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Project FOOBAR Mentor Recruitment

July 12, 2021
We are putting the call out to all Hamilton development professionals to act as mentors for Mohawk College Software Development students as we work through our first ever student-run open source…
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7 Habits of Highly Awesome Mentees

July 12, 2021
We've all likely been students or employees for many years off and on in our lives, but mentorship can be a different experience. A mentorship is a voluntary, mutually-agreed upon relationship to…
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Project FOOBAR Update

June 16, 2021
Just a quick little update: After a spirited brainstorming session, the crew voted on GATE HOPPER as the game we'll be building. We also decided to build this as a client-side-only application using…
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Project Foobar Idea: Safe Haven

May 10, 2021
Name: Safe Haven (working title) Target Audience: Employees and Social Workers in Transitional Housing Facilities The Challenge: Residential care facilities that provide transitional housing to at…
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Project Foobar Idea: Kids Can Code

May 10, 2021
Name: Kids Can Code Target Audience: Elementary School Students (K-12) The Challenge: The Ontario government has added coding to the K-12 curriculum but most teachers don’t know much about coding to…
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Project Foobar Idea: What's Your Path

May 10, 2021
Name: What’s Your Path Target Audience: Students in grades 7+ The Challenge: Young people are struggling to plan ahead, and as a result do not feel optimistic about their futures. They are not given…
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Project Foobar Idea: Mathstronauts

May 10, 2021
Name: Mathstronauts Target Audience: Students in grades 5-12 The Challenge: Currently, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, students have had to switch to remote learning. This switch has revealed inequity…
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Project Foobar Idea: HWCDSB

May 10, 2021
Name: [Undecided] Target audience: High school graduates of the Hamilton Wentworth Catholic District School Board The Challenge: As students graduate and leave high school, we often don’t have a…
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Project FOOBAR

April 25, 2021
It is time. Late last year we were chatting with some folks from Weever on how we might be able to team up on events and other TND activities, and I think it was Jenifer Champagne who suggested…
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How to make your first open-source contribution

October 13, 2020
Contributing to open source projects can be a great way to show off in an interview - it demonstrates initiative, teamwork, and real-world experience. It's also a great place to start if you have no…
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Hiring Is Not Hazing

October 07, 2019
Interviews are a gambit, for both parties involved. Both must trust in the process set up by the company and the hiring manager to select the candidate best suited for the job, but so often that…
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How to Build Your Own Blog with Gatsby and NetlifyCMS

September 26, 2019
This tutorial will walk through the quickest way to get a blog up and running that uses Gatsby on the front end and NetlifyCMS to manage content. We'll be using a starter template and deploying…
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Welcome to The New Developers

August 19, 2019
We are you, a year from now. We took the early classes, the late exams. We sat in the basement labs and slogged through the coffee lines. We threw exception after exception after exception. We left…
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