Getting your first job as a designer has become a catch-22, where employers expect junior designers to have years of experience to be taken seriously as candidates.
These guys have launched a Product Design Super League, a design competition, where you can earn a paid internship, while building a portfolio of real projects with others.
My friend and I are quite passionate about teaching and noticed that Twitch has been used as a platform for social learning experiences. We thought that's pretty cool, so we're going to be offering a free class on the Fundamentals of Programming, where students are actually encouraged to "talk during class" (read: chat).
My friend is a Software Engineer at Facebook and former Adjunct Professor of CS at GSU. He's pretty good at this and 200 of his students have received job offers as engineers.
These guys have launched a Product Design Super League, a design competition, where you can earn a paid internship, while building a portfolio of real projects with others.