CS @ uWaterloo announcements

Google has a number of scholarship programs aimed at students who are underrepresented in computing. Their objective is to inspire and help students become future leaders in computing and technology by breaking down the barriers that prevent them from entering these fields. If selected, scholarship  recipients will each receive a $5,000 CAD scholarship for the 2018-2019 academic year and be invited to attend the annual Google Scholars' Retreat at  the Googleplex next summer. See below for a list of open scholarships: Women Techmakers Scholars Program (formerly known as the Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship) Scholarship) is open to current female undergraduate or graduate students who will be studying at a university in the United States or Canada graduate students who will be studying at a university in the United States or Canada for the 2018-2019 academic year. D eadline: December 11, 2017 Generation Google Scholarship is open to current undergraduate or gra...

There are several high schools in our area that would like to offer computer programming clubs for their students but need help. They have a teacher who is willing to handle the administrative aspects * of running a club, but need somebody with programming expertise to teach coding skills. We are running a pilot project this fall to connect volunteers and schools. If you have programming skills and would like to volunteer, please come to our information session : When : October 18. Tour of Google at 6pm, information session at 7pm. Where : Google - 51 Breithaupt Street, Kitchener Ontario What : Discussion between volunteers, teachers , and students including those that have participated in programming clubs. Who : Prospective volunteers, teachers , and students that are interested in running or participating in programming clubs in high schools. Let us know you’re coming - sign up here: https://goo.gl/forms/WF5mV2aYaCw...

Do you love technology? Do you have fun solving problems? Do you believe that programming is more than just a job? If your answer is yes to the above questions, we would like to invite you to meet Geru. A Geru, a fintech [1], and is looking for Python developers. [1]   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fintech How about joining our team in Brazil? Experience a new culture and be part of an exciting fintech company that since 2015 is disrupting Brazil´s personal loan market through modern technology.    If you are talented, curious, and believe in and love technology, we want you! We develop financial products and have many new projects to evolve our systems (micro-services architecture). Our main platform is based on Python / Pyramid, but we have systems on many other platforms. Are you a geek in love with programming? Some technologies used in our stack: Python, Services AWS (Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, etc), MongoDB, Celery, PostgreSQL, Dock...

Innovate in cybersecurity for a chance to win $20,000. Gain real-world experience during this three-week challenge by stepping outside of the classroom with your student-led team to tackle a unique technical challenge. DETAILS: Teams must register by October 13, 2017 Free to participate. For details on the competition and to sign-up your team, contact:  student.championship@thalesgroup.com

Computer Science Upper Year Course Information Session Information on all fourth-year and optional third-year courses. Differences among courses explained. Advice on preparation for upper-year specialization (e.g. what courses to choose to prepare for graphics, AI). Monday, October 16, 2017 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. DC 1302 *Refreshments will be provided*