Citing a shortage of local talent, Grand Circus hopes to help train the next generation of coders and developers in a new 15,000 square foot space in the Broderick Tower.
xconomy: Grand Circus intends to offer a “very differentiated” curriculum and way of engaging the community when it launches in September.
Tech training is largely a box-checking exercise,” says co-founder Damien Rocchi. “It doesn’t necessarily add value to day-to-day work and it’s not always cutting-edge. At Grand Circus, we’ll cover the latest thinking in mobile and Web development.”
Rocchi explains that the Grand Circus approach to training is to develop a curriculum around helping companies and individuals by delivering the skills necessary to find jobs. “We’re focused on high-challenge, high-reward topics,” Hoos adds.
Grand Circus also brings in real-world practitioners from partner entities like Detroit Labs, Apigee, and Alpha Jango to serve as instructors. Classes are interactive rather than lecture-based. “We take all the great entrepreneurial tech talent here and find instructors from that sphere to share with the community,” Hoos says. “It’s truly a community organization.”
This would be so much cooler if they didn't use phrases like "very differentiated" and entrepreneurial tech sphere. Why don't these things ever exist in a polyhedron?
Of course, maybe the Grand Circus folks speak in a plainer language when they aren't talking to a publication that sounds like a skateboarding club for Milton Friedman fans.
