Skilstak is education as it was always meant to be! In our very institutionalized world where individualism is discouraged this learning community is a breath of fresh air. Purely from an educational standpoint you are going to grow intellectually here regardless of your age. Rob is a well spring of knowledge eager to teach those that want to be taught, and wanting to be taught is the key. He has an uncanny way of making challenging problems entertaining to solve. I often find myself delighted to continue work on projects throughout the week fully knowing I will not be graded. I was already in tech prior to meeting Rob, a matter of fact I teach tech courses at a local community college. It took me some time to finally decide to start learning at Skilstak. At first I didn't fully understand how a personalized education like this would work and had some fear to take the risk for some reason. Ultimately, I am glad I decided to do it! The price is a tremendous value for the unique education you are receiving in return. I've attended well known universities that can't hold a candle to what Rob is building at Skilstak. Consider the current price for 16 1 hour weekly session: $800. Each session is going to be specialized to where you are in your learning process in which you can ask questions and get personalized help the whole time. Compare that to learning the same material at a College or boot camp where you can expect to pay $2000 per semester to receive a one size fits all education. Honestly, I could write about how great Skilstak is all day! You should try it for yourself. Schedule some time to meet with Rob and see how this could fit into your learning process. read more

We attended classes here on and off for three years. With class names like Code and play, and enticements like "ethical hacking" what tween could resist?! The business has a sweet little set up convenient to Cornelius and Davidson and Huntersville, with a small downstairs area that has several tables and chairs with many desktops and laptops. My son loved the computer coding and games and chatting with the other kids and he seemed to be learning although I could never quite put my finger on what he was learning :-) Unfortunately a lot of the in-class instruction was verbose and tangential and the main instructor/owner in recent semesters seemed to have other projects going on in other rooms and leave the kids for extended periods. Also our 7-10 year old kid felt uncomfortable asking questions sometimes as instructor could be a bit critical. Regarding what the kids are learning or what they're supposed to be working on outside of class, parents receive high tech speak, LONG emails and there is a general lack of consistency or clarity. AND the main instructor can be defensive if you have questions or concerns, plus it really ain't cheap! so we finally just did a cost-benefit analysis and pulled out. The good thing is our son has been able to teach his peers basic coding for some time now, he knows a bit of python and roblox and other stuff blah blah and the local science museum computer whiz was very impressed with his knowledge recently, so I know he learned a lot here. The local community college offers classes and we will be proceeding with computer sciences there. read more