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| Type of business | Coding Bootcamp |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Founded | 2013 |
| No. of locations |  Vancouver, Victoria, Calgary, Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa |
| Industry | Education |
| URL | www |
Lighthouse Labs is a tech education company that offers 12-week boot camps for web development and data science, as well as part-time up-skilling courses, with locations across Canada. In previous years, they organized an annual free learn-to-code event, The HTML500, in partnership with Telus. [1]
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Opened in 2013, Lighthouse Labs' first immersive boot camp facility started out of Launch Academy, an incubator in the city's Gastown neighborhood, before moving to new premises in downtown Vancouver in 2018. [2] Students learn front and back-end development through the boot camp's web development full-time program and learn data science with a 12-week Data Science Bootcamp.
As part of a national partnership with Highline, a seed-stage investment platform, Lighthouse Labs announced the launch of its Toronto operations during The HTML500 in February 2015. [3] Located in Devhub in downtown Toronto, Lighthouse Labs is one of several developer boot camps that offer in-person learning opportunities to individuals in the Greater Toronto Area. [4]
Operating out of the Spaces Mile End, Lighthouse Labs Montreal currently offers a 12-week Data Science Bootcamp, 12-week Web Development Bootcamp, and three part-time courses in web development and data analytics.
Located in downtown Victoria at KWENCH, Lighthouse Labs partners with other organizations in the area such as Viatech and Ladies Learning Code. The Victoria location currently runs the web development boot camp and data science boot camp twice a year and three 6-week part-time web and data analytics programs.
In April 2015, Lighthouse Labs launched a 'pop-up' program in Calgary through its national partnership with Highline. Originally a 6-week part-time program, it has grown into a satellite campus offering full- and part-time courses in front- and back-end development. [5] [6]
Lighthouse Labs hosts their part-time courses at Bayview Yards and hosts a Bootcamp to become a developer in 12 weeks at Spaces Laurier.
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