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When Adam Enbar and Avi Flombaum founded Flatiron School<\/a> in 2012, one of their main goals was to make education affordable.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew that to be really be impactful, we had to make it more accessible,\u201d said Enbar. \u201cEducation shouldn\u2019t just be for those who can afford it.”<\/p>\n

They worked hard to ensure that women\u2014often underrepresented at coding schools\u2014were at least half of the student body. The reached out to city governments to improve access to low-income students. And they partnered with organizations like Re:Coded<\/a> to bring computer skills to refugees.<\/p>\n

Flatiron School\u2014with campuses in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Houston, Atlanta, Seattle, London, and Washington, D.C.\u2014has already helped thousands of students achieve their goal of becoming software engineers by awarding more than $10 million in scholarships in the last six years.<\/p>\n

A part of WeWork<\/a>, Flatiron School currently has several open scholarships for prospective students.<\/p>\n

Excella Technology Scholarship<\/h2>\n

Driving innovation and diversity in tech starts with education. Excella, an agile technology firm founded in 2002, partnered with Flatiron School to create the Excella Technology Scholarship<\/a>. It\u2019s a full scholarship to Flatiron\u2019s Immersive Software Engineering Bootcamp at the Washington, D.C. campus.<\/p>\n

The scholarship is geared toward women and underrepresented minority students who want to take an in-person course. Prospective students will need to be able to attend the bootcamp in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

Application deadline: Sept. 25.<\/p>\n

Flatiron Opportunity Scholarship<\/h2>\n

Flatiron School and Opportunity Hub<\/a> have partnered to offer more than $1 million scholarships to eligible students. The Flatiron Opportunity scholarship can be applied to all in-person and online career-change bootcamps. Flatiron School launched the scholarship in Atlanta and will award two full scholarship and five partial scholarships to selected students.<\/p>\n

The scholarship is designed to help people of color from underserved communities who want to start their careers as software engineers or data scientists. The Flatiron Opportunity Scholarship can be applied to the Immersive Software Engineering Bootcamp, Immersive Data Science Bootcamp, and the Online Software Engineering Bootcamp, and the Online Data Science Bootcamp.<\/p>\n

Application deadline: Sept. 30 for partial scholarships in Atlanta.<\/p>\n

Out in Tech Scholarship<\/h2>\n

Flatiron School and Out in Tech have partnered to offer four scholarship opportunities for students who can attend Flatiron\u2019s in-person Immersive Software Engineering bootcamp in London. The Out in Tech Scholarship<\/a> will award one full scholarship and three partial scholarships to selected students.<\/p>\n

The scholarships are offered to LGBTQ students who want to become software engineers. Students must be able to attend the in-person Immersive Software Engineering bootcamp at Flatiron\u2019s campus in London.<\/p>\n

Application deadline: Sept. 25<\/p>\n

Women Take Tech Scholarship<\/h2>\n

The Women Take Tech<\/a> initiative, in partnership with Citi, is a $2,000 scholarship to all of Flatiron School\u2019s career programs. This includes the in-person Software Engineering Immersive and Data Science Immersive courses along with all online career-change bootcamps.<\/p>\n

Women who are committed to changing their career and starting a new career in tech are encouraged to apply. Even if you\u2019re unable to attend an in-person class, the Online Software Engineering Bootcamp lets you train to become a software engineer at a pace and schedule that works for you.<\/p>\n

Application deadline: Nov. 7.<\/p>\n

Career Growth Scholarship<\/h2>\n

Flatiron School\u2019s Career Growth Scholarship<\/a> is open to all students across all in-person and online software engineering bootcamp courses. Every student who demonstrated progress on Learn.co, Flatiron\u2019s proprietary learning platform, are eligible for the $1,000 scholarship. Scholarships are awarded at the discretion of Flatiron School\u2019s enrollments team.<\/p>\n

This scholarship is perfect for any student looking to start their career in coding. Students who have progressed through one of Flatiron\u2019s free courses will be among the first considered for the scholarship.<\/p>\n

Application deadline: ongoing.<\/p>\n

Houston Heroes Scholarship<\/h2>\n

Flatiron School wants to provide the hundreds of thousands of veterans transitioning into the civilian workforce every year with the skills they need to become software engineers. Flatiron School offers a $5,000 scholarship<\/a> to all veterans who are admitted into the Immersive Software Engineering bootcamp at the Houston campus.<\/p>\n

The scholarship is for veterans who want a career in tech. Eligible veterans must be able to attend Flatiron\u2019s Immersive Software Engineering bootcamp in Houston.<\/p>\n

Application deadline: ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1820,"featured_media":3000000069,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"news_tag":[43923,43929],"class_list":["post-3000000066","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nFlatiron School scholarships open access to tech education - WeWork Newsroom<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/ideas\/newsroom-landing-page\/flatiron-school-scholarships-open-access-to-tech-education\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Flatiron School scholarships open access to tech education\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Programs target people often underrepresented in technology fields\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/ideas\/newsroom-landing-page\/flatiron-school-scholarships-open-access-to-tech-education\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Newsroom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-12-12T15:17:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/ideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/09\/Flatiron-School-HERO-1.jpg?fit=2048%2C631\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2048\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"631\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/ideas\/newsroom-landing-page\/flatiron-school-scholarships-open-access-to-tech-education\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/ideas\/newsroom-landing-page\/flatiron-school-scholarships-open-access-to-tech-education\",\"name\":\"Flatiron School scholarships open access to tech education - 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