EqOpTech is pleased to invite you to join our virtual Tech Talk on Machine Learning and AI with Microsoft.

Sign up:  RSVP AI/ML Tech Talk google form

Where:  Meeting Link will be posted on Slack shortly

When: Wed, Sept 30, 2020, 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm Pacific Time

Agenda: Microsoft Cloud Developer Advocates will provide you with an overview of their world, what cool tech they are working with or on, and are excited to answer questions you all have about Microsoft, the industry, AI/ML and the tech space in general. Please submit your questions ahead of time via Slack or email contact@eqoptech.org

Speakers' Bio:

• Cassie Breviu

• Seth Juarez

About EqOpTech: Founded in May 2016 by a Los Altos High School graduate, EqOpTech promotes and enables equal opportunity free access to technology for STEM education in under-served communities. Visit www.eqoptech.org for more information.

EqOpTech is pleased to host a college talk to prepare our high school students for college. Mr. Goreal will be joined by 3 LAHS graduates (Sarah Yung, Kevin Gao & Zosia Stafford) to share their personal experience about best-fit college, crafting your story, reshaping your narratives amid the pandemic, impacts of test-optional policies, insights into non-published admission requirements, their journey through the CommonApp and Coalition process and more.

Details of the college talk are as follows:

Sign up: RSVP college talk google form

Where:  Join Google Meet https://tinyurl.com/EqOpTechCollegeTalk2020

When: Wed, July 29, 2020, 1:00 pm

Who: Students and/or parents

Agenda:  Coming soon

Our July 15th meeting will feature a tech talk on Data Science by Karanbir Sodhi, Director of Business Intelligence and Web Analytics at IMVU. Mr. Sonhi has been with IMVU since 2010, focusing on the following initiatives:

• Extensively used big data to gain insights that supported decision making to improve revenue and retention

• Used data analytics to improve product performance, promotions and customer acquisition

• Identified fraud and helped with risk management

• Developed prediction tools/models using machine learning

A graduate of Cornell University and University of New South Wales, he has over thirteen years of leadership and consulting experience in big data analytics, business intelligence, product management and solutions development.

Details of the tech talk are as follows:

Agenda: Coming soon

Sign up: https://tinyurl.com/EqOpTechDataScienceTechTalk

Where:  Join Zoom Meeting

https://us04web.zoom.us/j/71903956710?pwd=Um1aQ0tneG1ldXpKaWRBbWNWK1VRUT09

Meeting ID: 719 0395 6710; Passcode: 010101

When: July 15, 2020, 1:00 pm

Who: Students interested in tech fields and/or parents

Cost: Free

Prerequisites: No previous experience necessary. 

About EqOpTech: Founded in May 2016 by a Los Altos High School graduate, EqOpTech promotes and enables equal opportunity free access to technology for STEM education in under-served communities. Visit www.eqoptech.org for more information.

Our Equal Opportunity Technology program is made possible thanks to Los Altos Community Foundation community grant award. Visit here for more information. We are most grateful to our partners, sponsors and donors for their continuing support and generous donations.

Meetup Objective:

- Sort and procure Chromebooks & power adapters for student volunteers/parents to take home
- Each student volunteer/parent will transport home 60 Chromebooks and 60 power adapters for refurbishing. 
- After powerwashing the Chromebook, please clean the Chromebooks, including screens etc. and remove all stickers
- Hold on to the 60 refurbished chromebooks and 60 power adapters and deliver them to the next deployment event at Thereukauf Elementary school, 1625 San Luis Ave., Mt View on Fri PM, 3/27 (tentative date)

Thank you for your support!

Details of the Laptop Refurbishing Workshop are as follows:

Where: The View Teen Center,  263 Escuela Avenue, Mountain View

When: November 16, 2 to 6 pm

Who: EqOpTech Intern and EqOpTech LAHS school club members

Objectives: Refurbish 300 Chromebooks for deployment to Castro School, Mountain View

RSVP: via this Google Form

About EqOpTech

EqOpTech Inc., located in Los Altos, CA, is a 501(c)(3) IRS-designated tax exempt nonprofit organization that promotes and enables equal opportunity free access to technology for computer learning and STEM education in under-served communities. Visit EqOpTech at www.eqoptech.org

Our Equal Opportunity Technology program is made possible thanks to Los Altos Community Foundation community grant award. Visit here for more information.

College Preparation Talk by Kalven Goreal

EqOpTech is pleased to host a college talk to prepare our high school volunteer interns for college. Mr. Goreal will be joined by 2 LAHS graduate to share their personal experience about best-fit college, crafting your story, Insights into non-published admission requirements, their journey through the CommonApp and Coalition process etc.

Where: The View Teen Center,  Castro Room, 263 Escuela Avenue, Mountain View

Agenda:

1.    We are here to craft your story, but what does that really mean?

2.    I do lots of different activities, am I setting myself up for great opportunities?

3.    What colleges love to see in a high school student

4.    How do we identify our strengths and talk about them to someone that doesn’t know me?

6.    Taking Calculated Risks, be different, especially when you see a possible impact

7.    Develop skills that will continue being used (how we can do that) and be sure to give back!

8.    What we write and what we write about, what kind of stories are involved, and examples?

9.  Why we write the way that we write, with a narrative flair that sparks the mind

10.  Writing Timeline: UC’s/Common-Coalition/Supplementary,

and more…

Slide Deck Presentation here

Student Panel Discussion Q&A by Kevin Gao & Terence Lee:

You are invited to a hands-on computer refurbishing workshop at The View Teen Center to learn how to install open source software such as Linux Ubuntu, CloudReady onto iMacs and MacBooks.

Please RSVP via this google form by Thursday July 11, 5 pm so that we can get the computers, table & chairs ready for this workshop.

COMPUTER REFURBISHING WORKSHOP, 2-4:30 PM

Agenda:

• Group One: 5 volunteer interns refurbishing iMacs, partition hard disk to dual boot iMacs with Linux Ubuntu OS

• Group Two & Three: Volunteer interns will learn how to

  • (a) create a CloudReady USB installer using Windows 10 OS

  • (b) install CloudReady on white MacBooks 2,1 core 2 duo

• Test drive computers to ensure access to Google Applications, Khan Academy, ST Math etc.

• Clean laptops including refurbished Chromebooks

• Refurbished computers will go to needy students in MVLA and neighboring cities such as East Palo Alto and San Jose

Mentors:

• Daniel Lim

• Trevor Smith

• Bill Shao

• Kevin Gao

• Terence Lee

Prerequisites: No previous experience necessary, however, it would be helpful to review the slides & video from our 1st orientation

iMac presentation to college-bound LAHS graduating senior

Computer Supplies pickup at the end of the workshop.

Our Saturday July 6th meeting will feature a talk on Artificial Intelligence by Willie Lim, Development Architect of SAP Labs. Mr. Lim will explain the application and practical usage of A.I. in the world around us.

EqOpTech recognizes and celebrates volunteers' service efforts through the Congressional Award and the President's Volunteer Service Award. There will be a short presentation about how it works and how to register and apply if interested.

Agenda:

• Meet & Greet

• About Us

• First orientation recap

• Firewire Tutorial

• Interactive Firewire Demo

• Parts of a Computer

• Laptop components demo

• Simple laptop architecture & I/O ports

• Hard Drive replacement demo

• Migrate Q&A to Slack

• New initiative

• EqOpTech Internship Highlights

• You get out what you put in

• Pick up/drop off computer suppleis

• Thanks for attending

Our Equal Opportunity Technology program is made possible thanks to Los Altos Community Foundation community grant award. Visit here for more information. We are most grateful to our partners, sponsors and donors for their continuing support and generous donations.

Agenda:

• Meet & Greet

• Welcome & Introductions

• Demo: Windows 10 install

• Demo: Linux Ubuntu install

• Linux Lubuntu Demo install

• CloudReady Demo install

• Chromebook powerwash

• Shared Google Folder - Installation Guide & Video

• YouTube videos

• Housekeeping: Functionality Testing Google Form, Weekly Status Report Google Form

• Pick up computer project supplies

• Wrap up/clean up

Our Equal Opportunity Technology program is made possible thanks to Los Altos Community Foundation community grant award. Visit here for more information. We are most grateful to our partners, sponsors and donors for their continuing support and generous donations.

Data Science Tech Talk

Tech Talk: Andreas Santucci,  Data Scientist at Cardinal Analytx Solutions & Teaching Fellow at Stanford University - 3:30-5 pm

Andreas is an economist and programmer, currently practicing Data Science at Cardinal Analytx Solutions. He studied computational and mathematical engineering at Stanford University, and whilst there he passed Ph.D. qualifying exams in both Discrete Mathematics and Algorithms and also Stochastic Processes.

His long-term objectives are to develop a strong niche in the areas of statistics and high-performance computing and to apply this knowledge to modeling complex economic phenomena.

Details of the tech series are as follows:

Agenda: Coming soon

Where: The View Teen Center,  Castro Room, 263 Escuela Avenue, Mountain View

When: September 16, 3:30 pm

Who: Students interested in tech fields

Cost: Free

Prerequisites: No previous experience necessary. 

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To attend:

(1) Student Agreement
If you have not previously submitted a signed student agreement, a parent or guardian must sign and submit a student agreement for each student before the event. If you are 18 or above, you can sign the student agreement yourself. Student Agreement link can be found here. E-mail the signed Student Agreement to lucy@eqoptech.org prior to attendance.

(2) Sign up via google form

Inviting a friend:

Your friend must sign up via google form & e-mail the signed student agreement prior to the event. 

Students cannot be allowed onto a EqOpTech event without a presubmitted or paper copy of the Signed Student Agreement. 

Minors:

All minors, 17 and under, must be accompanied by a parent, or adult legal guardian for the duration of the speaker/workshop.

Please remember that we are guests at The View Teen Center: respect the property and facilities so we can leave the building as we found it.

EqOpTech speaker/workshop Tech Series #6:

"From Gold to Bitcoin", Scott Best, Rambus Cryptography Research

CAD Design Workshop

Tech Talk: Scott Best, Technical Director - Anti-Counterfeiting, Rambus Cryptography Research - 2-3 pm

Scott Best is the Technical Director of Anti-Counterfeiting with Rambus Cryptography Research, located in San Francisco, CA. He has been with Rambus since 1998, focusing on the areas of integrated circuit design, advanced signaling, next-generation memory systems, 2.5/3D packaging, random-number generators, and anti-counterfeiting technology.

A graduate of Cornell University, he has been working in the semiconductor field for more than twenty-five years, and is a named inventor on over ninety-five issued patents.

“From Gold to Bitcoin”

Agenda:

• Speaker introduction
• Why is gold, well, gold?
• What is money?
• What is Bitcoin and why can it be used like money?
• Q&A (5 mins)

3:00 to 3:15 pm - 15 minute break between workshop & talk

CAD Design Workshop #2:

 3:15-5pm

For First-time Attendees

• Basic CAD functions to model structures
• Part files vs. assembly files vs. construction files
• Navigating around and implementing pictures as outlines
• Textures and materials identifying cost/specifications of structures built
• Proper dimensions and scaling

For return attendees, we will work on more complex CAD model design eg. a house.

Details of the STEM speaker/workshop series are as follows:

Where: The View Teen Center, Rengstorff Room, 263 Escuela Avenue, Mountain View

When: August 12, 2 to 5 pm

Who: MVLA Scholars, Students interested in tech fields

Cost: Free

Prerequisites: No previous experience necessary. 

Workshop Materials:

You are invited to join a STEM speaker/workshop series:

From Sand to Silicon to Chip... From CAD to EDA

Where: The View Teen Center, Rengstorff Room, 263 Escuela Avenue, Mountain View

When: August 5, 2 to 5 pm

Who: Students interested in tech fields

Cost: Free

Prerequisites: No previous experience necessary. Bring your own laptop and a mouse with a scroll wheel. If you do not have access to a laptop, please e-mail lucy@eqoptech.org to request one for the workshop.

Class materials: Click slide here

Tech Talk: Grace Gao, Principal Engineer, Rambus - 2-3 pm

Ms. Grace Gao, Principal Engineer at Rambus Inc. with 20 years of extensive experience in analog mixed-signal design flow development and EDA tools support. She has in-depth knowledge of challenges in 14nm and below deep sub-micron processes.

She is a great communicator and works with cross functional team in full project life cycle. She has lived and worked in three countries, China, Japan and U.S. While working abroad, she loves to learn and experience new culture and meet new people.

Agenda:

• Speaker introduction
• VLSI CAD Presentation (slides)
• Demos (several video clips)
• Internship experience
• Workplace communication best practice
• Q&A (5 mins)

3:00 to 3:15 pm - 15 minute break between workshop & talk

CAD Design Workshop #1:

 3:15-5pm

• Basic CAD functions to model structures
• Part files vs. assembly files vs. construction files
• Navigating around and implementing pictures as outlines
• Textures and materials identifying cost/specifications of structures built
• Proper dimensions and scaling

You are invited to join a STEM speaker/workshop series:

Where: The View Teen Center, Castro Room, 263 Escuela Avenue, Mountain View

When: July 29, 2 to 6 pm

Who: Students interested in tech fields

Cost: Free

Prerequisites: None

Sign up: (a) complete Google Form https://goo.gl/forms/TXfw6gfJe1hpPXNm2 & submit the attached signed release form and The View Teen Center registration form.

Computer Refurbishing Workshop, 2-3:45 pm

Leaders:

• Terence Lee, LAHS
• Kevin Gao, LAHS
• Trevor Smith, LAHS
• Arya Nasikkar, Egan Junior High
• Yash Nasikkar, Egan Junior High

Agenda:

• General Overview on MacBook Refurbishing
• Partition hard disk to dual boot MacBooks with Linux OS
• Install Linux Ubuntu/Lubuntu
• Test drive Google Applications
• Refurbished laptops will go to needy students

3:45 to 4 pm - 15 minute break between workshop & talk

Tech Talk: Magdalene Lim, Software Engineer, LinkedIn - 4-5 pm

Magdalene Lim is a backend software engineer at LinkedIn. She is quite new to the industry, having graduated from college in 2015. She hopes to inspire others to try coding and truly believes that everyone has the capacity to do it.

Agenda:

• Speaker introduction

• Personal journey to becoming a software engineer

• How does coursework really translate into post-grad work

• Interview prep and tips

• Internship experience (Machine Learning at Amazon)

• LinkedIn work life and culture

• Q&A

You are invited to join a STEM speaker/workshop series:

Where: The View Teen Center, Castro Room, 263 Escuela Avenue, Mountain View

When: July 22, 3 to 5 pm

Who: Students interested in tech fields

Cost: Free

Prerequisites: None

Sign up: (a) complete Google Form https://goo.gl/forms/TXfw6gfJe1hpPXNm2 & submit the attached signed release form.

Guest Speaker: Shrikant Nasikkar, Entrepreneur, Founder and CEO of Chaperone 

Bio: Shrikant Nasikkar is a graphic designer by trade but has worn many hats in last 2 decades; from Product manager, Creative director, VP of Content management, Owner of manufacturing plant to most recently as an entrepreneur. A world citizen, traveled to dozens of countries, lived and worked in 3 countries, 1 planet so far.

Agenda:

• Speaker introduction
• Roles and responsibilities as a Creative Director.
• How SmartUp app empowers and mentors entrepreneurs - a platform to help develop soft skills (communication, creativity, collaboration)
• Chaperone - Uber for kids
• Where things are headed and the opportunities that are available to freshman/graduates 
• Open for Q & A - Bring your big ideas so we can guide and share insights

You are invited to join a STEM speaker/workshop series:

Where: The View Teen Center, Castro Room, 263 Escuela Avenue, Mountain View

When: July 15, 3 to 5 pm

Who: Students interested in tech fields

Cost: Free

Prerequisites: None

Sign up: (a) complete Google Form https://goo.gl/forms/TXfw6gfJe1hpPXNm2 & submit the attached signed release form.

Guest Speaker: Kevin Whitley, Software Engineer from Roadster. Kevin is a developer at Roadster working on user interface. Previously he was a senior engineer at POPSUGAR’s ShopStyle and an architect at Ariba and several other software companies. He has a Bachelor and Master of Science in Physics from U.C. Berkeley.

Agenda:

- Speaker Introduction (5 minutes)

- What is User Interface (UI) Design

- How to become a UI Designer

- UI Design Tools (demo)

- Showcase UI at Roadster, POPSUGAR, Ariba

- Journey to becoming a developer, UI designer, software engineer

- Refreshment break (15 minutes)

- Working for a silicon valley start up, what to expect

- Roadster disruptive business model

- Other topics of interest

- Q&A (15 minutes)

You are invited to join a STEM speaker/workshop series:

Where: The View Teen Center, Castro Room, 263 Escuela Avenue, Mountain View

When: July 8, 3 to 5 pm, featuring guest speaker from Juniper Networks

Who: Students interested in tech fields

Cost: Free

Prerequisites: None

Class materials: For slide decks, click Networking & CyberSecurity and Intro to Networking

Sign up: (a) complete Google Form https://goo.gl/forms/TXfw6gfJe1hpPXNm2 & submit the attached signed release form.

Guest speaker:

Mr. Vijay Talati,  Vice President of Engineering at Juniper Networks with over 20 years of experience in the field. He will discuss computer networking and cyber security.

Agenda:

Section I: Overview of computer networking: State of the union

- Last 50 years of history: How networks have evolved 

    History of Internet

- A view of where we are today:

    Current state of computer networks and internet 

    Impact of computing and networking: The second machine age 

Section II: Computer networking fundamentals:

    - What are computer networks

    - Types of networks

    - Network equipments: Hubs, Switches, Routers and Security appliances 

    - Servers 

    - TCP/IP protocol fundamentals

    - The internet addressing scheme and name resolution 

    - Routing protocols 

    - Software Defined Networks 

Section III: Cybersecurity: 

    - The need for security

    - Types of vulnerabilities and attacks

    - Cryptography: The basics of authentication, authorization and encryption

    - Modern techniques of threat detection, mitigation and prevention

    - Anatomy of a cyber-attack 

Q&A