CS @ uWaterloo announcements

Axonaly is a wellness-minded social venture based at the University of Toronto creating wearable assistive technology for anxiety and panic attacks. As part of our holistic approach to mental health and wellness and in response to the past year's many challenges, we have curated Wellness Week: a series of virtual activity spaces that provide students and recent grads with a mental hygiene refresh. The series includes a variety of innovative and exciting workshops that will run between April 2nd - 9th, 2021. We're providing UberEats gift cards for the Lunch & Learn workshop and Deserres gift cards for the Painting workshop, as well as Prize draws for all registered participants!   You can register at the following link: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/axonaly-wellness-event-series-tickets-

Registration for Bitcamp, UMD’s flagship hackathon has opened! Bitcamp is a 36-hour hackathon experience at the University of Maryland, College Park taking place virtually this year from April 9-11.  Join us and 1400+ hackers around the campfire for a weekend-long creative coding marathon. If you're a beginner, don't worry: there will be numerous coding workshops, mentors, and mini-events offered too!  Apply now at https://bit.camp/apply ! You can also sign-up to volunteer ( https://bit.camp/volunteer ), mentor ( https://bit.camp/mentor ), or host a workshop ( https://bit.camp/workshops )! For more information, visit our website at https://bit.camp , or email us at hello@bit.camp .

HackDartmouth Vi rtual will be happening virtually on  April 16-18th, 2021 !  Join us from all around the globe 🌎 to build an amazing project in just 24 hours. Our mission is to connect, challenge and inspire. Bring your passions and experiment with students of all experience levels and backgrounds. 🎉 You'll have the opportunity to create something cool with a team of hackers. Create something big and also have the chance for swag, and prizes! The sign-up application is  now open  on  our website .  If you have any questions, send us an email at  questions@hackdartmouth.io .

GreenHouse  is a community for innovators who want to create social or environmental change. The Social Innovator in Training Program runs students through a series of milestones to start their idea for social or environment change through our 12 week training program.  Students who apply and are accepted to the Social Innovator in Training Program work with other like-minded innovators interested in creating social or environmental change through their own project or venture. Students coming into this program usually have a problem they are interested in tackling or an idea they want to launch. Being part of the program gives you milestones to move your ideas into action, access to core mentors including the professional networks at GreenHouse, and access to funding opportunities to move your ideas forward. This can be done within a course or as co-curricular activity. Interested students are encouraged to visit our  website  to learn more. Deadline to apply ...

The NanoString Spatial Omics Hackathon, not only, has some great prizes up for grabs, but allows you to utilize different skills from data science to machine learning and data visualization to help scientists learn more about a large kidney dataset assembled by NanoString’s GeoMx Digital Spatial Profiler. Goal : Build an open source solution that can help scientists interpret data and learn new things from a large kidney dataset assembled by NanoString’s GeoMx Digital Spatial Profiler. Prizes: $25,000 in prizes Deadline: May 3 5:00PM EDT Join the Hackathon: https://bit.ly/NanoString21u  ******************************************************************* Here are more hackathons for students listed by submission deadline: Mar 15 (Theme: ML/AI, Social Good) - Microsoft Azure U.S. Hack for Accessibility (U.S. Only) Apr 4 (Theme: Fintech, Social Good) - Build an unbiased fintech future Apr 5 (Theme: ML/AI) - Azure AI Hackathon 2021 Apr 6 (Theme: Blockchain, Fintech) - EOSIO Hackathon...

The Cheriton School of Computer Science has hoodies now and are available at the W Store . Sizes from XS to 2XL. Cost is $49.99 Cdn, plus shipping and tax.  Get one for yourself or as a present for someone else, and show your CS pride!

Surf the Waves with ASSET (Advanced Secured  Sensor Enabling Technologies)  from May 28 to August 4, 2021.  The application early action deadline is March 5, 2021 and regular deadline is April 15, 2021 or until positions are filled. The Summer 2021 REU SITE of Florida International University Research Experience for Undergraduates in Advanced Secured Sensor Enabling Technologies spans ten weeks, May 28- August 4 2021, offers research and professional development opportunities for 10 undergraduate students. Available research projects share the theme of advanced secured sensor enabling technologies and span several exciting areas such as     * Trajectory Privacy Preservation in Mobile Sensor Networks,     * Privacy & Secure Social Sensor Networks,     * Mobile Video Authenticity Verifications     * Search Rank Validation for Social Media     * A Software Library for Visualizing Large Sc...