BELLEVUE, Wash., Dec. 09, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Starting this month, New Tech Eastside will be moving from Kirkland to newly-expanded Coding Dojo campus location in downtown Bellevue. The first event at the coding bootcamp will be held on Tuesday, December 15 from 5:30 – 7:45 pm.
In 2014, New Tech Seattle, the fastest growing Meetup in Seattle’s history and meetup.com history, expanded to Seattle’s Eastside. It now holds the largest ongoing monthly events in the area with hundreds of attendees, and includes an opportunity for locals across the eastside to connect with like-minded people, organizations and resources in the tech industry.
The first New Tech Eastside event held at Coding Dojo will feature the following agenda, which includes several companies doing great things with technology, and Storm Troopers to celebrate the release of The Force Awakens:
5:30pm – Doors Open/Buffet/Drinks/Get to know your community
6:30pm – Event Begins
– Community Announcements
– Presentation #1: Laud Social presented by Tom Kirby
– Presentation #2: Guided Fitness presented by Dan Li
– Presentation #3: Ignite WA presented by Chai Dutt
– Presentation #4: Verizon Innovation presented by Terry Dell
“We’re excited to welcome New Tech Eastside to our space and be a partner with an organization that tirelessly works to foster support and relationships in the local tech community,” said Richard Wang, CEO of Coding Dojo. “There’s a wave of tech talent and start-ups on Seattle’s eastside, and it’s our pleasure to play a role in creating opportunity.”
“Coding Dojo will be a great partner for New Tech Eastside. Being in a space full of students in a coding program in downtown Bellevue is a perfect fit for our community,” shared Brett Greene, CEO of New Tech Northwest. “Our organizations are aligned with a give first philosophy and a deep commitment to the next generation of Washington’s technology talent.”
To RSVP for the next New Tech Eastside meetup, visit https://www.newtechnorthwest.com/new-tech-eastside-december-15-2015/.
About New Tech Eastside
Founded in 2013 by Brett Greene and Red Russak, New Tech Seattle quickly became the fastest growing Meetup event in Seattle's history and meetup.com history. Given that success, Brett expanded in 2014 to Seattle's Eastside and added New Tech Tacoma in 2015. All of these events are now a part of New Tech Northwest along with an affiliate event, New Tech PDX, in Portland. They are the largest monthly events in the Northwest with over 600 monthly attendees and over 18,000 active members.
About Coding Dojo
Coding Dojo is an immersive learning environment that helps individuals from a variety of backgrounds and skill levels transform into professionally trained junior to mid-level developers in as few as 14 weeks. Coding Dojo's intensive three-stack curriculum teaches the most important elements of computer science and web development in a collaborative setting, tackling real-life team projects and other exercises to master key concepts. Our advanced technical and professional development curriculum produces graduates – from all walks of life - who are prepared to make valuable contributions in the world. Learn more by visiting www.codingdojo.com.