Announcing the first series of workshops at the Geeks FSO Campus at Valleyh Settlement House

"Coding and Content Workshop 101a"

The first 2 hour coding and content workshop mini-series, "Coding and Content Workshop 101a," of the Geeks FSO Campus at Valley Settlement House for young adults ages 18 to 25+ is scheduled to begin on Sunday, July 20th at Valley Settlement House, 33-41 Tompkins Street, West Orange, NJ 07052  (973) 678-2550.

This initial mini-series will run for 6 weeks from 2 to 4 PM on Sundays through August 24th.

We will explore the use of online resources such as Jon Chan's Bento website as a guide for independent study for coding mobile apps and creating content for the internet within a workshop-based student-with-mentor learning environment.

Initially we will be looking at HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Objective-C, and Java.

The end goal of Geeks FSO Campus program is to develop marketable skills in our students for employment in rewarding careers, or even simply to enrich their lives with a deeper understanding of and heightened ability to interact with the exponentially expanding technology of the modern world.

Contact Hilding "Gus" Lindquist, hilding.lindquist@gmail.com to apply as either a mentor or a student. But while you may apply as one or the other as your main "function" in the program, you will be both within the context of the workshop.


There are a limited number of openings depending on the number of volunteer mentors available, but no more than ten students will be accepted into this workshop series as members in five two-person teams, and only ten more student applications will be accepted for the waiting list. As yet we have not put a limit on the number of mentors accepted into the program or put onto the waiting list.

This means that for this workshop series there will be a maximum of five two-person mentor teams working with up to five two-person student teams in order to be reasonably certain of at least one mentor and one student for each team's participation in the workshop.

Teams will be matched by their laptop's operating systems. For this initial series of workshops, students are expected to bring a wifi compatible laptop suitable for the workshop and will be assigned on a first come, first served basis to an available mentor team with a matching operating system. (Mac, Windows 7, Windows 8, etc.)

Prospective students without suitable laptops should still apply if they want to be put on the waiting list.

To the prospective student: If you are concerned as to whether or not your specific laptop is suitable then contact Gus for a determination while we are accepting applications, and no matter what, you will have put yourself in line to get a student slot in the program at some point ... and we know that extensive delay is denial, so we will be working as hard as we can to get you into the program as quickly as possible.