Frequently Asked Questions

Apprentices work on six week contracts helping clients with their digital product needs. Apprentices work under the guidance of leads and principals. In conjunction, apprentices take advanced course work during the six week work period as a learning cohort. Apprentices are scheduled to work 30 hours per week on a client contracts.

Yes. Client contract work is paid. Wheelhouse sets and publicly publishes regional hourly rates for apprentices. Wheelhouse uses third party local salary data from multiple sources and uses the median rate for the where the client is located to set the hourly rate. Wheelhouse uses smart contracts to ensure rate and contract term transparency.

Yes. The intent is to provide real world experience that you use as proof of your abilities. Since Wheelhouse uses smart contracts your role, work and contribution are verified and public.

Yes. Effectively, Wheelhouse Academy is a school with an in house agency, the difference is that we lead by doing first, with the classroom supporting the work in the field. Tuition is used to compensate the instructors, less a 10% overhead, tuition is a pass through to instructors.
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Tuition: We are still figuring out a fair price. You can help us set fair pricing as a member. We are aligning pricing to be comparable to community college and college adult education programs.
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Tuition includes:
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• Two courses over six weeks for 36 hours of virtual classroom
• 1:1 office hours with each instructor for four meetings per course, total of 8 meetings
• Assigned mentor for six, one hour mentorship meetings

Yes. The courses cover advanced topics that address nuanced, ambiguous,  The courses accelerate your capabilities, and on completion of the stackable courses over a one year certificate provide an equivalent of a 2:1 ratio of industry to eduction experience.
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Apprentices take two courses over six weeks. A class meets for three hours per week in the afternoon, for two courses that is six hours of virtual classroom instruction per week. Assignments are estimated to take six hours per week for each class, for a total of an additional 12 hours per week of out of classroom work.