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Kids Code Jeunesse is a Canadian not for profit organization dedicated to empowering children, teachers, and parents with the skills we all need to thrive in a technology-driven society. By bringing digital learning experiences into the classroom and in communities, we teach Canadians how to be better thinkers and better creators in a digital world. Kids Code Jeunesse is on a mission to shake-up the digital education landscape for Canadians one classroom and one community at a time, and we need your help to do it. KCJ is a dynamic and extremely supportive work environment where all ideas and opinions are welcomed. We are looking for enthusiastic and innovative team players who want to help us empower Canadians to be better thinkers and better creators in an increasingly digital world. KCJ is currently looking for multiple positions: 1) a community developer, someone who will be able to grow their network and promote the organization within the community and 2) instructors who would...

The Horizons Fellowship supports 200 outstanding university students in their pursuit to become multidisciplinary leaders using technology. Our fully-funded program provides real-world technology courses geared towards high-achieving college students. Horizons students have gone onto work at a variety of amazing companies - Google, Facebook, Visa, The Stanford Research Institute, Slack, Yelp, Amazon, McKinsey, Bloomberg, J.P. Morgan, EA Games , and more. Past Horizonites have come from a variety of schools and backgrounds. Students have hailed from Harvard, Princeton, Yale, UPenn/Wharton, Columbia, Northwestern, Brown, Michigan, state schools, community colleges and more. The world is becoming multidisciplinary in nature. We've had computer science majors, math majors, economics/business majors, biology majors, english majors, and art majors all take our program. Interested students can start an application here!

The drop deadline for a WD with 50% refund has been moved to Friday, February 23 from Tuesday, February 20. This was prompted by the Quest upgrade because the system is unavailable from February 16 at 4:30 pm until February 22 at 8:00 am (EST). 

CryptoWorks21 would like to invite you to the lunch and learn session with Richard Brisson on Tuesday, Feb 27  at noon in QNC1501 .  It will be a 45-minute presentation followed by a question/answer period.  The session will finish no later than 1:30pm. Please RSVP by Feb 16th https://www.ticketfi.com/event/2156/lunch-and-learn-with-richard-brisson Experiences as a Crypto-Mathematician at CSE This talk will focus on the speaker's experience as a crypto-mathematician and, to a lesser degree, as a manager during his career at CSE which spanned from 1980 to 2011. A diversity of (unclassified or declassified!) topics to be discussed will include CSE itself yesterday and today, understanding the essence and scope of CSE's mandates, understanding the Canadian Intelligence and Security organizations, the various fields of mathematics which are of potential benefits to cryptology, the benefits of computational mathematics and optimization,   understanding th...

Seeking a tech-savvy co-founder to be the developer of a new platform to disrupt the world of amateur sports!  Requirements  Seeking a senior level student Strong web development skills Ability to translate concepts into effective code Troubleshoot and maintain the web-based platform Basic UI development capabilities Prepared for lots of bulk coding as you will be the first hands-on and building this program from the ground up We have a tech consultant who will help you through the nitty gritty details.  About me: I have half a decade in the startup space, from working with a VC to sales at a startup to launching and scaling my own company. I am looking to build out this new platform with a strong tech co-founder. For more information or to discuss this opportunity, please contact Glen Smyth -  glensmyth@appleflatsfoods.com