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Yeah. So, actually, I came from the corporate world on. I was, uh I was doing some things on the corporate side of the equation for a pretty long period of time, probably up to 30 years. I decided, and probably decided long before I actually left the corporate world that I wanted to do something entrepreneurial. First of all, and you know, this is gonna sound a little bit trite, but maybe a little bit more impactful. I wanted to do something that was really gonna help other people. Now when I was in the corporate world, which, by the way, it was a great experience. You get great training the corporate world. I was actually involved in the training department and I really enjoyed that. I really enjoyed watching people grow, so I actually ran into someone that had a new idea. It was probably seven years ago. It's been a while. And in the tech world, as you probably know, seven years is kind of like a dog's life. So about 49 years, because things move so fast. But he had an idea to actually come over the training program to help students get technical skills as software engineers. So we launched I left the corporate world, which was quite the risk, as you can imagine, have being 46 years old to go and start something. But I did it and it turned out really well on it really worked out well, because I got to be able to do something that where you people come back and really thank you for changing your life. Because if you know anything about learning something like Web development software engineering, it could be difficult. But it's also absolutely life changing. Even makes you think differently, so, yeah.
well, we have. We have several different programs. We have a full immersion program, which is probably the main program around software engineering, and it's 14 weeks long. Students spend anywhere from 10 to 12 hours a day, even eight hours the weekend, so it's fairly intense and rapid. It's rewarding, though, because the the idea behind the program is it's all built on something called deliberate practice, which you may be familiar with, which is a very focused way of learning something by actually doing it to gain that skill. So that's the full immersion programs, software engineering. We have a part time program that uses the same curriculum that you're going to spend probably three times as long because it's part time. So it's three separate modules, but it's the same curriculum if you go all the way through to get the same skills. We recently launched the U I. U X program that was started the beginning of this year, and we're very soon going to be launching a data science program on the data science program won't be part time. It'll be full emerging, also similar to soft engineering
well, this is an outstanding question because in technology things move really rapidly and you have to be up to date. So we certainly we have engineer slash instructors that keep us up to speed. They're always doing side projects. They all had experience working in the industry, so they know what is necessary to learn so that students have the skills at the end of the program. But as important, probably more important is that we have collaborate with employers in the marketplace, and they are more than willing to share information with us and advice about what students should know. What should they, what they should learn and how deeply they should learn so that they're proficient autonomous developers at the end of the program. So the main thing that we do is we are highly collaborative with employers and the people that put together the curriculum. Instructors have a lot of experience in the marketplace