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U.S. Sen. Durbin Talks Tech Education and Jobs at Code Platoon

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) visited Code Platoon’s headquarters on Friday to learn more about the coding bootcamp for veterans and military spouses. Code Platoon’s students, who are a week away from graduation, presented Durbin with an iteration of their capstone project — a web app that allows users to submit and vote on pet […]

Boeing Invests in Veterans with $100K Grant to Code Platoon

The push to get veterans and military spouses trained for STEM jobs got a boost with the announcement of The Boeing Company’s $100,000 grant to Code Platoon, a web development boot camp for servicemembers. Rod Levy, executive director of Code Platoon, calls the grant “recognition of the learning and hard work of the veterans, and […]