sparkbox frontend design apprentice emphasize the not-so-secret ingredient for creating empathy.
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The Making of Lamp Post
Tech meetups and events are plentiful in the Dayton area—and so are the sites that promote them. For their culminating project, our 2016 apprentices created a simple site to share all of the tech gatherings in Dayton, a kind of one-stop shop. It’s free, topical, collaborative and easily replicated. Meet Lamp Post.
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Field Guide for Apprenticeship Seekers
To prepare for web building is no simple journey. Let us help you find some trails that will lead you toward success—and avoid dying of dysentery.
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The Making of Apprentice.at
Apprenticeships are temporary training programs (usually three months to a year), focused on teaching the process of building quality, intentional code to solve problems. Our 2015 apprentices created apprentices.at to help other people connect with opportunities.
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Things I Should Have Learned in College
College can be a great time of learning, but not always the things you need to know. Kasey shares how you can learn the skills that will aid you in the real world.
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Unhappy Yuppies, Dirty Jobs, and Web Workers
In an internet sea of crap and kittens, a couple nuggets of truth have floated to the surface recently for young people entering the work force.
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Confessions of a Sparkbox Apprentice
What it’s really like to be a Sparkbox apprentice—minus the nerf guns.
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Vice President of Business Development