A high-performance virtual studio.
Our students don't sit in passive virtual classrooms. They work from a custom digital studio utilizing professional DevOps pipelines, async messaging hubs, and physical hardware labs shipped to their homes.
A day in the life of a Catalyst engineer.
Traditional online schools try to copy physical classrooms using Zoom links. Catalyst is designed differently. We copy the working methodologies of elite software engineering teams: fluid sync-meetings, transparent code reviews, and structured task boards.
1. Async First
Continuous support through our Slack and Discord hubs. Students share code logs, troubleshoot deployment errors, and coordinate builds with their cohort and teachers in real-time.
2. 1-to-1 Syncs
Daily dedicated face-to-face video discussions with subject specialists. Rather than lecturing, teachers act as senior team leaders, debugging blocks and guiding code architecture.
3. The Oral Viva
Every major project concludes with an oral defense. Students demonstrate their working system live to two internal faculty members and an external industry engineer.
Professional engineering tools. Shipped to your home.
We train students using the exact software environments used by industry-leading cloud and systems teams. No dummy simulations, simplified tests, or sandboxed environments.
- GitHub Enterprise: Every student manages their coursework in Git repositories. Coursework is submitted via Pull Requests (PRs), reviewed line-by-line by faculty.
- Jupyter & VS Code: The standard environments for data science, automation scripting, and systems configuration.
- Notion Workspace: Used to document project plans, record system architecture, and map out AWS migration paths.
- At-Home Hardware Kit: Shipped to all students at start of term — includes Raspberry Pi 5 node, sensor boards, software defined radio, and AWS/Red Hat sandbox accounts.
Experience a day at Catalyst
Book a single, dedicated 1-2-1 taste session with a Catalyst teacher for £79 to experience our virtual studio directly.
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