2017 was a busy, truly enjoyable and successful year for Le Wagon Montréal: Here is why.

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The beginning of 2017 marked the birth of Le Wagon Montréal. Antoine and I were very excited and honoured to bring the best coding bootcamp in the world to Montréal, the first city in North America to run the program. We could not have had better momentum.

We settled down at La Gare, a collaborative workspace and entrepreneurial community in the heart of Mile-End. The perfect match 😉.

A year has passed, so we can take a deep breath and look back at our accomplishments.

One Year after we launch Le Wagon Montréal

Running a 5-star program ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

We ran 3 batches of our FullStack Ruby on Rails program. 42 students came from all over the world to learn how to code with Le Wagon for 9 intensive weeks and have begun a new chapter in their lives.

Some have started their own entrepreneurial journeys, like Gabriel, while others found great jobs in the tech industry.

Students came from Canada, the United States, Brazil, France, Belgium, UK, Switzerland, Morocco, China, Korea, and Japan.

Thou shalt give to your community. And the community will give back.

We are very active in the Montreal startup community. We have organized more than 40 free meetups, including coding workshops for beginners, talks with inspirational entrepreneurs and networking events, which in total have involved more than 1800 participants.

We had the privilege to welcome inspiring entrepreneurs who generously came to share their journeys:

• Eric Walker, CTO, Sonder
• Julien Brault, Founder & CEO, Hardbacon
• Alexandre Boucherot, Founder & CEO, Ulule
• David Doyon, Founder, Mindset
• Caterina Rizzi, Co-founder, Breather
• Sylvain Carle, GM of Founder Fuel & Partner, Real Ventures
• Frédéric Morin-Bordeleau, Co-founder, MR-63
• François Arbour, Founder, PremiumBeat.com
• Patrick Gagné, Partner & Chief Product Officer, Téo Taxi
• Cassie L. Rhéaume, #WomenInTech Ambassador, responsible for the project “Les Filles et le code”, Concertation Montréal
• Chloé Freslon, Journalist and Author, URelles and columnist, La Sphère, Ici Radio Canada
• Emma Williams, Campus Director, Notman House
• Ilias Benjelloun, Creative Director, MTLNewTech and Interpreneurship Catalyst, DesjardinsLab.com
• Béatrice Couture, GM, InnoCité MTL
• Christine Renaud, Founder & CEO, e180
• Marc-Antoine Ducas, Founder & CEO, Netlift
• Martin Lessard, GM, MT Lab
• Rodolphe Barrère, Co-founder & CEO, POTLOC

The videos shared on our social networks have been viewed more than 21,000 times.

We are also very proud and thankful that we have been nominated in two prize categories for the Montreal Startup Community Awards. 😌

Thank you 🙏

We are very grateful for the support we’ve received from the Montreal community, and especially for the extraordinary work of our team of teachers and mentors here ❤️.

Thank you Eden, Mélanie, Margo, Dima, Martin, Victor, Boris, Julien, Lionel, Adrien, Nick, Salim, Antoine and MG

We are blessed to be part of Le Wagon’s amazing worldwide community and for the help and inspiration of the extraordinary leadership of founders Boris, Romain and Sébastien.

Experience Le Wagon Montréal

If you are still wondering what it is like to experience Le Wagon Montréal, check it out:

Interested in learning more? Go to www.lewagon.com/montreal

We wish you a wonderful holiday season

2017 has put Le Wagon Montréal on the right track. Watch out 2018! 🚀

Let’s connect: We are on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

One Year after we launch Le Wagon Montréal

Coding Bootcamp in Montréal - Le Wagon

2017 a été une année très occupée, passionnante et réussie pour Le Wagon Montréal: voici pourquoi.

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Originally published at medium.com on December 21, 2017.