الوكالة الوطنية للإعلام – Holberton software engineering school brings its capacity-building programs to Lebanon in partnership with LAU

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In its newest transfer to boost the profession prospects of Lebanese youth in a globally aggressive job market, LAU has signed an settlement with Holberton, a software program engineering college based in Silicon Valley with 27 campuses in 5 continents. The partnership was made doable by Lebanese businessman Alexandre Harkous who gifted LAU the Holberton Lebanon license he held by his fintech firm StartechEUS.

With scholar employability on the coronary heart of Holberton’s method, its graduates have landed jobs in software program engineering throughout all industries and at high tech corporations equivalent to Google, Apple, Fb, LinkedIn, IBM, Tesla and the like.

The Holberton studying methodology gives Silicon Valley-level coaching for software program improvement jobs. Based mostly on the premise that laptop engineering includes a mixture of technical and comfortable abilities, the varsity gives a collaborative project-based surroundings the place college students work with their friends throughout campuses. College students even have entry to the Holberton community and alumni group.

The programs are sensible and usually are not taught by academics. As a substitute, very like a real-job tech setup, college students are given more and more troublesome duties to resolve. Guided by specialists or college members, they draw on their comfortable abilities – equivalent to problem-solving, important pondering, communication and teamwork – and depend on peer collaboration throughout campuses. Within the course of, they’re regularly upscaling their skillset.

Lessons are intensive and held each day. The admission course of, like the training methodology, consists of a collection of mini-challenges that the coed should full to qualify.

By opening a Holberton college in Lebanon, among the best capacity-building and coaching applications in laptop engineering, LAU could be “empowering Lebanese technology-driven college students, and giving them the chance to develop, thrive and notice their potential by equipping them with the required abilities to compete within the native, regional and worldwide markets,” mentioned Dr. Elie Badr, vp for Enterprise Improvement and International Affairs.

Within the present scenario within the nation, he added, “we consider that the influence of Holberton college applications will present a constructive position within the Lebanese financial system.”

The applications will likely be housed at LAU’s Academy of Persevering with Training, primarily based on the Beirut campus, the place a devoted staff of school and workers will present help from a neighborhood perspective to software program engineering points, onboarding help in the course of the first week, monitoring and steerage throughout Peer Studying Days, and mock interviews.

The Holberton specialization applications, all primarily based on three-month modules, are Machine Studying & AI (synthetic intelligence), AR/VR (augmented and digital actuality), Internet React, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency, Entrance-Finish Internet Improvement and Again-Finish Internet Improvement.

As college students achieve deep data in laptop science, they may have the ability to construct net servers or web sites, implement a blockchain, create a cell app or CRM dashboard, configure a bot or a chatbot, devise facial recognition and object detection codes, create video video games, construct marketplaces, create VR / standing VR experiences, and extra.

LAU-ACE is providing the applications at a extra reasonably priced value than another Holberton campus all over the world, and the college is engaged on securing full scholarships from completely different foundations to assist Lebanese tech college students enroll.

Launched in July 2020, Holberton Center East has to date skilled greater than 90 college students enrolled in numerous specialization applications. The primary upcoming cohort at LAU-ACE will likely be beginning with Blockchain as of March 6, 2023.

On the signing ceremony on December 20, Provost George E. Nasr, representing LAU President Michel E. Mawad who was known as away on a visit, conveyed the president’s delight within the college’s affiliation with Mr. Harkous and on this collaborative settlement “which is aligned with the college’s mission to assist the workforce of tomorrow and meet the necessities of the brand new technology.”

Mr. Harkous, who left Lebanon in 1985 for Paris and labored as a pc engineer in Europe and the US, returned to Lebanon in 2019, when he determined to buy the Holberton Center East license by his firm StartechEUS. His causes for doing so, he mentioned, had been as a result of he “needed to present again to his nation and the Lebanese youth, secondly as a result of nothing occurs with out expertise these days, and thirdly as a result of one needed to be surrounded by the very best folks to ship.”

Holberton, he added, is a sustainable college that’s rising, and he was “more than pleased to present it to LAU as a result of we belief you to ensure that it helps the following technology.”

Whereas Holberton Lebanon was Mr. Harkous’ gift-in-kind to LAU, because of him and his staff the college has additionally signed an settlement to function Holberton New York on LAU’s tutorial heart in Manhattan as of February 6.

Commenting on these new venues, the CEO of the Holberton College Community Florian Bucher just lately mentioned: “We’re very pleased with this partnership with an excellent group and nice folks at LAU. With these two new openings In Lebanon and New York, I actually wish to set up a powerful partnership with LAU to affix our strengths. We’ve got greater than 10 years’ expertise coaching nice software program engineers in Silicon Valley, Europe and Latin America, and LAU has a really sturdy community and an excellent group of scholars within the Center East.” — LAU

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