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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

Project Summary: The era of the industrial internet has the potential to disrupt the global economy in a scale larger than any previous industrial revolution. The big technological advancement: The Internet of Things (IoT) or the Internet of Everything (IoE) has the potential to change the way we live and work, and create a significant economic impact on society (Advertising Week, December 15, 2017). At SOTI, we are developing a system for managing commercial / industrial IoT devices. Meta-data descriptions of devices, messages and protocols are used to generate a user interface on-the-fly so that the system can be extended to support new devices without writing new code (either by us or by the device manufacturer). Job Responsibilities: - We are looking for a student intern to be a full-time scrum team member for our IoT device management product from May to August 2018. - As a scrum team member, the student will be responsible for developing, unit testing, and integration test...

An NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA) may be for you! The goal of the program is to  stimulate your interest in research and to encourage you to pursue a graduate studies degree. If you would like to gain research work experience that complements your studies in an academic setting, this award provides you with financial support to do. DETAILS Must have completed one full year of school before starting the USRA, i.e., 2A or higher (students can be in 1B when they apply, and students can do a USRA in the term immediately after degree completion but not later than this) Full-time (35 hours per week) for 16 consecutive weeks (80 working days) Can be counted as a co-op work term $4,500 plus supervisor’s contribution of $835 per month or $3,340 per term is recommended. Must have a 72% cumulative average or higher NEXT STEPS Find a supervisor You and your potential supervisor need to complete the online application forms by Wednesday April 4, 2018. ...