My favorite part of this whole experience

Udacity Grow with Google Mobile Web Specialist Scholarship experience

Then I got the e-mail that I was accepted into the challenge scholarship

I was very thankful and excited to be chosen for this! The challenge courses were challenging offline first web apps with indexDB. Also keeping up with the group on forums and slack.

When it ended I kept learning with the free courses offered. Then in April I got the e-mail saying I got the full nanodegree. I was shocked! very thankful and excited! I made it to the 1,000 out of 10,000 to get this mobile web specialist nanodegree!

I had completed some of the courses from the nanodegree in the gap between the challenge and nanodegree start because its very easy to sit inside and learn all winter. In the spring and summer it is very nice outside and I wanted to be able to enjoy it if I did get the nanodegree. I was able to do both!

Work got very stressful a few months in to the nanodegree around the time of the first soft deadline. I ended up having a round of my chronic illness and missed the deadline. Suddenly I was behind and worried that I would not make it.

Things started to get better and I got caught back up. I asked classmates for help and watched a lot of walkthrough videos to help me understand. I had to turn down some fun weekend gatherings with friends but I made it through and finished before the hard deadline.

Now I still have a lot of work to do getting more created for my portfolio. I feel more confident than when I started but I have a long way to go to make this jump from 11 years in manufacturing to web development.

I am still learning and practicing everything I feel like javascript is so broad and there are so many libraries and tools to work with it.

is being able to work through it at my own pace at home. I was able to be here for my daughter and family without having to sit in a classroom miles away for 4–6 hours every night. The best work life balance.

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