Thursday, April 7, 2016

2016 NYC Computer Science Fair

     Today (04/07/2016) we went to Armory for 2016 computer science fair with sophomore and junior class of web design and apple with 101 crew(students,teachers,parents,consular)First time we arrived to the armory we waited for a while because there were another schools and a huge line.After we got in they gave us student card.We went to upstairs and we had lunch.After we ate something I went to fair.It was so cool.There was a lot of compony representatives like Facebook, Microsoft, Aol., Wework, Devpost, some college representatives like from Massachusetts Worcester Polytechnic Institute, West Point, Binghamton University, Queens Brough College, Tandon School Of Engineering, and etc... Also we had opportunity to find some programs like CodeNow which teaches how to coding for example "ALL STAR CODE", Facebook University. First
time when I get in I talked to representative of WPI it was really nice because by seeing that college's representative helped me to find one more college to apply in November. Then I talked to with one of the West Point teacher, It was also educational conversation for me because I wasn't sure about if west point had computer science program also I got some information about cyber (hacking) classes to.After I talked with West point I almost talked to with all the tables like NYU, Devpoint, Wework, and etc.. but for me the most interested ones were to talk to with Facebook and "All Star CODE",because my one of the goal were to find a program that teaches computer programming and they were doing the same thing.Facebook lately created some that called Facebook University.They have eight week summer training programs and teaching people programming, designing.They were looking for people that would help Facebook to improve it self.Around 1 pm we started to get ready to leave.I wish we had chance to stay some more so I could've talk to more companies or schools and get more information.I tried to talk as much as table in couple hour I believe this fair one of the most important fair and gave us a lot of opportunities.