timothy1ee

Interesting, we'll definitely check them out!

We would love to cover additional topics. I did my master's degree in robotics and worked in that field for a number of years. The reason that we're starting with iOS and Android is that the job market is the strongest in those areas, so it's easy to start there to prove that we can fund a tuition-free school via industry. Long term, we would love to expand to areas outside of engineering as well.

Good point, we're just proving a sustainable revenue model first, but plan on expanding to the south bay, as well as other cities.

The idea is that it will ultimately be supported by recruiting budgets. A current model that already exists is the contingency recruitment model which is between 15-30% the first year's compensation. In that model, if one student gets placed, it pays for the entire class.

Future models might be sponsorship, like a mini-conference. Some of our favorite classes in school had companies bring projects to the class and groups got to choose which project to work on.