Learning and innovation don't happen in isolation. We are a team of developers who code together, teach each other, and create change together. We hail from a wide variety of cultural, ethnic, and academic backgrounds but we are drawn together by a common force: our passion for technology.
Our coders learn in one of the most productive ways available to a technologist - on the job. In our full stack environment you will develop skills like MVC, SQL, UI/UX, VR/AR, and soft skills such as faculty engagement, leadership, and the intercultural communication skills required of the world's best programmers.
Our goal is for UA faculty to no longer be dependent on simple luck when they need a talented coder to support their research. Instead, we strive to provide a sustainable and growing pool of tech talent grown from our own Wildcat ranks.
Tech Core is not a "software team for hire" we are an expansion of your team's existing tech capacity. We emphasize intercultural collaboration, communication, broadened cognitive perspectives, unchained creativity, and guts - because that's where innovation comes from.
The Tech Core model is an innovation in and of itself. It is self-sustaining, agile, and eager to grow. The program has been running since 2016 and has accelerated every participant’s career, produced IP through Tech Launch Arizona, and fostered interdepartmental collaboration.
A central component of the program is what we call “the bench”. It is a physical configuration of furniture, work stations, and whiteboards that is essential to team building and productivity. It facilitates parallel programming, a coding model we use exclusively. Visitors are frequent and encouraged. The bench is a highly visible display of the student/faculty energy that the program generates and is a remarkable tool for messaging and amplifying the university’s commitment to collaboration.