Lighthouse Labs

Lighthouse Labs
Type of business Coding Bootcamp
Founded 2013
No. of locations Canada Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary
Industry Education
Slogan(s) Canada's Premiere Development Bootcamp
Website www.lighthouselabs.ca

Lighthouse Labs is a Coding Bootcamp for web and mobile software development in multiple cities across Canada. The establishment organizes an annual free learn-to-code event, The HTML500, in partnership with TELUS.[1] More recently, the bootcamp became the first organization to offer a remote-hybrid web development program in Whitehorse through a partnership with the Government of Yukon.[2]

Locations

Vancouver

Opened in 2013, Lighthouse Labs' first immersive bootcamp facility is based out of Launch Academy, an incubator in the heart of the city's Gastown neighborhood.[3] Students learn front and back-end development through the bootcamp's Web and iOS programs.[4] The iOS program, launched in July 2014, is arguably Canada's first immersive iOS immersive program.[5]

Toronto

As part of a national partnership with HIGHLINE, a seed stage investment platform, Lighthouse Labs announced the launch of its Toronto operations during the The HTML500 in February 2015.[6] Located in HIGHLINE's office in downtown Toronto, the facility offers enrollment in any of the bootcamp's full-time or part-time programs. It joins existing Toronto-based bootcamps such as Bitmaker Labs, BrainStation and HackerYou as one of several developer bootcamps that offer in-person learning opportunities to individuals in the Greater Toronto Area.[7]

Calgary

In April 2015, Lighthouse Labs launched a 'pop-up' program in Calgary through its national partnership with HIGHLINE, a co-venture platform that helps early stage digital startups. Lighthouse Labs in Calgary currently offers students the opportunity to enroll in a 6-week part-time program focused primarily on learning the fundamentals of web development.[8][9]

Whitehorse

In partnership with the Government of Yukon, Lighthouse Labs launched the territory's first web development bootcamp via a remote-hybrid program.[10] Students remotely attend lectures from the bootcamp's Vancouver location and have access to on-site assistance through Mentors in the facility [2][11]

Scholarships

Simon Fraser University

The 'Lighthouse Labs Prize' is an annual scholarship open to students of Simon Fraser University's Faculty of Communication, Art & Technology. Worth over $7000, the scholarship awards one student a spot in the bootcamp's web-development program in Vancouver and is currently in its second year of institution.[12]

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