Our Story
As a traditional computer science graduate from university, it took me longer than it should have to understand what she was going through, but once I was able to put myself in her shoes, we decided this was a problem worth solving.
It's hard to keep going.
40% of college students drop out before receiving a degree, and we find those numbers unacceptable. We’ve spent a lot of time working on the motivation problem, and we’ve found that gamifying the learning experience goes a long way to helping our students finish strong.
We’ve built an achievements and gem system that gives students in-app awards by staying engaged and doing well in their course work.
Schools and bootcamps are too expensive.
The average total cost of public college in the USA is between $25,290 and $40,940. Even coding bootcamps that cut corners in order to get students out the door faster can cost around half of that amount.
Qvault’s goal is to give students a complete computer science undergraduate education for (at most) a couple hundred dollars.
By meeting our goal, students will spend around 1% of what they would at a university or Bootcamp, and the education they receive will be so much more useful and applicable than what’s taught at boot camps.
Our Team
Lane Wagner - Author and Founder
I'm Lane! I've always been interested in technical education, but I've finally pulled the trigger and started working on it. I've been a part of quite a few software projects, from low-level hardware solutions up to highly-scalable cloud architectures. I've been building Qvault and writing coding courses since May of 2020.
Zulie Rane - Author
Hey, I'm Zulie! I'm a freelance writer and coding aficionado. I've had coding-related jobs in the past, but today I stick to writing about programming and coding the odd bot or script for fun. I've been writing blog posts on Qvault since November 2020.
Breanna Wagner - First Student & QA
I'm Breanna, and I happen to also be married to Lane! I'm (recently) a mom, a CS student, and an aspiring #WomenOfTech. I spend a lot of time in Qvault helping to build the roadmap for the product and regularly tests the application for bugs and issues. I enjoys fantasy novels, buying stuff for our new daughter, and jigsaw puzzles. Lots and lots of jigsaw puzzles.