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The Launch School Community
In lieu of a physical space, we’ve built a vibrant community of students from all walks of life. Discover how our students connect with each other while they progress through our 100% online learning curriculum.
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Whether you’d like to ask a question or just hang out, our Slack community chat is the best place to meet the students and staff at Launch School. To access our community chat, sign up to Launch School for free, then locate the “chat room” icon on the left sidebar.
Our Community Study Groups
While you study with us, you’ll have the opportunity to participate in live TA and student-led study groups. Working alongside other students in our friendly environment is a great way to build confidence, gain social skills and maintain accountability in a self-paced curriculum.
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Formal TA-led study groups where students can practice their skills live and prepare for curriculum assessments
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The SPOT (Study, Practice, Overlearn, Teach) provides informal student-led study groups additional practice
In-Person Meetups
From Austin to Austria, around the world Launch School students have been able to connect through in-person meetups!
If you're interested, reach out in our community chat to ask if there's a meetup in your area.
Follow Our Launch School Channels
From podcast interviews to student-written articles, check out the various ways students share their journey through Launch School. We have several social media communities where you can receive updates, tips, articles, videos and more.
Read first-hand experiences of Launch School students
Listen to alumni stories & latest Launch School news
Live Workshop Recordings, Capstone Presentations & more
Seek advice about Launch School from students & staff
Get the latest Launch School news & updates on Twitter / X
Enjoy Launch School news & articles on your Facebook feed
Launch School Shop
Throughout our community, studnts show off their school pride and. study in style with Launch School's branded gear.
Featuring programmer staples including tees, hoodies, coffee mugs, stickers, hats and more.
Community Events and News
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Join us for a conversation with Patrick Moran, Capstone alum and Associate Software Engineer at Activate Care.
We’ll talk about Patrick’s journey through Launch School, from flying through the backend curriculum to navigating some major life changes that made the road to Core and Capstone a little less straightforward. Then we’ll get into his experience finishing Capstone in 2025 and landing a fully remote software engineering job after just one interview! He’ll share why he targeted an entry-level role at a small company, how he approached the job hunt, and what he learned about letting go of expectations and finding your own path. Plus, there’s an unexpected twist to his technical interview story!
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Join our informal meet-up for under-represented genders (women and non-binary folks) in the LS community to discuss programming, share experiences, and gain mastery-based learning tips. Open to 25 students.
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Join our Holiday Study Group Sessions! Team-up, share insights, and prep together for assessments and real-world interviews. Details at Launch School Forum.
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In this episode Jon shares his journey from UX to Software Engineering and then to SRE at Datadog.
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Read what the Launch School community has been up to in this month's Community Update. Featuring important announcements, articles, meetups and more!
Mark your calendars next Sunday for the next Women's Group meetup. Open to Women and non-binary folks, students discuss programming and mastery-based learning.
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See the latest graduate Capstone Presentation! Mayfly is an open-source tool for hosting high-compute, collaborative, and stateful apps in the browser.
Umbra is a browser-based code editing and evaluation tool for quickly and seamlessly collaborating on code in real time.
Sundial is a self-hosted, open-source cron job monitoring system, which seamlessly helps teams manage tasks on private networks across single or multiple nodes.
Laridae is a zero downtime, reversible database schema migration tool for PostgreSQL integrated into a deployment pipeline hosted on GitHub Actions.
What Students Are Saying About Our Community
Launch School has provided a warm and loving community in a time of significant isolation. The sincerity of the school’s purpose has drawn so many wonderful individuals together and encouraged us to really engage in a way I have not experienced with other remote relationships. I’ve definitely made lifelong friendships thanks to Launch School!
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I really value the culture of high standards that Launch School has created. The people in this community consistently encourage each other to push their limits and bring their best efforts. I have studied coding previously in a variety of settings, but I have never been this focused and invested in improving my skills.
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The community is a big part of what makes LS such a wonderful and encouraging place, and I think that it starts with how involved LS is in responding to messages and getting involved in discussions on Slack. It seems to me like LS has cracked the code much more than most on how to make a vibrant and engaging online learning environment.
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I’ve become a more disciplined, methodical, dedicated, deliberate person with my health, finances, personal development, everything! These are things I picked up, not just through the curriculum itself, but through the culture of the community here. I’ll forever be thankful you guys exist.
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The community at Launch School is second to none. There are so many people from alumni, staff, and students who want to help you succeed. In the Slack channels I see staff constantly answering questions and trying to be helpful. Whenever I have asked a staff member a question it has always been met with a thoughtful and supportive answer.
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