Base Camp Coding Academy

Getting Mississippi kids in coding careers

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A reminder that Base Camp Coding Academy is hosting the Pioneer Programmers Coding Camp for rising junior and senior high school women. See the flyer below!

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On Tuesday, students from BCCA traveled to GRIT restaurant in Taylor, MS to sharpen their professionalism skills through learning table etiquette. Thank you to Misty Shaw-Feder and her husband Ron for giving students these valuable skills!

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Last Friday we welcomed back Logan Coley, a previous BCCA graduate now working at Cspire on their automation team. He presented about his day to day at Cspire, as well as giving students insight into the future of automation.

Thank you Logan for your time and expertise!

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Recently, a small team of BCCA students went to Oxford High School to recruit students for the Class of 2024. Thank you @OSD_OHS for welcoming us to present this opportunity to your students.

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Last Friday BCCA wrapped up our JavaScript unit with students' unit projects showcasing what they've learned throughout the last 5 weeks. #coding

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This Wednesday we started work on our BCCA Christmas Float for the Water Valley Christmas parade. Stay tuned to see the finished work!

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As a reminder, the admissions for BCCA class of 2024 are now open through February 28th, 2023! Navigate to our website for all related forms to turn in for your application. We look forward to hearing from all nominators and potential students!

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We invite everyone to head over to our website to take a look at our 2023 students' professional portfolios that they built! They feature information about the student and showcase some of their work they've done here at BCCA.

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Happy Halloween from BCCA!

Which pumpkin design do you like the best?

Comment below!

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We thank you for your time and the insight!

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Recently, BCCA welcomed Dunlap & Kyle to hear about their advancements in IT within the tire industry. They have made it their mission to push the industry away from pen and paper and into modern standards of IT such as electronic data storage and electronic proof of delivery.

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Last Friday, students wrapped up Unit 4 with the presentation of unit projects and completing all related module work. Please join us in congratulating them!

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Today's student spotlight is River Stults!

River's project for the python unit was a Television simulator that had features like channels and a remote. River’s also in charge of catering meals with procurement team and helps manage the stock of items around BCCA.

Thanks River!

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The Django language is commonly used to combine python languages, as well as HTML & CSS languages. Students will learn about this language for 10 weeks. Keep an eye out for the two Unit Projects that will stem from this language.

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Corey Mize, with Base Camp Coding Academy, met with Mrs. Walker’s Engineering I & II students to discuss opportunities available at the academy. 

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Last Friday, BCCA welcomed Clay McLeod (Director of product engineering at St. Jude Children's Hospital in Memphis) to talk about tech opportunities in the healthcare world and to discuss how the skills students' are learning can be applied across many different fields.

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This past week, students had the honor of listening to presentations by recent speakers from Nerdery, Laura Spieker, and Netflix Animations, Tannaz Sassooni & Nicholas Cofrancesco.
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Last Friday, students had their quarterly evaluations with members from the board to gauge their progress on their coursework as well as reviewing their peer feedback. Students will continue to have these throughout their time at basecamp to keep track of their progress.

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For our community event last Friday we spent time breaking away from coding to watch movies in the classroom. What is your favorite movie🎬?