Get paid while you learn to code? Yes.

THIS ISSUE AT A GLANCE

• Something True → DeveloperWeek NYC: The CreateHER Fest team spent two days at one of the largest developer conferences on the East Coast — and we’re sharing everything you need to know.

• Something to Sign Up For → Resilient Coders Free Full Stack Engineering Fellowship: 18 weeks, fully free, and you get paid $500 every two weeks while you learn. Built specifically for folks breaking into tech. No prior experience required.

• Something New → Claude Corps: Anthropic just launched a paid fellowship for early-career builders — $85K salary, 12 months, placed at a nonprofit using AI for real impact. No degree required, under 2 years experience, applications close July 17th.

• This Week's Resources → The a16z FDE Fellowship, AMD Developer Hackathon ACT II ($20K in prizes + free GPU credits, open through July 11), NVIDIA's open-source Physical AI agent tools, the Skip AI Builder Grant ($10K for builders), a freeCodeCamp course on building AI Slackbots with Node.js + GPT-4, and more.

Hey CreateHER’s,

Midway through June and the opportunities are not slowing down. This week we've got a paid coding fellowship for people with zero experience, free Claude access for nonprofits and educators, a $20K hackathon that opened yesterday, and our full breakdown of everything we learned walking the floor at DeveloperWeek NYC last week.

Whether you're job-ready, building, or still figuring out your next move — something in this issue is for you. Let's get into it.

📣 Something True: We Went to DeveloperWeek NYC — Here's What We Learned

Last week, the CreateHER Fest team was on the ground in New York City for DeveloperWeek NYC and AI DevSummit. Two days, dozens of sessions, and some of the most honest conversations we've had about where AI is actually headed.

The energy this year was different. Less hype, more accountability. The sessions that packed rooms weren't about what AI can theoretically do, but what actually breaks when you try to ship it, who's responsible when it goes wrong, and how to build systems that hold up under real conditions.

That's the conversation our community needs to be part of.

CHF’s own Zaria Hallager broke down every session she attended — from RunPod's model delivery infrastructure to JP Morgan Chase's case for Skill Engineering replacing Prompt Engineering, and it's all live on our blog now.

A huge thank you to Vonage for making our presence at DeveloperWeek possible. Having partners who believe in empowering women technologists in these spaces is what makes this work sustainable.

🌟 Something to Sign Up For: Resilient Coders Engineering Fellowship

Our longtime community partners, Resilient Coders, are accepting applications for their FREE Full Stack Engineering Fellowship, an 18 week program designed to help underrepresented talent launch careers in software engineering!

Not only is the training free, fellows also receive a $500 biweekly stipend while enrolled in the program

You'll learn:

• Programming Fundamentals

• HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React

• Node, Express, MongoDB, PostgreSQL

• AI Tools and Applications

• Technical Interview Preparation

• Personal Branding

• Freelancing Skills

Eligibility Criteria

• Priority for 18-35yr olds, if older please still apply

• Low-income (based on HUD guidelines)

• Minimum HS Diploma or GED (candidates with Master's degrees or higher do not qualify)

• Resident of the Greater Boston or Greater Philadelphia regions.

• Authorized to work in the United States

If you are, or know of, someone who is looking for a sign to invest in yourself and your future, this might be it!

📣 Something New: Anthropic Just Launched Claude Corps

If you're early or midway in your career and looking for a way to build real AI skills while getting paid to do it, Anthropic just launched Claude Corps!

Claude Corps is Anthropic's new national fellowship program. They're placing 1,000 fellows at nonprofits across the U.S. — full-time, in-person, for 12 months — to help mission-driven organizations actually implement AI. Fellows get trained on Claude, matched with a host org, and supported throughout.

Here's the breakdown:

• $85,000 salary + benefits — full-time for one year

• 5 hours of weekly training built into your schedule, every week

• a CodePath mentor + direct office hours with Anthropic's team

• open to anyone 18+ with under two years of full-time work experience — no degree required

• relocation support available if your placement requires it

The first cohort of 100 starts October 2026. Applications close July 17th.

This is one of the clearest on-ramps into AI work we've seen! Especially for folks who don't have years of experience but know they want to build in this space. Don’t wait, apply TUH-DAY!

THIS WEEK’S RESOURCES

• a16z FDE Fellowship — An 8-week cohort from a16z Build for Forward Deployed Engineers at the forefront of enterprise AI deployment. If you caught last week's breakdown of the FDE role and want to accelerate your path into it — this is the fastest track available. Apply →

• AMD AI Developer Program — Free program for AI builders that includes $100 in DevCloud credits, expert support, community resources, and a monthly sweepstakes for an AMD Radeon GPU and AI PC. If you're building and paying for cloud compute out of pocket, this is worth grabbing today. Join →

• Building an AI-Powered Slackbot — freeCodeCamp — Free course covering how to build and deploy an AI-powered Slackbot using Node.js, Express, Slack Bolt, GPT-4, PostgreSQL, and Render. Directly applicable if you're building community tools, onboarding automations, or agent workflows in Slack. Watch →

• GitLab Transcend Hackathon — A two-week, fully virtual hackathon from GitLab built around AI-native software development and GitLab Orbit, with two tracks for contributors and builders. If you want to ship code or build an agent/flow/skill that gives AI real context, this is the event to join. With $20,000 in cash prizes. Deadline: June 24th. Join hackathon →

• NVIDIA Physical AI Open Source Toolkit — NVIDIA just released a massive open-source collection of physical AI agent skills and tools — spanning Omniverse, Cosmos, Alpamayo, and Metropolis — freely available on GitHub and skills.sh. Works with any coding agent. If you're building with AI agents or exploring on-device/physical AI, this is a significant drop of free infrastructure to plug into immediately. Explore →

• Skip AI Builder Grant — $10,000 — One $10,000 grant for builders creating AI tools for entrepreneurs and small business owners. Currently open. No massive application — worth checking eligibility if you're building in that intersection of AI and small business tools. Apply →

• HF0 Residency — Up to $1M on an uncapped SAFE for idea-stage and early founders building at the frontier of AI. One of the few residency-style programs that invests this heavily at zero-to-one stage. Rolling applications, San Francisco-based. Apply →

Until next week,

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