Wix Playground Academy

The popular website design platform Wix has been offering its Wix Playground Academy which has been held twice at the company offices in New York City. The program is meant for design students and freelance web designers in the early stages of their careers. An online version of the course was recently conducted in Europe and some of the academy's 150 graduates have already found jobs in high-tech.

Participants in Wix Playground Academy in New York City     Credit: Wix

This summer they are planning to bring the Academy to Israel where the company is based. During the intensive five-week session, students will meet (virtually) with some leading designers from around the world and be mentored by industry leaders and designers from the Wix design studio. 

Wix is traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market at a market cap of $16 billion and has 200 million registered users. The company has about 5,000 employees, 2,600 of them in Israel. Company headquarters are in Tel Aviv.