It seems like every time we talk to someone in tech recruiting or hiring, we hear more and more about how the Philadelphia region has many more tech jobs available than qualified folks to fill them.

About a year ago, The Economy League of Greater Philadelphia found that Philly had added about 8,000 tech jobs since 2013. And on the national level, it’s projected that the country will have as many as 3.5 million STEM jobs available by 2025.

We’ve seen coding bootcamps, workshops and reskilling programs across the region for folks either looking to level up their developer skills or switch careers altogether and jump into the tech industry. And Thursday night at Independence Live, the most recent Penn LPS Coding Boot Camp cohort showed off the work they did over their 12- or 24-week program that taught frontend and backend development course for future full-stack software engineers.

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