Saturday, February 8, 2014

Homeless Man Launches Eco-Friendly Mobile App (VIDEO) | LiberalAmerica.org

I have posted about Leo Grand and Patrick McConlogue before. Leo is a homeless man that McConlogue approached and offered to teach him coding. He then went on to write a carpool organizing app Trees for Cars, This current story fills in some gaps in the story I was unaware of and makes it an even better story,,,
The project took longer than two months, but both men were committed, even through numerous challenges. In October, it became too cold to continue working outside and the duo received support from an unexpected source: Princeton Review founder John Katzman, McConlogue’s boss. Katzman not only allowed the two to continue their work at the office of his new educational search engine company – Noodle – but he also allowed McConlogue to work with Grand on Trees for Cars full-time for five weeks.

The app launched on Dec. 10, but this journey doesn’t end with the app. McConlogue is developing his mentorship program, with more than 150 programmers from around the world signed up to spend an hour every day teaching coding.

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Yesterday, we got to sit down the the creators of www.TurnToTech.io NYC, a comprehensive three month developer program. After talking it over today, Leo has decided to return to school at TurnToTech for the next 3-6 months to really hone his engineering schools and to top it off they offered a full scholarship to the program. I respect the founder Aditya, who is a brilliant man but also a man of character. He has a rare passion for teaching and not only is he running the program but he is also a teacher.

Homeless Man Launches Eco-Friendly Mobile App (VIDEO) | LiberalAmerica.org

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