{"id":7613,"date":"2018-02-01T07:00:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T07:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/?p=7613"},"modified":"2025-09-03T15:24:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T15:24:00","slug":"uship-university-aces-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/shipping-code\/uship-university-aces-test\/","title":{"rendered":"uShip University: Continuing Education for Developers, by Developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At uShip, our employees, especially software developers and engineers, like to be constantly learning and challenged as it ultimately makes them happier people and co-workers. They also like to know the company supports them exploring new interests, mastering current expertise, and being naturally curious.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7636\" src=\"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/uShip-U-2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/uShip-U-2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/uShip-U-2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So in December 2017, we launched <strong>uShip University, a new program for our developers and engineers<\/strong>. It\u2019s an in-house continuing education program run by employees for employees.<\/p>\n<p>No mascots. No expensive textbooks. No tailgating (unless on their own time, of course).<\/p>\n<p><strong>uShip University\u2019s first turnout was amazing<\/strong>. Feedback from developers is that they left excited about learning as a group, gained both personal and technical confidence, and were impressed with the preparation and approach of the course. Course homework naturally resurrected college flashbacks for many.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7637\" src=\"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0033-1024x898.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0033-1024x898.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0033-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0033-768x673.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Courses are prepared and delivered by uShip&#8217;s technical mentors from uShip\u2019s long-time in-house mentorship program. Going forward, uShip University will be held semi-monthly with staggered courses so participants can join multiple tracks.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re considering one of the many developer roles open at uShip, there\u2019s no limit to learning. \u00a0Come join us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At uShip, our employees, especially software developers and engineers, like to be constantly learning and challenged as it ultimately makes them happier people and co-workers. They also like to know the company supports them exploring new interests, mastering current expertise, and being naturally curious. So in December 2017, we launched uShip University, a new program&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/shipping-code\/uship-university-aces-test\/\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":7614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[295,2],"tags":[297],"class_list":["post-7613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shipping-code","category-company-news","tag-shipping-code"],"acf":{"blog_post_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"blog_post_entry_footer","blog_post_entry_footer_cta":[{"blog_post_entry_footer_cta_url":"https:\/\/about.uship.com\/careers\/listings\/","blog_post_entry_footer_cta_text":"See All Openings","blog_post_entry_footer_onclick":""}]}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}