YoungInnovations Weekly #75: Innovators@Meet-ups, Introducing Peer Reward, Code Kata, Celebrating Birthdays, International Hakathon, Data-Driven Farming Prize, New War Room
Whether it be learning, networking, seeking new recruitments, tech-based meet-ups are emerging as ideal places for such opportunities. It has been a busy weekend for K-town’s IT Crowd with three meet-ups. A bunch of our innovators attended those events. It was evident that tech professionals and students are attending such events in large numbers as the number of participation has significantly increased than the past.
Developers Nepal Meet-up #4 @Fusemachines
Two of our innovators, Geshan and Rakeeb were presenter/moderator and panelist respectively. Geshan mesmerized the crowd with his short presentation on the topic titled as ‘Things I Wished I Knew as a Junior #Developer’. It was very thoughtful topic based on his experience and everyone present there could easily relate to what he expressed. Follow the link things-i-wished-i-knew-as-a-junior-developer-slides to view his presentation slides. Our android protagonist, Rakeeb was a part of a panel discussion on the topic titled ‘Automated Tests, are they important?’. It was an interesting topic as all the panelist put up some valid points/arguments about automated testing from their experiences.
A short reminder, Fusemachines are offering AI fellowship program for those of you interested in learning Artificial Intelligence.
GIT Meetup #3 @Logpoint
GIT as in ‘Girls in Technology’ is a very active community for girls and women involved in tech industry of Nepal. Our UI/UX Diva Sweta (sweta) talked about her career journey with interesting topic ‘Believe in Yourself’. As usual, she succeeded on encouraging the participants with her passion in UI/ UX development. Also, she was one of the panelists in a panel discussion.
Docker Meetup
Raju attended an event ‘Talk/Q&A with Thomas Buckley-Houston’ at Academia International College, Gwarko. The talk was about Docker which covered a bunch of interesting topics such as limitations of molecules in CPUs, parallelism & concurrency, virtual machines, best practices in Docker and Twelve Factor App Manifesto.
Alumni Leadership Camp
Saroj participated in the Alumni Leadership Camp aimed at strengthening US exchange alumni community through networking which was organized by Nepal Association of Humphrey Fellows with the support of American Embassy in Nepal on February 5. He showcased the Earthquake Response: Transparency Portal and stressed more on the use of the data to ensure that the funds reach the earthquake victims.
Birthdays
This week, Prawesh and Kiran celebrated their birthdays with us. We wish them a great year ahead and better builds and successful tests. #talkingGeeky.
Time for a Code Kata
Taking up the challenge put forward by Geshan, most of our innovators, paired in two, participated in Code Kata. It was a short and easy challenge through which he aimed for our developers in learning edge cases in testing and, of course, sharpen their skills. Interested what Code Kata is all about? Click on the link below to get started with:
https://www.codewars.com/kata/check-the-string-tense/train/javascript
Peer Reward System
On Tuesday, Sanjeena (sanjeena) introduced ‘Peer Reward System’ here in office. Each innovator can nominate a fellow innovator as a jolly good fellow. The nominated jolly good fellow will be rewarded in the end of the month.
International Hackathon
On Saturday, Anjesh (anjesh), Anjan (anjhero) and Manish are leaving for London to represent YoungInnovations in ‘Open Ag Funding: Tool Design Challenge and Accelerator’ between February 13 to 16. It is a 4-day hackathon, for software development teams from around the world, is organized by InterAction in partnership with Development Gateway, the Foundation Center, Publish What You Fund, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Open Data Services.
All the best, guys!!!
Data-Driven Farming Prize
On Thursday, Anjan (anjhero) took part in USAID’s event, ‘Data-Driven Farming Prize’ at Yala Maya Kendra, Patan Dhoka. The prize is seeking tools and approaches that source, analyze and translate data into actionable, timely and context-specific information for smallholder farmers to improve value from agricultural productivity.
New WAR Room
Our new ‘War Room’ is ready for our squads to focus on while working on projects. The room is filled with plenty of white boards and other supplies for the squad to use. The room is built for project sprint planning, design discussion, and many more which need a lot of brainstorming and heavy discussions.
Funny moment@ YoungInnovations
On Wednesday during lunch, Maroon 5’s fans were spotted. It was a ‘Maroon (almost) 5’ moment, only Adam Levine was missing.
All in all it has been eventful and interesting week at YoungInnovations. Wish you a happy weekend.
