Never a Dull Moment 📈

Liggins: I didn’t initially have expansion at the forefront of my mind, not because I didn’t think it was something that we wanted, but with Code School, things happen so quickly. There was never a pause to wonder, “what’s going to be next?” Instead, I think we’re pretty fortunate that everything just kept rolling. We did our first pilot program here (in South Bend) at the Robinson Center which brought on more partnerships with the Boys and Girls Club and the Juvenile Justice Center. Then we started our first open-enrollment style program, and realized, “Oh, we need a space, to be able to have classes!” After that we found ourselves getting laptops and making more curricula. And before we knew it we are making new contacts, in Fort Wayne and Elkhart and meeting those community partners who were like, “Hey, we’d help you to bring this program here.”

Sejdinaj: I think that this option for expansion, has come up a lot quicker than we thought it would in that, we meet people from other places, and they’re very passionate about the same things we’re passionate about, and they want to bring the program there.

Once you have some community partners, it really expedites the process.

At a certain point, it becomes like, “we’ve got everything we need in that community, and we have to take the jump at some point!”