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Week 4

Tuesday​

  • Low attendance
  • Ended Early

Thursday​

  • Date: September 26, Thursday
  • Time: 6:30pm-8:00pm

🎥 Meeting Recording:​

🚩 Agenda​

  1. Sign in with attendance code
  2. Presentation by Meriem Elkoudi regarding UML's Co-Op Program
  3. Questions
  4. Break for Pizza
  5. Shift to Hands-on section

🪄 Meeting Resources​

  • Presentation
  • Co-op Center Contacts:
    • UML Career and Co-op Center, University Crossing, Suite 450
    • Website

📓 Meeting Notes​

Virtual: 2
In-Person: 24

About the presentor:

  • Meriem Elkoudi
  • Completed a Summer Co-op at Camp Systems
    • QA engineer
    • Used MABL, CSS, JS
    • Utilized MABL for tool testing

About the Co-op Program:

  • Why do it?
    • Help students at UML start their careers early
    • Earn a salary
    • Build career development skills
    • Work 1:1 with co-op advisor
    • Gain competitive edge in the job market
  • What is it?
    • Build your resume
    • Gain experience
    • Mock Interviews
  • How does it work?

The process:

  • Preparation
    • PDS
  • Experience
    • 3 or 6 month options
    • Actually do your internship
  • Assessment:
    • After the experience

Electives for PDS:

  • Technical Elective
  • Waives off the Oral & Written requirement

A little more:

  • 6 month Co-op pushes your graduation date back by one semester

How Do participate in the Co-op program?

  • Co-op application

What's considered in an application:

  • GPA
  • Previous experience
  • Resume

Certain industry connections are exclusive (only offered through Co-op program):

  • Redhat

Short Pizza break

Transitioned to the Hands-on Section for PhotoSky

🧑‍💻 Hands on Section: PhotoSky​

Go over AWS CDK within our project

  • API Gateway
  • S3
  • Lambda Function
    • Access permissions
  • cdk deploy
    • Sythesizes a into a .yml file that contains the full specification of our cloud Resources

What curl does:

  • Tool used to interact with network services
  • Use RESTful API requests

Broke into sessions to work on PhotoSky. Restarted workflow from scratch with a slightly new docker image.
More hands off with individuals following the tutorial with E-Board helping out.

🚀 Next meeting​

Presentation regarding Docker by Matthew Harper!
Continuing work on PhotoSky & discussing other long-term projects.

See you next meeting!👋