Our second cohort of 2025 will begin soon! If you've been trying to start your career in Software Development, we'd love to meet you. Please read this page for details about the upcoming training and how you can seize the moment! Deadline to apply is March 28th, 2025.
Calling All Mentors!
We invite local professionals who enjoy mentoring to get in touch and learn how you can inspire the next generation of software developers! Volunteering to mentor gives candidates in your community the opportunity to learn from you, get new perspectives on old problems, and access your wizened advice as they build their first steps towards a career.
Mentors set their own schedule and work within your own specialty. We prefer to have you work this way so that our candidates are getting the guidance directly from your working experiences. We require mentors to have no less than 2 years experience working within an active role building software of any kind, to include System Administrators and IT professionals who regularly use code.
If you're interested in being a mentor to the next generation, please call or visit. Help us build a community of software developers who nurture our talent.
See What Our Apprentices are Building...
Our apprentices are building a suite of mobile games! This project will help us generate funding for our FREE tech training programs. We provide our apprentices with professional opportunities, and this is our way to showcase the results we can achieve when you sponsor and support our mission.
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Play on Mobile, PC or Mac!
All purchases support FREE training programs!
Play Our Games == $upport Our Training Program!
Our apprentices will build it! See the quality of our training programs through the skills they've earned!
The app is FREE. Every dollar you spend while enjoying our games directly funds our tech training programs!
Create a virtuous cycle: apprentices build software, the community receives software, and all proceeds ensure we can keep training new apprentices!
The current app is open for testing by all of our supporters and sponsors! If you'd like to request access, use the links below to join and download the game!
Our projects make it possible to develop free career training programs within our local community. Offering high quality, professional, FREE training from local software developers is a challenge we can meet with your support.
We want members of our community to be equal participants in the digital economy by learning to be more than digital consumers. We do this through supporting professional career development for aspiring programmers. Programmers Guild Oakland is doing our part to ensure we're represented in the next generation of programmers! These young professionals will lead the charge to develop the software we all rely upon.
This campaign has been nurtured and supported by our beloved community at Oakstop, and our amazing partner Soul Beat TV! These organizations have our eternal gratitude for all of their support! We're proud to partner with other organizations whose mission aligns well with our own, especially if you're local!
