They're going online, so can you

Did Best Buy or Fry's lay you off? Do you know someone impacted? Nucamp is opening a new $50,000 scholarship fund so you can land on your feet.

Online sales for Best Buy have surged in the past year while in-store sales have dropped.

As a result, they're letting 5,000 employees go, primarily those who worked full time.

Fry's Electronics suddenly closes all of its stores and goes out of business, overnight.

If you've been caught in this wave of lay-offs, we want to help you bounce back.

Now might be your best bet to make a career change into coding.

We're offering a $50,000 scholarship fund for former employees of Best Buy or Fry's Electronics to help them land on their feet.

When you register for our Front End or Full Stack Bootcamp, you remove your last tuition payment, or the equivalent of ~25% of the cost.

After working at Best Buy for 6 years, Malachi Mickelonis wanted to pursue other opportunities. During his time at the retailer, he started building a phone game as a hobby and would even load it on the phone display models at the store he worked at to show it to customers. With his affections for the entertainment business, which is even more difficult to break into after COVID-19, he reasoned that just about any industry needs coders, so he started looking into ways to get more serious about it. Fill this form to download every syllabus from Nucamp. And learn about Nucamp's Coding Bootcamps and why aspiring developers choose us. Your First and Last Name* Your Email* Your Phone Number* Your Preferred Community* Your Preferred Bootcamp* Job Hunting (4 Weeks) Submit

Malachi Mickelonis, former Best Buy employee, now Nucamp Bootcamp student

For Malachi, being able to drop everything and take an audition within the hour made it difficult to consider committing to other bootcamps' set schedules, but Nucamp's flexibility made it possible for him to start a bootcamp.

The content has been challenging, but he especially values his instructor and the feedback he is able to receive from other students in his class.

When asked if could say one thing to future students, what would it be, he said:

"You have nothing to lose, it's a great opportunity. Programming is one of the most needed fields out there, why not do it."

To apply for the scholarship, you'll first need to register for either the Front End or Full Stack bootcamps.

After you've registered, take 5 minutes and send us a paystub from either Best Buy or Fry's Electronics.

Once approved, and as long as there are funds still available in the scholarship, your Nucamp account will be credited.

The scholarship details and instructions for how to apply can be found on the Best Buy Bounce Back Scholarship page.