My second year participating in the contest. Plan to make refactoring my business plan every year. This year using Business Model Canvas to organize my thoughts before writing a 20 page business plan for this competition.
After being recruited to the HISPA Role Model Program, I gave a presentation at Manhattan Bridges High School to students who are interested in the field of software engineering.
What you are most proud of from the past 3 months in the Challenge course?
One, being chosen
I was always a little intimidated by JavaScript when I first started using it in 1995. The e-commerce startup company I was working at bet the farm on Java over JavaScript. They built their core product, a shopping cart, using Java not JavaScript. At that time JavaScript had a pretty bad reputation in the firm. And that sentiment about JavaScript has lingered with me all this time until I completed this course.
After graduating Pace University with an Associates Degree in Arts and Sciences and a Computer Science Certificate, I enrolled in City College of New York (CCNY) of the City University of New York (CUNY) to pursue a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering. CCNY provided two great programs called IBM Cooperative Education Program and the CCNY-China Foreign Exchange Scholarship.
CCNY-China Exchange Scholarship offered me a chance to study Chinese language and culture for in Sun Yat Sen University in Guangzhou China.
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Everybody should learn to code. If this sounds strange to you, try to imagine the people that fought against illiteracy, not much time ago. Probably their ideas sounded strange to many, back then. Nowadays, having quite won against illiteracy, we face a new form of it: code illiteracy. People that don’t know how to code are code illiterate. Code literacy enables a great power, a power of freedom.
