Deadline: June 25, 2022
Applications are open for the Bulb Africa Fellowship Program 2022. The Bulb Fellowship is a 4-6 month training program for young tech enthusiasts across Africa.
The Fellowship Program provides a rewarding experience for those looking to launch a career in technology. Prospective participants simply need to choose a course, join a cohort, complete projects, and gain real experience through internships. Since its inception, the Fellowship has offered on-demand courses providing foundational training to help tech enthusiasts launch careers in the following coding and non-coding technology fields:
Net point: Master the guidelines for developing a wide range of mobile or web applications on Android, iOS and Linux. This 6 month course teaches:
- Data Structures and Collections in C#
- Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
- Asynchronous programming and IO
- Generics, delegates, events and lambdas
- Language-Integrated Query (LINQ)
- Automated tests with xUnit/NUnit
- Database Access with ADO.NET/EF Core
- RESTful Web Services with ASP.NET Core Web API
- Web apps with ASP.NET Core MVC/Razor Pages
- Securing apps with ASP.NET Core Identity
JavaScript: Gain the complete knowledge of one of the most sought-after programming languages in the world today to build mobile and desktop apps from scratch. In 6 months, you will learn and practice:
- Modern JavaScript with ECMAScript2015+
- Create and style web pages with HTML and CSS
- Adding web page interactivity with JavaScript
- Server-side programming with Node JS and ExpressJS
- Working with databases and ORMs
- Automated testing with Mocha/Jest
- Create user interfaces with React
- Manage Application State with Redux
- Securing web applications
DevOps Engineering: Acquire skills that facilitate communication between developers and IT operators, ensuring that companies around the world deliver software solutions faster in a stabilized operating environment. In 6 months, scholarship holders will discover:
- DevOps and the Software Development Lifecycle
- Cloud computing with AWS and Azure
- LINUX administration and shell scripting
- Continuous integration and deployment
- Containerization with Docker
- Container Orchestration with Kubernetes
- Configuration management tools
- Infrastructure automation tools
- Continuous monitoring tools
Product design: Gain comprehensive knowledge of one of the most sought-after skills in the world today to build and design mobile and desktop apps, websites, and more. During 4 months, you will learn:
- Products, product design and the role of product designer
- Design thinking and human-centered design
- User search
- User Experience (UX) Design
- Information Architecture (IA)
- User Interface (UI) Design
- Work with design tools
- Prototyping and usability testing
- Creation and management of a design portfolio
- Stakeholder engagement
Product management: Accelerate your understanding of bringing new products to market, developing existing products, and managing release features through all stages of the product development lifecycle. This 4-month training covers:
- Create and identify opportunities
- Market research and competition analysis
- Product Development Life Cycle
- Definition of product vision and strategy
- Build product roadmaps
- Product development methodologies
- Build a business model canvas
- Product launch
- Understand metrics and analytics
- Corporate Communication / Stakeholder Engagement
Data analysis: Acquire comprehensive knowledge of data understanding by creating algorithms and adopting various techniques to uncover patterns that can get lost in the mass of information. Become a data analyst in 4 months through intensive training in:
- Extract data from databases
- Extracting data from APIs
- Data extraction using web scraping tools
- Data cleaning and processing
- Fundamentals of Python Programming
- Exploratory data analysis with NumPy and Pandas
- Asking the right questions from the data
- Data Visualization with PowerBI/Tableau
- Identify trends in data
- Build and evaluate predictive models
Quality assurance testing: Master global standards and procedures to ensure the best products and services are brought to market. In 6 months, you will learn:
- Software development life cycle
- Software testing — fundamental concepts and terminology
- Software testing — types, hierarchy, and principles
- In-depth analysis of test documentation
- In-depth analysis of automated tests
- Testing the API with Postman
- Performance tests with JMeter
- Web Application Testing with Selenium
Advantages
- Access on-call technology professionals and lifelong support and opportunity through friendships that can grow into professional relationships.
- Develop skills in high demand in the tech industry by completing group projects and working with fellows to develop valuable products.
- Enroll in a scholarship program that simultaneously prepares and satisfies you. Receive monthly stipends for your efforts as you build your tech career.
- Focus on learning all the skills you need until you get hired without paying tuition. Bulb’s Tuition Payment Plan allows you to pay when you graduate and find a job. Alternatively, you can choose to pay upfront.
- Put your skills to good use and get a head start in your career by accessing internship opportunities through partner organisations.
Eligibility
- You must be a tech enthusiast.
- You are between 18 and 35 years old.
- You must have at least a university degree.
- You must have a NYSC clearance certificate.
- You must have at least two guarantors, a parent and a non-parent.
Application
The application process is as follows:
- Fill in the required information and submit your application.
- Receive a home study guide to prepare for the technical assessment.
- Pass the technical evaluation.
- Take the aptitude test.
- Get invited to an interview.
- Obtain conditional admission.
- Complete your biographical data form and submit the required documents.
- Get unconditional admission.
- Receive your laptop and start training.
For more information, visit Bulb Africa Scholarship.
