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Reshma Saujani
Reshma Saujani is an American lawyer and politician. She was born in Illinois and went to University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for majors in Political Science and Speech Communication. She attended John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University for a Masters Degree in Public Policy and Yale Law School for a Juris Doctor…
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Ann Mei Chang
former USAID Chief Innovation Officer Ann Mei Chang first began her career as a Senior Engineering Director at Google where she led the product development team for Emerging Markets. After 20 years in Silicon Valley, Chang moved her direction to the social and public sector as she served as Chief Innovation Officer at Mercy Corps…
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Anant Agarwal
Anant Agarwal is the CEO of edX, an online learning platform offering free courses founded by Harvard and MIT. Agarwal began edX by teaching an online course on circuits and electronics from MIT, which drew 155,000 students from 162 countries. He has also served as the director of CSAIL, MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence…
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Luis Von Ahn
You probably have been annoyed sometimes by the random distorted characters that websites force you to type so they recognize you as a real person. Maybe, you have also tried to learn a language for fun outside of class using the free language-learning app Duolingo. Then, you might want to know about Luis von Ahn,…
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Freeman Hrabowski
President of UMBC Freeman A. Hrabowski is dedicated to educating minorities in the field of science. His science program has become one of the most envied programs in the country. The college’s Meyerhof Scholars program was dedicated to black men. However, It’s prestige has enabled opportunities for applicants of any ethnicity. He was named Time magazine’s 2012…
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Salman Khan
As the founder of Khan Academy, American educator and mathematician Salman Khan started his life in Louisiana where he lived and attended public schools before graduating as the valedictorian of his high school. Khan attended the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received a bachelor’s degree in math and a master’s degree in computer…
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Allison Esposito Medina
Tech Ladies started as a small group of people that met at a coffee shop in 2015. Now, it’s a worldwide community with 50,000 members. It was founded by Allison Esposito Medina who wanted to build a community that would help build a more diverse culture in tech and bridge the gender gap. Allison Esposito…
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Kimberly Bryant
Founder and Executive Director of Black Girls Code Kimberly Bryant was first introduced to computer programming during her freshman year at Vanderbilt University, where she majored in Electrical Engineering. During her time at Vanderbilt, Bryant became aware of a noticeable lack of people that looked like her in her classrooms. Understanding that the absence was…
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Creating Shapes with Adobe Illustrator
Learn how to make shapes by using Adobe Illustrator. Participants will learn about layers, backgrounds, shape tools, and how to export their design. Agenda 1. Layers Making Create artboards b. Introduce to Layers Create Layers Change Layers order Make background Shapes Making Rectangle, Eclipse, … tools Resize shapes and add colors Use of color guide…
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Machine Learning and Patterns
By Pavithra Brahmananda Reddy Machine learning is quite the buzzword these days. In simple terms, it’s used to predict what kinds of ads you should see, the products you would be interested in buying, and also what movies you would like to watch. There is seemingly no end to the list of applications that machine learning can have today. People keep finding new…