pcs-project.html

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layout: "inner-with-sidebar"
title: "Portland Code School"
description: "A code school dedicated to teaching passionate, smart, creative people the skills they need to be competent, well-rounded programmers, able to excel in a web development career."
date: "2012 - 2013"
tags:
  - Tech
  - Community
project_links:
  - {title: "Folding Puzzle 1", url: "img/folding_puzzle_front_kale&badge.pdf"}
  - {title: "Folding Puzzle 2", url: "img/pcs_folding_puzzle_harder.pdf"}
---

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  <img src="/img/orange_badge.png">
  I became co-founder and former director of the Portland Code School, because I believe Portland is an oasis for tech companies and one of the best places to work in the world.
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  The Portland Code School was designed to be an oasis for learning web development where smart, passionate coders could excel.
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  <img src="/img/rose-pcs.jpg">
  In addition to building a small business, I focused on marketing and building partnerships with Portland tech companies to help new graduates with job hunting.
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<h4>Check out the folding puzzle. It's a fun puzzle with a purpose.</h4>
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    <a href="img/folding_puzzle_front_kale&badge.pdf" target="_blank">➤ Folding Puzzle with Kale</a><br>
    <a href="img/pcs_folding_puzzle_harder.pdf" target="_blank">➤ Hard Folding Puzzle</a>
  </p>