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Talk Description: Hear about different tech careers that you could potentially pursue. There are plenty of careers to learn about, including data science, product management, tech law, machine learning engineering, and CS researcher.
Speaker Bio: Hello, everyone. I&#39;m Hana Gabriellle (she/her) and I&#39;m a Program Analyst at Wells Fargo. I work on digital accessibility to make their products and services more accessible to people with disabilities. Outside of work, I love to read, write, volunteer, and walk on the beach.

Career Talk: Overview of Tech Careers

Talk Description: A discussion of the concept of &quot;culture fit&quot; as it&#39;s employed in tech companies, and how to determine, as an interviewee, when &quot;culture&quot; considerations might be impacting you. We&#39;ll also cover how to hardball interview questions, and how you can judge whether a company is a good fit for you before they&#39;ve figured out whether you&#39;re a good fit for them. If time permits, will include examples of common kinds of interview questions, and possibly some discussion of how to judge offers from companies. 25-30 minutes of presentation, with the rest of the time being dedicated to discussion and questions. Intended audience: Anyone who is interested in getting a job in tech.
Speaker Bio: Maxwell Zimon has been writing software since he was little and had a bowl cut. Right now, he&#39;s a senior software engineer working on restaurant technologies at Olo; before that, he wrote music composition and publishing software for Musicnotes. His professional interests include improving the tech hiring process, learning about the .NET CLR, and birds. He lives in Tucson, Arizona, with his wife Athena, and two very important cats.

Career Talk: Culture Fit and Interviewing Soft Skills

Talk Description: Be among the first high school students to learn about this emerging technology that will change the world. We&#39;ll discover the differences between quantum and classical computing, explore quantum physics phenomena, and examine the applications of quantum computing in fields like cybersecurity and finance.
Speaker Bio: Ricky is a Junior at the University of Connecticut studying Math and Physics. He is particularly interested in High Energy Particle Physics, though he became interested in Quantum Computing because of QubitxQubit. He enjoys the connection between Math and Physics that Quantum Physics provides, and is excited to share his passion through workshops.

Tech Talk: Introduction to Quantum Computing

Talk Description: Many students are looking for jobs at the big-name tech companies, but did you know there are thousands of smaller companies where you can make a big impact building new products!? Join CodeDay alum and startup founder Sage Khanuja to learn more about why you should consider working for a startup, and how to find startups that are hiring.
Speaker Bio: Sage was the co-founder of Spira, a backend, no-code tool which makes it easy to create digital “smart forms” that utilize machine learning algorithms to enhance patient screening and adapt to patients over time. In 2021 he sold his startup to Galileo, a New York-based healthcare company, while he was just 17!

Career Talk: How and Why to Look for Jobs at Startups

Talk Description: There are a lot of ways to contribute to shipping a video game. In this presentation, I will discuss a few dozen of them. What does a system designer design? What skills are needed to be an effective release manager? How are modern games tested?
Speaker Bio: Bill Clark is a game engineer and designer with experience in solo, indie, and AAA game development. He has worked on games like League of Legends, Halo 4, and Dota 2. He is now a technical designer at Riot Games working on a game in prototyping.

Career Talk: Game Development Roles

Talk Description: 3D programming, or computer graphics more broadly, is a type of software engineering that&#39;s most commonly found in video game companies. But there&#39;s a lot of other industries that do this type of work too, like geospatial/mapping, scientific visualization, and marketing. This talk will go over how to get started learning this type of work &amp; where to find jobs for it. It&#39;s a fun and creative field to be in especially if you enjoy combining technical &amp; creative work.
Speaker Bio: Omar is a 3D graphics engineer working at Snapchat on the map. He is currently based in Ithaca, NY and grew up in Alexandria, Egypt. He enjoys making small web games as a hobby. He loves mentoring &amp; helping out, so don&#39;t hesitate to reach out! <a href="https://omarshehata.me/">https://omarshehata.me/</a>

Tech Talk: Intro to 3D programming & how to get a job doing it

Talk Description: Learn the simple project management tips on improving your CodeDay project delivery and these skills are certainly something you can use in your daily life.
Speaker Bio: Nick has over 20 years of experience in the IT field in various roles. Nick is passionate about project management discipline, mentoring and sharing knowledge with others.

Career Talk: Introduction to Project Management

Talk Description: When you get a new job, to make the best impact and impression, it&#39;s always a good idea to develop a plan for the first several months, to set yourself up for long-term success. We&#39;ll go over some of the keys to developing that plan, and getting into the habits that will make you successful!
Speaker Bio: Katerina Hanson has been managing Engineering teams in the Silicon Valley Startup world for over 4 years. She loves to work on personal performance and development and has a good track record of helping her engineers advance in their careers from Jr. to Lead.

Career Talk: Developing your 30/60/90 Day Onboarding Plan

Talk Description: In this talk I&#39;ll cover everything I wish I knew when I was applying for jobs after graduating from college in the US, like when to bring up your immigration status with potential employers &amp; how to negotiate for work visa &amp; permanent residency sponsorship.
Speaker Bio: Omar is a 3D graphics engineer working at Snapchat on the map. He is currently based in Ithaca, NY and grew up in Alexandria, Egypt. He enjoys making small web games as a hobby. He loves mentoring &amp; helping out, so don&#39;t hesitate to reach out! <a href="https://omarshehata.me/">https://omarshehata.me/</a>

Career Talk: Navigating jobs in the US as an international student

Talk Description: We will talk about the new standards that are evolving to use Digital IDs on the phone that replaces paper identities (e.g. Drivers License, Birth Certificate, Education Degrees, and more)
Speaker Bio: Love to work on innovation, learn and educate

Tech Talk: Digital IDs and how do they work?

Talk Description: In this Q&amp;A session, ask any and all questions about computer vision, edge-computing for computer-vision, sensing depth in the real world, robotics-vision, or anything else relating to what Luxonis does!
Speaker Bio: Erik Kokalj is a software engineer with an electrical engineering background and an open-source enthusiast. He is Director of Applications Engineering at Luxonis. In this role, he helps users and companies leverage the power of spatial AI at the edge to upgrade their projects and products to the next level. He also develops DepthAI code samples, demo apps, helper tools and technical documentation, and provides custom solutions support. Prior to Luxonis, he worked as a software/firmware engineer for four years. He has a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. Erik is based in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

AMA: Luxonis - Spatial AI - Robotics vision

Talk Description: Creating a Mixed Reality engine from scratch is a lot of work! We&#39;ll talk about how the project originated, how it was scoped to make it feasible, and about the tools and tricks that made it possible to build with limited resources!
Speaker Bio: Nick Klingensmith specializes in tool development, graphics programming, MR, and OpenXR! With over 100 published games, he&#39;s worked on small arcade games, mobile GPU pushing titles, all the way to massively networked social games. The tools he&#39;s published on the Unity Asset Store are also used in thousands of games, on just about every modern platform imaginable! Nick works for Microsoft on the Mixed Reality Middleware team, and is the author of StereoKit the Mixed Reality Engine, and the Mixed Reality Lighting Tools.

Tech Talk: Building StereoKit, an Open Source Mixed Reality Engine

Talk Description: James Gan currently works at Affirm as a Software Engineer on the Infrastructure team. Previously, he held a similar role at PayPal. Come by and ask him anything - he previously volunteered with CodeDay for over 5 years!
Speaker Bio: James Gan graduated with a degree in Economics from Cornell University in 2018, and a Master&#39;s in Computer Science from Georgia Tech in 2020. He worked on internal Blockchain innovation projects at PayPal in addition to his full-time job, and has over 3 years of Graduate level TA experience at Georgia Tech. James is an avid advocate of personal finance, Computer Science Education, and DEI in tech.

AMA: AMA with an Infrastructure Software Engineer in FinTech

Talk Description: In its 2003 annual geological report, the National Science Foundation listed the top three most complicated ecosystems as tropical rain forest, volcanic sea floor, and modern Javascript web development. It&#39;s no surprise -- given the sheer number of different languages and technologies that go into making modern websites, it&#39;s very easy to get lost to the point of not even knowing where to start. This workshop will cut through this informational fog by introducing a simple yet modern web development stack through the development of a &quot;crypto-clicker&quot; game. The technologies covered will be React, Typescript, and some kind of server stuff that I have yet to decide on.
Speaker Bio: Anton is a third-year at the University of Chicago studying math and computer science. In his free time, he is trying to finish an online robot game for programmers, although that&#39;s what he&#39;s said for the last three years so who even knows at this point.

Tech Talk: React, Typescript, and the Modern Frontend Web Stack

Talk Description: Increase your market worth by becoming a value-driven engineer. Companies do not hire people to fill in a position; companies hire people to generate more value for their customers, so customers pay them in return. To be successful means to become obsessed with producing value, so the company has an essential return on their investment in you. In this presentation, we will look into the 5 habits of value-driven engineers and how you can develop them.
Speaker Bio: Cristina Elena Nistor is a Romanian Computer Science graduate who started her career in IT in Mexico 17 years ago. Cristina always loved to travel but as a young graduate she was broke so when she got this internship at this Mexican company, her dream came true, she could travel the other side of the world while working to finance her adventures. She became a digital nomad. All the while Cristina has been working on developing her professional career and now she is the Director of Operations at TESTCo, a company that does software testing. This role allowed her to implement a home office environment where everyone could live the life they love, either spending more time with their families or traveling around the world. Furthermore, she founded Management Talks, a management mentoring program aimed at helping first-time managers improve their management skills.

Career Talk: Don’t be irreplaceable, be invaluable!

Talk Description: There’s no doubt you always want to move up the career ladder, at the end of the day, everyone wants to achieve success, In this workshop, we’ll explore different strategies to help you pivot your career no matter what level you are at in your current field.
Speaker Bio: Gift is a Developer Advocate at Cloudflare. She has worked in the web development industry for over 5 years building tools and products that help businesses scale. In her previous role, she worked as a front-end developer. She is now working in developer relations.

Career Talk: Being Intentional about your Career Growth

Talk Description: This talk will cover basic concepts for securing web applications, and vulnerabilities such as SQL injection, remote code injection (RCE), and Cross-Site Scripting (XSS).
Speaker Bio: Adele is a Senior Security Engineer with a full-stack development and informatics background. She performs penetration tests of web applications, cloud-deployed software systems, and mobile applications. She is a proponent of developing tooling to improve security assessment automation and effectiveness. Previously, Adele interned in the Business Intelligence at Starbucks, was a teaching assistant for data science and server-side development classes, and a research assistant in the disaster resilience space.

Tech Talk: Introduction to Web Application Security and Insecure Coding

Talk Description: In this 45-minute webinar, we will cover the fundamentals of artificial intelligence, from core concepts to ethical concerns to hands-on applications you can build today. I&#39;m excited to see you there!
Speaker Bio: I graduated from Yale University in 2021 with a Bachelor&#39;s in Mathematics and Philosophy. Currently, I&#39;m based in Washington, D.C. and I work as the Program Director at educational technology start-up Inspirit AI.

Tech Talk: AI for All

Talk Description: I will be talking about how video games and films use music to assist in expressing their messages. Examples include Ace Attorney, Paper Mario Origami King, and Star Wars the Rise of Skywalker. Then I will briefly go over my journey to entering this world and how others can get started without requiring musical experience.
Speaker Bio: I am a content strategist and I love video game music! Before my current position, I spent a few quarters in college interning as a musical composer with a video game company. While I don’t currently compose, my friends can testify that I’ve bored them to death on this subject countless times. Favorite Video Game OST: Professor Layton: Unwound FutureFavorite Film Score: Star Wars: Phantom Menace

Tech Talk: Storytelling with Music (Videogames and Other Media)

Talk Description: Join CodeDay executive director Tyler Menezes as he explores the different ways that you can start contributing to FOSS, or Free and Open Source Software.
Speaker Bio: Tyler Menezes is the Executive Director at CodeDay, where he works to provide welcoming and diverse opportunities for under-served students to explore a future in tech and beyond. Born in Canada but raised in the Pacific Northwest, he briefly attended the University of Washington before dropping out to start a Y Combinator and venture-backed social video startup in 2011. This, combined with stints working in machine learning at Microsoft Research and as a programmer at several Seattle startups, led to his work finding data-driven solutions to increasing CS diversity and enrollment since 2014.

Tech Talk: Contributing to FOSS (Free and Open Source Software)

Talk Description: This talk will be in roughly two parts. The first is why someone would want a PhD: what career paths does it open up? Why is it different from a Bachelor&#39;s or Master&#39;s? What are the pros and cons of graduate school? The second is how someone can set themselves up for a PhD: how can you prepare, during undergraduate or while working, for a PhD? What do PhD programs look for in a candidate? Once in a program, how can you do &quot;well&quot;? Hopefully, if someone is considering pursuing a PhD, this talk will help answer some questions, or at least introduce a new possible path for others!
Speaker Bio: Vivian is a second year PhD Student at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. She does research with the Future Interfaces Group, advised by Dr. Chris Harrison. Her background is in sensors, computer vision, and conservation. Recently, she has been working on haptics projects, which have been featured in venues such as Popular Science, TechCrunch, and more! In her free time you can find her taking photos and playing way too much ultimate frisbee.

Career Talk: The Hows and Whys of Getting a PhD

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Finally got a working werewolf lets goooo

Made in Josh's workshop today at CodeDay Baltimore!

Now with some really cool edge blending (and also the lave now actually grows and shrinks over time, making it seem more active

Astronaut! just to UV the body, texture paint it, and rig it!

This CodeDay logo is 10% organic and photosynthesizing plant, 20% dash wands, 60% parts for my project, and 10% dead plant (I’m not the best at keeping them not kicked)

After way more Trial and Error than you would think would be necessary, I have Io imported!

I've since improved the program, here's a more recent render of the same thing, but from a different angle:

I've been working on a fractal rendering program & just added some 3D rendering stuff

Don't ask me why but I made coherent noise in Google Sheets

There are gonna be so many of these little boxes with blurbs, and it is so cool

Alcheminetic website so far. I have found a style and I like it

Today is my mom's birthday, so I've made a game dedicated to her, and for her birthday present. I'm gonna release it on my itch site sooner. 😄

Not exactly happy with how it came out, but 2nd draft of the Alchemist Doctor set, designed to help with the alchemical transmutation plague

its not much buts its ~~honest work~~ funny

I added the ability to play in the settings like a piano because why not. I also added a progress bar and improved audio on misses to sustain for however long you hold it instead of always being a constant duration.
https://uwuhero.github.io/

Just added stars in the menu based on score

Did some cool camera work, got an amazing picture of a robin nest with my phone

My fiancee and I took ring-making classes this morning. Bottom is the ring I made

The font size is wrong and the text didn't wrap and somehow this dialog box came out perfectly.

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