TechOlympics 2020 Workshops
Introduction to Blockchain and Cryptocurrency
Career Path BINGO
A game to explore tech career path options while competing with your fellow students. If you cover your BINGO card, you will be eligible to win SWAG!
No sign up is needed, just show up!
5pm – 6pm Saturday 23rd
Lockpicking Crash Course
Intro to Javascript
Intro to Python
App Development
Contributing to an open source github project
Hows and whys of open source – the philosophy of the open source community
Creating a github account
Developing a digital portfolio – why a digital portfolio is important
A bit about Abre and how it was developed and why it is open source
Divide into teams to brainstorm ideas to bring back on Sunday
Must signup for both workshop and competition
Intro to Spring - Workshop
Full-Stack Workshop
Golang is a modern language created at Google that is used to build application servers, databases, command line tools, and much more.
Agile Is About People
When you begin your professional career, it might surprise you to find that you haven’t changed that much since you were a student at TechOlympics. We all want the same thing- work that is challenging, opportunities to learn and grow, the support of teams, and the ability to control our own time and make decisions.
In this session, we’re going to break down Agile a bit and show you how Agile helps create an environment like this, and why it’s a big reason IT teams adopt Agile. Sure, it’s great for the business results too, but we are going to focus on the impact to people. We’ll use a couple of demonstrations to highlight how autonomy, self-organization, and independence create more successful workflows, and we’ll break into teams so you have an opportunity to feel what it’s like to be on an Agile team and create a product.
Intro to Unity
Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Pokemon
Will Artificial Intelligence take over the world? Let’s see, starting with Pokemon.
We will start by reviewing what Machine Learning is and how it is used. We will show the process of building a model that make decisions.
The participants will then, using the power of the Cloud, AI and Machine Learning,build a Pokemon detector and have [somewhat] epic battles. You will learn to train and test a computer vision algorithm with machine learning. This computer vision algorithm will then be used for world/room domination. May the best AI win!!!
Prerequisites
A basic understand of programming languages concepts and software development will be helpful. (We will be using Javascript in this competition.)
Running Applications in the Cloud with Pivotal Web Services
This session aims to educate students about existing Pivotal Services that can be utilized to develop/publish applications. The session will showcase a handmade application by Jordan that aims to teach students how to deploy to Pivotal Services and in turn share their application with the world. A short Q/A session will follow the demonstration.
