This is very cool! How did you choose the curriculum that you are following?
I think mainstream bootcamps value getting a job more than actually becoming a good engineer, which is something I disagree with. This also motivates me to show up at the library every day.
If I find some great engineers in the library and bring them into my team directly, will they do good work? If they prove to do good engineering, would it be a sustainable model to hire directly from our volunteer program?
If this works out, we could replicate this model in other public libraries as well.
The comments above are my moonshot ideas, I'm currently experimenting to see if it can be possible.