We have students coming from all over the US and Canada including Los Angeles and San Diego. They join our Full-Time program, which is originally designed for the needs of students coming to the campus for 3-4 months.
We have many students from San Francisco. They easily drive from the City and back. Without traffic the commute would not take longer than 50-60 minutes.
We also have students who live as far as Sacramento or Monterey. Some of them would commute on the days we have classes joining Express (morning time) oer Flex (night time) programs. Others would be on full-time staying locally with friends or renting some housing nearby the school.
For those who commute daily the most challenging part of the program is going for an internship. All the companies taking our interns are located in between San Francisco and San Jose. There are no internship opportunities outside of that region.
So, if you life 80-100 miles from the campus, please, think about possible commute and how you can handle that.
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Video taping all the sessions in the School
As of today we have Nikita on-board to take care of all the technical issues in the school. He joined us from Kazakhstan for 18 months as an international trainee on J1 visa. Nikita's term will end up in April of 2012 and we will bring two more trainees to join the Portnov Team.
Both will come from Ukraine. One person will take over Nikita's responsibilities. Another one specializes in Digital Media. He will take videos in our classrooms, edit them, and organize into convenient libraries.
Why do we want to create the videos? The primary interest was originally in giving our online students better connection to classes we teach on campus. It is especially important for the self-paced classes.
Besides that we want our Silicon Valley students to be able to repeat each and every session of their choice without driving to the school and sitting in the classrooms. There is really no need in that.
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