Community Events

We are now looking for the next generation of innovators by launching this challenge: Show us what you’d build given that you CAN recognize people based on their typing.

We encourage you to be brave and think out-of-the-box. With no barriers to creativity, your project could even showcase how aliens use TypingDNA authentication to make sure that the alien they are messaging is who they claim to be.

TypingDNA Hackathon
– Goal: Innovate and create anything you can think of as long as your project includes TypingDNA API calls.  Show us what you’d build given that you CAN recognize people based on their typing. 
– Prizes: $110,000 in prizes
– Deadline: October 31

The Quick Base Virtual Hackathon is asking you to “wow” us:

By addressing real problems that exist right now. We’ve provided some inspirational themes – Connection, Responsiveness, Equity, and Security – to kickstart your brainstorming. See the Inspiration tab for more details.
Through imaginative use of our most powerful features. What can you do with our in-memory database, automations, integrations, APIs, code pages, and formulas?

Quick Base Virtual Hackathon
– Goal: Calling on creative problem solvers to address today’s biggest challenges using Quick Base’s low-code platform.
– Prizes: $250,000 prize pool, including cash, promotion, and more
– Deadline: November 16

The monday.com build it better challenge is a contest bringing developers around the world together with the mission to build apps that can alter the way teams work. monday.com can help CRM, Marketing and Creative, Software Development, Construction, and tons of other teams work together and do their best work.

We are giving three Teslas to three grand prize winners, along with Macbooks to the top two apps built for the five categories.

monday.com Build it Better Challenge
– Goal: Build a new monday App that allows teams to improve collaboration, communication, teamwork, or simply make daily work a little more joyful in one of the required categories (CRM, Software Development, Construction and field workers)
– Prizes: $184,000 prize pool, including Teslas, promotion, consultation and more
– Deadline: November 30

The Alexa Skills Challenge: Beyond Voice is an opportunity for developers to create immersive Alexa skills that combine voice with rich sound, visuals, touch and motion. You can mix audio tracks at runtime with APL for Audio (beta), add visuals and touch to your skills with APL, and now even motion-enable your skills with new motion and sensing APIs. You can also leverage web technologies such as HTML5 for voice games with the Alexa Web API for Games.

Alexa Skills Challenge: Beyond Voice
– Goal: Build (or update) an Alexa skill that uses APL for Audio (beta), APL, motion and sensing APIs OR Alexa Web API for Games to add rich audio, visuals, or motion to your experience.
– Prizes: $97,000 prize pool including a trophy, cash, participation prizes, and more
– Deadline: November 17

In the latest Eclipse IoT Commercial Adoption Survey, 60% of the respondents stated they are factoring open source in their IoT deployment plans. This clearly means the dominant IoT platforms in the market will either be open source or based on an open source core. In this session, you will learn why that came to happen and how this will impact your business model if you are an integrator or end-user. You will also explore how the surging open source hardware movement will change the landscape.

For this meetup, we’ll be hosting Frédéric Desbiens, Program Manager, IoT and Edge Computing, at Eclipse Foundation. Frédéric’s job at the Eclipse Foundation is to help the IoT and Edge Computing community innovate by bringing devices and software together. He is a strong supporter of open source. In the past, he worked as a product manager, solutions architect and developer for companies as diverse as Pivotal, Cisco and Oracle. You can follow Frédéric on Twitter @BlueberryCoder

The Eclipse Foundation is an independent, not-for-profit corporation that acts as a steward of the Eclipse open source software development community. It is an organization supported by over 300 members. The Foundation focuses on key services such as: intellectual property management, ecosystem development, development process, and IT infrastructure. Its members include industry leaders who have embraced open source as a key enabler for business strategy.

Join our community in celebrating the accomplishments of our 401 JavaScript students while also getting an exclusive look at the projects that are created during a week-long development sprint. The group presentations will give you a great sense of the stories and backgrounds of the students coming out of Code Fellows, while also providing insights into the skill sets gained over the past weeks. In just 5 days, these students plan, build, and launch an MVP to demonstrate their development capabilities.

There is no better way to be part of our community while also gaining early access to the talent from our program than joining for this event!

Join us, virtually, from the comfort of your home (once registered, the link can be located under “Addition Information” in your confirmation email)

EVENT DETAILS

Hello everyone of the New Tech Northwest Family,

My name is Anousha and I am on the Programming Team of TechTogether Seattle.

I am reaching to non-binary individuals and women within the tech field, with the hopes that you would be interested in hosting a workshop for a virtual hackathon we are conducting from January 22nd (Friday) – January 24th (Saturday).

We wish to provide hands-on activity for our participants to learn new skills through experiential learning. By hosting a workshop, you will not only promote your company and potentially hire new employees, but also help foster a community of talented women, femme, and non-binary individuals in the tech industry.

This year, our focus for the event is staying connected while we’re physically apart (“Always Together, Never Apart”). Since your organization is focused on inclusivity in tech, we were wondering if any of you were interested in hosting any of the following workshops:

– Intro to Resume and Technical Interview Workshop
– Intro to GitHub
– Intro to Android app development (ANDROID STUDIO)
– Make your first-ever IOS app (SWIFT)
– Using APIs: How to Build a Chat
– Intro to Game Development
– Build a project with AI/Machine Learning
– Intro to Web Development (HTML CSS/JavaScript)
– Intro to UI/UX
– Intro to Python (build something)
– Intro to Cybersecurity workshop
– Intro to AR/VR Workshop
– Intro to Cloud Computing
– Interview Preparation Workshop
– How to Fund Your Idea – Pitching Selling your Idea (for any entrepreneurs in Technology)
– How to Build a Website with React.js

Our team will work closely with you to organize and plan appropriately. You can find more about us more through our website (which will be provided by the ‘learn more link’).

If you’re interested, please the form attached below and let me know when you are available in the coming weeks, and we can set up a Google Hangouts call! You can also contact us via the email address provided under ‘Contact information’.

Workshop Host Sign Up: https://techtogether.typeform.com/to/dQCWd2nc

Best,

Anousha Shadrach

Programming Team, TechTogether Seattle 2020

Join us, from the comfort of your home, on Zoom (once registered, the link can be located under “Addition Information” in your confirmation email)
Why do all of my Git branches have merge conflicts? Why can’t I push from my computer to GitHub? Why am I continually tempted to just throw my repository out and start over fresh? How the heck does Git actually work, anyway?
If you’ve ever asked these questions, fear not! In this session, we’ll go beyond the usual Git 101 to discuss what actually happens inside a Git repository. We’ll learn how Git interacts with GitHub, why you keep running into the same “gituations” over and over, and what to do about them. You’ll go from Git noob to leet Git haxor in no time!

About the presenter:
Emily Kapor-Mater is a full-stack software developer who works in Ruby, JavaScript, and Elm. A graduate of Code Fellows in 2015, she returned as Lead Instructor for Code Fellows, she has taught Code 401: Advanced Software Development with JavaScript, as well as Code 501: Front-End Development with React/Redux. She is a Senior Engineer for QualityLogic, Inc. working on web integration and acceptance testing. Emily has also been involved in Seattle Girl Develop It and is an advocate for LGBTQ people throughout the tech industry.

Join our community in celebrating the accomplishments of our 301 students while also getting an exclusive look at the projects that are created during a week-long development sprint. The group presentations will give you a great sense of the stories and backgrounds of the students coming out of Code Fellows, while also providing insights into the skill sets gained over the past weeks. In just 5 days, these students plan, build, and launch an MVP to demonstrate their development capabilities.

There is no better way to be part of our community while also gaining early access to the talent from our program than joining for this event!

Join this event from the safety & comfort of your own home (once registered, the link can be located under “Addition Information” in your confirmation email)