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WoCCode Webinar Events

Lia Corrales edited this page Feb 28, 2023 · 17 revisions

This page hosts the schedule for the WoCCode webinars

WoCCode 3.0 (2023)

April 2023

WoCCode Hack Webinar: Make a Tiny Game

April 13, 2023 – 11:00 EST (15:00 UTC)

Presenter: Ruofei Li

Open to WoCCode participants only

Click her for flier

March 2023

Tuesday, March 21, 2023 - 11:00 EST (15:00 UTC)

Guest Speaker: Priya Donti (Co-founder and Executive Director of Climate Change AI)

Registration Required: Go to the event page

February 2023

WoCCode Webinar: Make a Tiny Game

RESCHEDULED for April

Presenter: Ruofei Li

Open to WoCCode participants only

January 2022

Guest Speaker: Himadri Chhaya-Shailesh

Friday, January 20, 2023 - 11:00 EST (Open to the public)

Registration Required: Go to the event page

WoCCode Town Hall

Thursday, January 12, 2023 - 11:00 EST

Open to WoCCode participants only

October 2022

Wednesday, October 12, 12:00 - 13:00 EDT

Guest Speaker: Edafe Onerhime (Data Architecture Governance Lead at JP Morgan Chase)

Registration Required: Click here for event page and to register.

August 2022 SPECIAL WORKSHOP

Saturday, August 17, 13:00 - 17:00 UTC (9:00 EDT)

WoCCode Special Workshop: How to build a static website on Github Pages

Hosted by WoCCode mentor Mariana Meireles

Webinar's Debrief: Click her for the webinar's debrief blog written by Mariana Meireles

Webinar's Presentation: Build your own static website

August 2022

Tuesday, August 23, 16:00 UTC (13:00 EDT)

Guest Speaker: Laura G. Funderburk

Registration Required: Click here for event page and to register.

July 2022

Wednesday, July 13, 16:00 UTC (13:00 EDT)

Guest Speaker: Danni Youziel

Registration Required: Click here for event page

June 2022

June 15, 16:00 UTC

Guest Speaker: Danni Youziel

CANCELLED due to illness. Webinar moved to July.

May 2022

May 24, 15:00 UTC

Internal Webinar: WoCCode Hack Project Kick-off

April 2022

April 20, 16:00 UTC (12:00 EDT)

Guest Webinar: Kelle Cruz (Associate Professor, Hunter College CUNY and AMNH)

Registration Required: Click here for event page

March 2022

Internal Webinar: WoCCode 2.0 kick-off and code-sharing

Code shared:

February 2022

Guest Speaker: Jessa Challa (CEO, Mallowfields)

Registration required: Click here for event page

Jessa created a website to highlight minority owned businesses in her local area (Grand Rapids, MI):

WoCCode 2021

January 2021: Kick-off webinar!

Scheduled date and time:

  • Weds Jan 20, 7 am EST (12:00 GMT) - Cohorts 4-5 and people who cannot do Monday

  • Mon Jan 25, 5 pm EST (22:00 GMT) - Cohort 1-3 and people who could not do Wednesday

Agenda

  1. Introduction to WoCCode and why I created it (20 minutes) - L. Corrales
  2. Breakout groups with icebreaker questions (20 minutes)
  3. Group share, comprehensive introductions (10 minutes)
  4. Live demo: fork, clone, branch, and open a pull request on Github (10 minutes)

February 2021: First guest webinar speaker

Guest Speaker: Michelle Lochner

Time: Feb 23, 6 pm South Africa time

March 2021

Speaker:

Mariana Meireles (Mentor self-intro + intro to algorithm questions)

Slides, Resources

Time: Monday March 22 at 16:00 UTC

April 2021

Guest Speaker: Karen Shea

Time: Friday, April 23, 16:00 UTC

Introduction to Karen's path into coding and her experience contributing to the open source codebase for Inkscape

May 2021

James Chibueze (Mentor self-intro + intro to ins/outs of MeerKAT data)

Time: Friday May 21 at 16:00 UTC

June 2021

Guest Speaker: Camille Avestruz (University of Michigan, Physics)

Approximate Time: Tuesday June 3, 12:00 pm EST

July 2021

Code sharing webinar!

Lia Corrales: How I use object-oriented programming for everyday research tasks

Link to slides

Link to Jupyter Notebook template

Crisel Suarez: Making a movie of the Sun!

Link to Crisel's github repo for presentations

Link to Collab presentation

August 2021

Guest Speaker: Rodolfo Montez, Jr.

Approximate Time: August 23 or 27, 16:00 UTC

September 2021

Code-sharing webinar

Natalia: Scraping websites with Python and Terminal tricks with comm

October 2021

Guest Speaker: Anel Guel (Mallowfield)

November 2021

WoCCode Town Hall and code share