Le Wagon Lisbon: 2019 in review
As Le Wagon heads into its 4th year in Lisbon, we wanted to take a moment to pause and reflect on all that’s been accomplished and all there is to be grateful for from 2019.
Ranked №1 Coding Bootcamp
For the fourth year in a row, Le Wagon is the #1 ranked coding bootcamp worldwide on Switchup and Course Report!
Opened our new campus near Marques de Pombal
After surfing co-workings and startup incubators for 2+ years, we opened our own dedicated space in January and couldn’t have asked for a better home for our alumni community.
Started our first part-time web development bootcamp
Now you don’t have to quit your day job to do Le Wagon. Our web development course, initially developed as an immersive 9-week bootcamp, can now be followed part-time in 24 weeks, studying some weekday evenings and Saturdays. Our next part-time program starts April 18th 😉
Partnered with Puzzle to offer tuition financing
Through PUZZLE, BNI’s Europa Credit brand, Portuguese nationals can now receive financing on 90% of Le Wagon’s bootcamp tuition for both the part-time and full-time programs.
Launched Career Week in our full-stack bootcamp
Now, during the 10th week of the bootcamp, our students have a full lineup of workshops and talks with our career partners and team. From technical interview training, goal setting/ accountability sessions to speed dating with our hiring partners, students have a solid launching pad into their future.
Women outnumbered men in our Spring cohort, representing 61%
Despite coding bootcamps boasting a higher percentage of women than a traditional Computer Science degree (35% average of female representation in Le Wagon compared to 15% in CS degrees), enrollment in bootcamps is still predominantly male, so we were proud when we broke that pattern in the Spring with 11 out of 18 students being female. Unfortunately, we didn’t hit 50% again in our last three programs, so we have our work cut out for us in 2020. Stay tuned for more all-female coding workshop 👩🏻💻 👯
Received governmental certification as training providers in Portugal
Le Wagon is now DGERT certified in Portugal which means all graduates receive a diploma referenced to the national qualifications system and our tuition is 100% deductible as a training expense in individual income tax.
Lisbon alumni built and demo’ed 26 apps
Le Wagon is a product-driven bootcamp. During the course, our students learn how to build robust and beautiful web applications by themselves in teams, from the back-end all the way to the front-end. We are super proud of what our students achieved this year at their Demo Days.
Check out our Demo Days from 2019 on YouTube:
Out of those 26 apps, 2 startups were launched
We teach our students how to build great apps. This year, four of our Lisbon alumni have launched startups. Nuno and Pedro are setting out to democratize investment in professional football with Footinvest and Mark and Marisa launched Olive Gives which impressively showcased at Web Summit just 4 months after their bootcamp finished.
Lisbon’s teaching team went abroad to 10 campuses around the world
Our Lisbon-based teachers traveled to 10 of the 39 Le Wagon campuses this last year to lead teach. From Berlin to Bali to Tel Aviv, Lisbon was representin’.
Hosted 94 free events with more than 1900+ attendees
Keen on joining a free workshop in 2020? Join our Meetup group! 🤓
Practiced 64 hours of yoga 🧘♂️🧘♀️
Said goodbye to our earliest and longest-running lead teacher, André Costa.
It’s difficult to find the words to express our appreciation and admiration for André. We are lucky to have him as long as we did… while honing his teaching skills for the last three years, starting with Le Wagon’s first cohort in Lisbon, André was also moving his way up to CTO of his startup. We still don’t know how he found the time to take a week off every few months, but we feel privileged he did and cannot wait to see where his attitude, witts, and love for all things tech take him.
Welcomed 2 new alumni as leads teachers, Irina Popa and Mariana Marcelino
When one door closes, another door(s) opens. We are excited and proud to be working with Irina and Mariana in new capacities.
Le Wagon is so much more than a coding school. It’s about knowledge sharing, community, and transformation. And that’s only possible with the right people. We thank all our partners, teachers, staff (interns!) and students for making 2019 such a spectacular year! We cannot wait to see where the ’20s take us and the people that join us. We already have a taste of what 2020 is bringing and it’s exciting. Stay tuned.
Love,
Le Wagon Lisbon
