Despite its founding a mere two years prior, the NYC-based General Assembly has already become renown as a tech-centric educational institution. This partnership with 1776 brings General Assembly’s campus count to nine, with classes already being offered in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, London, Sydney, and Hong Kong. During the announcement at the event, Burfield talked about the opportunity for this partnership to tap into the vast resources of the Washington region. He hopes that this educational programming will enable people to make further innovations in some of our nation’s largest sectors (like education and healthcare). Schwartz came on after Burfield, and echoed many of Burfield’s points. He added that there is definitely huge potential for great things, considering DC’s highly-motivated and highly-intellectual environment. After the official announcement of the partnership, the festivities continued, and some of us returned to stuffing our faces with mac and cheese hors d’oeuvres. Oh, right, football was watched by many – if you’re into that.
