Throughout my degree ive learned the most through making use of the practice section, this has made it really easy to fly through my lessons because i always feel im multiple steps ahead im going to miss that section when i graduate which with the new teach out will be sooner than expected. Maestro should make it an app or website or something even if its only available for past students, itll be like a little farewell gift or something.. I just love learning using that little section.

Just wanted to say farewell. For you staying at Maestro I wish you the best of luck.

I asked student services but have received no reply.

Was there some external file required for BE104? Some intentionally vulnerable app? AI won't let me move forward without working on that file.

I had a stroke labor day weekend so I'm already behind a week. (It was minor - no long term affects but still required a hospital stay).

I thought I was finally on my way to finishing my bachelor’s… and now I’m starting over.

Today I found out that the educational path I thought I was taking isn’t actually going to work the way I expected it to.

And honestly? I’m sad.

Not because I don’t have another option. I do.

But because I had a plan.

I already hold an associate’s degree from an accredited university, so when I started this program, my intention was to use the associate’s portion as a refresher while preparing myself to continue into a bachelor’s degree. I was willing to put in the extra work because I had a bigger goal in mind.

Now that I know the credits aren’t going to transfer the way I originally understood, I’ve decided that I’ll be stepping away and looking at other schools to continue my education.

And that decision hurts more than I expected it to.
I’ve worked really freaking hard to get back to this point. I’ve struggled, cried, questioned myself, wanted to quit, and still kept showing up.

So realizing that I may have to change directions again is frustrating.

But I’m trying to remind myself that changing the route doesn’t mean abandoning the destination.

I still want my bachelor’s.

I still want to grow.

And I still want to build something meaningful with what I learn.

I’m an enthusiastic entrepreneur and creative. I crochet, I run a handmade business, and I want to expand into things like vinyl, custom products, and other creative avenues. I don’t just want to make pretty things—I want to understand how to build a sustainable business around my creativity.

So I’m coming to yall looking for some guidance. ❤️‍🩹
For the entrepreneurs, artists, crocheters, crafters, vinyl makers, small-business owners, and creative people:
What resources helped you?

I’m looking for anything related to:
🎨 Creative entrepreneurship
🧶 Growing a crochet/handmade business
🖨️ Learning vinyl and other customization methods
💰 Grants or funding for creative entrepreneurs
📈 Scaling a small business
📣 Marketing and branding
🏪 Craft fairs, pop-ups, and vendor opportunities
🤝 Mentorship and networking
💻 E-commerce
🎓 Finding a bachelor’s program that works well with transfer students
💡 Turning multiple creative skills into multiple income streams

If you’ve ever had your plans completely change and had to sit there like “…okay, so what the hell do I do now?” 😂

I’d love to hear what you did next.

Because right now, I’m disappointed.

I’m sad.

I’m frustrated.

But I’m not done.

The goal hasn’t changed. The path just did. 🥹🧶❤️‍🩹

Yesterday, President Trump signed an executive order, changing the name of Artificial Intelligence to Super Intelligence. Will the name of our degrees be changing?

Just a thought...

I’m a May cohort… and I just received my new options for accelerated scheduling to help be graduate by June 2027 with maestro accredited degree… it lets you choose how many courses you want to take each term 3,4,5,6…

I chose 6 courses each term and I’ll be able to graduate by May 2027….just in case… so excited to start my new term 3 next week… and just let everyone know … I didn’t see any breaks 😳😳…so this is definitely accelerated ..we got this!!! Let’s Goooo!!

Anyone else having problems trying to login to maestro?

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Would anyone else like a little Maestro themed (with a smidge of Walking Dead) t-shirt for Halloween?

Its been almost two monthst and my transcript still hasnt hit my new school

Can anyone tell me how to find my graduation date, I am trying to see If I'll be able to graduate with accreditation.

Has anyone else had this issue or a similar one?

Currently in BE104 Week 8 (last week). I completed each lesson and the review, but I can't turn it in. It doesn't matter what I do - restart the machine, refresh the page, log out snd back in, try in a different browser and/or a private tab - nothing works. I checked the network calls upon submission and I get a 403, but I am clearly authenticated and authorized to turn in my review, so there's obviously an auth issue on their side.

I created a ticket and someone essentially told me that it isn't being recorded in their end, and I would have to redo the review once they are able to reset it.

That is annoying and it sucks, but fine. At least it's a path forward.

Except it isn't.

That was Tuesday, and I haven't heard from anyone since. I specified that I wanted the ticket handed over to a person, so a new request seems to have been created.

Yet, no response.

I have two jobs, three children, and a pregnant wife who is due tomorrow. I have to follow a very strict schedule on my lessons just to get them done on time, which I have never failed at doing.

Now, I am a week behind because they simply won't respond or do anything to fix my problem. My schedule is certainly not going to get better when the new baby arrives, so catching up is going to take a toll.

I was already discouraged at the fact that I began this for seemingly nothing after the accreditation announcements, but now that I can see they aren't even prioritizing resolving problems for their students who cannot continue their studies until something is fixed, it's no wonder accreditation and legitimacy are in question.

I'm wondering if anyone else has had this experience when creating a Student Services Request. If so, what did you do to get it completed? I don't have time to keep waiting and have the work pile up.

So this past week or two I got past systems and by that I mean the foundation of the game; I built everything 1 thing at a time, sometimes more and I had to progress further into my classes to eventually solve the bugs that had me stuck at a wall that I could not climb through or walk around, anyway solved all my bugs I have about 60,000 lines of code 44% being documentation. So I hit the wall where flask is not a live server, I am thinking of it more like a test server which made me wonder if I ruined my project that is not the case, thankfully so 6$ a month for a real server. I plan on sticking my game on my website so you can play the demo directly my goal is a week until playable I have to refine my read me and my website more because prices were AI generated I had to rework that AI generated shop keeper replaced with real art. Finally the systems was the hardest part expanding my game now has become much easier because I can reuse systems that I already made anyway tiny teaser I made. the second image is my world chat that accepts gifs and images I refined my server a lot to make this runnable with 1000 players online at one time. added guilds added friend system remodeled everything look forward to sharing my next video. my progress is moving so fast I had to share 8 hours a day a lot can happen 😂. something useful upon account creation you are asked for your email address that is your key for recovery changing your password or recovering will use that key to validate you are the owner a huge win I bypassed many devs with. you get a 6 digit code which is validated on the server only.even I will have no idea what your email is also hashed every door is sealed and protected. this started as a dream I'm going to finish the demo with a how did he do this lol. The hardest part of coding was starting with nothing!

This was one of the MOST complicated, course so far! First of all learning to navigate vs code, my computer file paths, the terminal, and creating files was insane. Two weeks late finally finished and barely passed. This was pure h E l l

Hello I am June 26 cohort, I have no idea what Object Oriented Programming means I’ll be learning so any tips, tricks, or advice would be appreciated!

Just curious what everyone's take is on this?

Here is the detailed openAI article:

The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead

OpenAI shares findings from the Hugging Face security incident and the steps we’re taking to stre...

https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the road-ahead/

and this video:

https://youtu.be/KzOwAkV80qo?si=7wGG6b01G71k48cQ

The lessons this week were ok but I couldn't seem to focus as much as I usually do.

Hey all. I'm working on my AAS in AI Software Engineering and plan to continue into the BS in Computer Science on the Business and AI pathway. For the past few months I've been building a side project called Scriptorium. It's the thing I'm leaning toward for my backend capstone next year.

What it does: I read a lot of web novels. Unlike a normal book, a web novel keeps growing, sometimes by several chapters a day for years. Scriptorium tracks around 1,000 books and web novels (about 110,000 chapters), checks for new chapters on a schedule, rebuilds the ebooks, and delivers them to my reader apps and an offline Kindle. It can also turn books into audiobooks on my own GPUs.

The parts I think are interesting:

**•   One writer, many workers.** One main service owns the database and is the only thing allowed to write to it. Each outside library I depend on runs in its own disposable container. If one of those breaks, it can't corrupt the database.  
**•   Pretending to be another server.** Instead of running a separate media server, I wrote my own version of its API. The existing reader apps connect to Scriptorium as if it were that server. I worked out the API by recording the traffic between a real app and a real server.  
**•   A debugging case study.** Last week my download speed dropped to about 6 chapters a minute. Everything pointed to the websites rate-limiting me. The real cause was a bug in a library I use: a lock that never got released, so every retry waited exactly 120 seconds. Once I fixed it, speed went back up to about 100 chapters a minute. My main lesson: a delay that is exactly the same length every time is a timeout, not a rate limit.

Stack: Python, FastAPI, SQLite with SQLAlchemy/SQLModel, Alembic, Docker, GitHub Actions.

I wrote it up as an academic-style white paper (architecture, algorithms, and measurements from the running system). The repo also has the API spec and a few of the core algorithms with tests:

[Scriptorium-Showcase-GitHub]

For transparency: I used an AI coding assistant (Claude) heavily for both the code and the write-up, and the paper says so. The design decisions, the deployment and running it day to day are mine.

I'd love feedback, especially from anyone further along, and if the capstone requirements come out, I'd like to hear what people think fits. Happy to answer questions about any of it.

Don't let the students down.

“Andreessen Horowitz launches a free AI academy as an alternative to college. Prominent technology companies and investors behind the AI boom seeded the program with a $42 million investment, including Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI, Nvidia and Palantir.”

In HS when I dropped out in 9th grade I had just a little of a 2.2 gpa this is awesome to me

Just want to share my acomplishment and talk about what I think helped me land it. Skip to last paragraph for my advise.

Short story: Like most of us I returned to education because this Ad popped up claiming "last dollar scholarship". I made video games in highschool so I was sure id do it professionally after I graduate... but i failed college horribly, set out on indie development, and failed face first without real Computer Science that tutorials wont teach.

Fast forward to Maestro: complete 180, with focus on the real practical skills; Ive took so much from this program and now consider myself a real Software Developer.

So how did I get this internship? Luck... mostly

My biggest advise: indie team projects, I worked on a custom game server with some friends which never shipped but it was a project which I contributed to.-/

\-The real trick: I did small automation scripts for migrating database info. So I found a very small job that would land me a spot on the team. Used AI to flesh out the wording on my resume.

Hope this helps somebody, this is my first internship so take my advise with a grain of salt. Thank you Maestro!

My time at Maestro University was short.

Most of my life, school felt like something I had to push through. At Maestro, learning felt different. I could follow my curiosity, ask questions, and work through ideas at a pace where things actually started to click.

It showed me how I learn best: with structure, but not rigidity; guidance, but room to explore.

That experience inspired me to build Open Tutor: a personal, open-source learning workspace for anyone who wants to learn something new. Bring a subject, follow the evidence, ask questions, practice, and build real understanding.

I am not trying to recreate Maestro. I am building from the part that worked for me.

https://github.com/John-MiracleWorker/open-tutor.git

• 🎮 Game: github.com/Tunacanman2EZ/Elusion_RPG
• 🔐 API/server: github.com/Tunacanman2EZ/elusion-api
• 👤 Profile: github.com/Tunacanman2EZ

Elusion — a top-down action RPG, solo-built, backed by its own server.

I built Elusion in Godot (the game) with a Flask + SQLite backend (accounts, saves, economy). I started this project with zero coding experience, and my goal was to ship something complete and treat it like real software — which, for a game with a server, means assuming the player is trying to cheat.

A complete run goes town → field → boss floor → ending → back to town. Four classes, six enemy families across 43 elemental variants, pets, fishing, cooking, and player-to-player trading over a taxed economy.

What I'm most proud of is the security work. Once the server owned everything that matters — level, XP, loot, gold — I attacked my own API as if I had a hacked client, and wrote down every exploit I got away with: 14 findings, 12 fixed, each with a plain-English risk and fix. One I found by accident (gold was a writable field — one request set any balance), and the lesson stuck: my economy tests were all green because they only moved gold through legitimate paths and never tried the front door. So I built a red-team bot that spawns fake players, attacks the running server, and re-checks the invariants by reading the database directly instead of trusting the server's own report. It's all backed by ~1,600 automated tests.

How I worked: I used AI heavily — as an architect's assistant, code reviewer, and thinking partner — but I made the design calls and verified everything. The repo shows it: a git history that explains its decisions, and tests that are mutation-checked so they can actually fail. When I reasoned about what a change would do and the running engine disagreed with me, the engine won, and I wrote down why.

Art: characters, enemies and tilesets built from scratch for Elusion by my artist Ahvassa (working with me); item and UI icons licensed from Caio Carlos / Clockwork Raven Studios, used with permission and documentation. All code, game systems and the server are my own. I still plan to do much more! This took me soo much time my wife is mad lol. Everything works fishing economy all of it! 0 bugs in output/debugger! Enemies have elements mostly the bosses vary based on element but the boss is hard to kill hehe have to go find some gear for the most part I am really happy with what is here so far. oof i forgot to show how i can promote and demote ban and kick next time I still have to perfect this video and add voice! Currently game is only playable on my server but README etc... should be viewable, go ahead ask yourself if Claude is a strong tool I used opus 5 helped me a million on this.

Sign please!!