From mnguye61 at uic.edu Mon Mar 2 17:07:36 2020 From: mnguye61 at uic.edu (Michelle Nguyen) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 17:07:36 -0600 Subject: [Acm-announce] Hackathon, Coding Challenge, and Conference Opportunities Message-ID: Greetings! Here are some upcoming events you might be interested in! - PickHacks - Hack the Interview - Tapia Conference More information on each event below. ----------------------------------------------- *PickHacks* , the annual hackathon at Missouri S&T, is back! From *April 3rd through 5th*, you can connect and create with over 500 of the brightest student developers, engineers, and designers from around the Midwest. You'll be working in teams of up to 4 people to build solutions surrounding this year's theme: entertainment. We've got *$15,000+ in prizes* for all skill levels, over *20 sponsors* looking to recruit people like you, and *endless workshops* to learn from. No experience is necessary! Last year's attendees built everything from mobile apps to wearable devices to LEGO robots ? what will you build? Send in your application and learn more information at our website: https://pickhacks.io/ Also, we'll be sending a bus to Chicago, so there's no need to worry about how you'll get here! ------------------------------------------------ *Hack the Interview*, a coding contest built specifically for university students looking for jobs and internships. High-scoring participants in the contest may be considered for open and future roles with our partner companies. Students can also win prizes worth up to $1,000. For those who already have a position secured for this summer, this contest is a great way to brush up on skills and get a head start for next year. The next contest will begin March 13 at 12 p.m. EST / 9 a.m. PDT. Learn more and sign up here . ------------------------------------------------ *Apply for a 2020 ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference Scholarship TODAY!* The *Tapia Conference* provides conference travel scholarships for students (community college/undergraduate/graduate) and post-docs at colleges and universities in the U.S and U.S. Territories. The conference also offers a limited number of scholarships for faculty and post-docs at Minority Serving Institutions. Scholarships include conference registration, meals during the conference, hotel accommodations,and a reimbursable travel stipend. Tapia scholarships are generously funded by government and industry organizations. Scholarships are reviewed by volunteers from industry and academia. Students submitting a poster or to the doctoral consortium as part of the Tapia *Call For Participation* (CFP) need to submit their scholarship applications by the CFP deadline. *Tapia 2019 Scholarship Application Deadlines*: - *Poster and Doctoral Consortium Program Submitters: March 9th 11:59 pm PT * - *General Tapia Scholarship Applicants: March 27th 11:59 pm PT* *Apply for a Tapia Scholarship Today!* Cheers! *Michelle Nguyen* Vice President | ACM at UIC -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: