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Make School is canceling classes on Monday and Tuesday this week to provide a Civic Engagement Break to students and staff. We extend our call to the community - If you can vote, please vote! Check vote.org to find out more about your state’s voting policies and the polling places you can vote at. They also offer important resources, including ballot drop-off locations, ways to check your voter registration, and nonpartisan voter guides. And one important reminder as we end t...his unprecedented election cycle: No matter the outcome of this election we are in the best position to fight for a better future if we are all able to stay mentally healthy and kind. Take care of yourselves and each other! by Glen Carrie on Unsplash

We’re going to be Live again on Instagram tomorrow (Wednesday, October 28) at 6pm Pacific Time! Join instructor Jessamyn Dahmen and current senior Jessica Trinh as they discuss Make School, software engineering, and the tech industry. Don’t forget to tune in on our Instagram channel (https://www.instagram.com/make_school/) and remember to bring your questions

Can you solve this week's puzzle? ------ The Thousand Doors A high school has a strange principal. On the first day, she has her students perform an odd opening day ceremony:... There are one thousand lockers and one thousand students in the school. The principal asks the first student to go to every locker and open it. Then she has the second student go to every second locker and close it. The third goes to every third locker and, if it is closed, they open it, and if it is open, they close it. The fourth student does this to every fourth locker, and so on. After the process is completed with the thousandth student, how many lockers are open? ------ Stay tuned for the answer next week! by Robert Anasch on Unsplash | Puzzle from http://www.pzzls.com/

On Saturday, November 7, we're hosting a Computer Science Community Showcase! The goal of the Showcase is to inform, inspire, and empower the next generation to pursue Computer Science as a tool to uplift communities and tackle global challenges. You’ll get the chance to interact with professional coders, dive into the world of code through workshops, and build community with peers and mentors. Learn how to attend this amazing all-day event at https://bit.ly/2HquNW7

Students just finished their Fall Intensive Projects this week as a culmination of everything they’ve learned in Term 1! We were so excited to hear the pitches of their first products of the year (and for juniors, their first products ever!) We’ll be sharing a selection of their projects over the next few weeks, so stay tuned

We’re thrilled to partner with FIRST to provide a scholarship opportunity to FIRST participants and alumni! FIRST is an international youth organization that operates the FIRST Robotics Competition among other science and technology-focused challenges. We love partnering with organizations that are dedicated to rewarding and empowering young students towards success within science and technology! Learn more about our scholarship here: https://bit.ly/2H4Cbqo

Congratulations to the @teentechsf team for running another amazing Civic Hackathon. Make School student mentors loved building community and working with the young coders to help them bring their ideas to light. We’d also like to give a special shoutout to the winning teams for their creativity in tackling global issues: 1st Place - Decrypt, tool to help detect emotional affect... 2nd Place - Virtuschool, solutions to improve the online learning experience 3rd Place - EcoWay, social gamification to address climate change #hackathon #technology #studentmentors #community

TeenTechSF’s mission is to empower the next generation of tech innovators and civic entrepreneurs through equal access to tech for all teens. Run by and for teens, all events are free! Make School has proudly supported the TeenTechSF community for years and we are excited to bring that same energy to their online Civic Hackathon this weekend. Make School students will be mentoring the middle and high school hackathon teams all weekend as well as offering a special student panel to share insights into life as a Make School student.

Meet recent graduate Sukhrob Golibboev, who is originally from Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Sukhrob just recently started as a full-time Software Engineer at Microsoft and wants to grow professionally and personally there so he can eventually give back to the communities that supported him on his journey. Sukhrob has always been into science and new technology but didn’t know which path to choose. When he first came to San Francisco 5 years ago, he was initially studying math at a c...ommunity college. A close friend recommended an introductory CS class, and it got Sukhrob interested in how software can improve people’s lives. Sukhrob’s favorite Make School memories involve playing ping-pong with friends after spending long hours in the Quiet Room grinding away at coding challenges. He’s had so much fun at Make School - he had never previously been in a community as friendly, safe, and welcoming as Make school. He feels the community is like a family. His advice to future students is to Be curious always. And if you’re thinking of giving up, DON’T! I had times I thought coding is not for me, or I am not smart enough. But I kept continuing to learn. Lastly, never stop seeking help and also offering your help to others.

We’ve been celebrating LatinX Heritage Month (September 15 - October 15) this year by highlighting for our community the contributions of LatinX students, faculty, mentors, and partners. Today, we’re excited to highlight iOS Instructor, Adriana Gonzalez. Swipe to read her story! #latinxheritagemonth #college

Check out this new episode of The Positivity Podcast from faculty member Dan Morse! Here’s a summary of the episode: Having more choices is good right? Barry Schwartz thinks otherwise. His 2004 book The Paradox of Choice, tackles one of the great mysteries of modern life: Why is it that societies of great abundance where individuals are offered more freedom and choice (personal, professional, material) than ever before are now witnessing a near-epidemic of depression.... In this episode of The Positivity Podcast, Barry Schwartz and Make School instructor Dan Morse discuss a practical framework for making life choices and tools to help us think less about the things that shouldn't be a priority. Listen now on SoundCloud: https://bit.ly/36zeWPE Photo by Agence Olloweb on Unsplash

Last Saturday marked our second virtual graduation for the 2020 class! We were thrilled that over 100 students, staff, and family/friends were able to tune in to support and celebrate our graduates. It was wonderful to reminisce about the challenges faced and memories made by this amazing group of students. We can't wait to watch them soar - congrats Class of 2020 Fall Graduates! Read the full summary at https://make.sc/fall-grad-recap. Image #1: Some of the attendees during ...last Saturday's virtual graduation. Image #2: Some of our excited graduates last Saturday. Image #3: Graduation speaker, Dean Dr. Anne Spalding. Other speakers included the Make School founders and faculty members like Dan Morse - who is our Instructor Manager for Early Learning. Image #4: We sent all our graduates a little graduation gift filled with Make School swag like a custom alumni sweater and mug, as well as a yearbook to commemorate their time at Make School. They opened their gifts together during graduation. Image #5: Reflections from our students on their time at Make School and on the graduation event. Image #6: After graduation, attendees enjoyed a virtual party with founder Ashu Desai as the DJ. We utilized the awesome platform SpacialChat that provides an easy way to create virtual events!

Join us for an interactive online info session this Wednesday, September 30, at 5:00 PM PT. The event will feature our awesome instructors and our amazing co-founder, Jeremy Rossmann, as they offer a chance to experience classes at Make School. No prior coding knowledge or special equipment needed for this session! Plus - get all your questions about Fall 2021 answered! Link in bio to register.... #college #computerscience #softwareengineering #projectbased

Meet Raymond Wu, who is graduating this fall and is originally from Los Angeles! He is passionate about technology because he loves the things that you can do with machine learning and other technologies as they apply to the physical sciences - for example, computer vision as it applies to cryo-EM in the medical field; or predicting core samples in geology. Before Make School, Raymond was doing brand protection work at a private investigations firm where his day-to-day was ma...king web scrapers to find counterfeits. He was making databases, creating heatmaps, and finding illicit activities. It got him to wonder what else he could do with the data and that's what led him down the journey to find CS and Make School. Raymond’s favorite memory from his time at the program is definitely the 2 Halloween photoshoots that he did. He did one photoshoot for the humans of Make School and one for the dogs :P What’s next for Raymond: right now I'm at an internship working on an Uber library called Kepler.gl and Deck.gl through Codelabs. I've got a presentation at the end of the month that I hope will turn into a new grad offer but I'm currently applying to various other places in case it doesn’t! For more words of wisdom from Raymond, go to https://make.sc/student-advice!