Binary Studio Academy 2015

This year Binary Studio Academy has graduated 34 bright IT specialists! For the 5th year in a row we’ve been teaching talented University Graduates, bridging a very serious gap between university curriculum and requirements needed to start career in IT.

Brief summary

This year Academy was held online. Young students after passing a selection process spent 2-3 months of summer intensively studying and participating in real project development from scratch.

Academy 2015

  • Areas: JS, PHP, .Net
  • Applicants: 1471 applicants from 117 cities
  • Academy participants: 90
  • Groups: 9
  • Coaches: 7
  • Graduates: 34

The methodology used for project development was Scrum. A daily Scrum meetings were held via skype and helped much to keep teams on track and get their work done properly.

Projects

Graduation DEMO took place in our new office in Lviv during which students demonstrated their projects – microservices for corporate intranet:

User Profile System for creating and moderating employee’s profiles.

Calendar Event management system for keeping track of all events, booking meeting rooms and planning co-worker’s birthdays.

Accounting Application designed for managing and keeping track of company’s expenses in different categories (HR, events, stationery, etc).

News System for sharing company’s news among the staff (news feed).

Hunter A platform for working with candidates and vacancies.

Asciit Corporate forum, collaboratively edited question and answer application for employees.

Review Online code review platform.

Here is also the link to our projects on GitHub.

Binary Studio Academy – Best start for Smart!

Source: Binary Studio