Carey Hosts Ibm Hackathon For Baltimore Public High School Students

Main navigation Johns Hopkins Legacy Online applications Faculty Directory Experiential studying Career sources Alumni mentoring program Util Nav CTA CTA Breadcrumb Carey Hosts IBM Hackathon for Baltimore Public High School Students The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School hosted a daylong hackathon, or intensive computer programming expertise, for Baltimore City Public Schools students on November 22, 2014. The occasion was sponsored by IBM and arranged in cooperation with Carey Business School college students and Carey Net Impact, the varsity’s service and community management organization. Over forty students from Western High School and Baltimore Polytechnic Institute came together to develop software applications using IBM’s Bluemix platform. “IBM Bluemix is a cloud-based mostly platform as a service (PaaS) that enables app builders to rapidly construct and deploy their apps in a easy, intuitive means,” stated Michael Digafe, a 2014 Carey Business School Global MBA alumnus who works for IBM. He came up with the thought to deliver dozens of novice programmers to his alma mater, which made this a special event as a result of IBM’s hackathons aren't typically open to highschool students, Digafe noted . The present Carey college students whom Digafe engaged to help plan the hackathon weren't certain how the high school students would respond. Dan Givol, a Global MBA scholar and occasion co-organizer, mentioned he and his colleagues had a “Field of Dreams second” when dozens of teenagers started arriving that Saturday morning when out of doors temperatures were within the 20s. Students proceeded to work for practically nine hours straight. “We gave them the choice for longer breaks, and to cease, but they all chose to maintain going,” Givol observed. At the top of the day, the students had built a stay app that pulls information from Twitter, analyzes it using Watson (the IBM computer that won on Jeopardy), and returns the results through textual content message. Johns Hopkins students â€" representing the Carey Business School, the Whiting School of Engineering, and the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, in addition to Carey’s joint Design Leadership program with the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) â€" served as mentors to the highschool college students all through the occasion. STEM â€" which stands for science, expertise, engineering, and math â€" is a critical area of focus for high colleges throughout the nation. Otilio Baez, computer technology schooling specialist at Baltimore City Public Schools, pointed to the significance of hackathons and comparable apply environments that demand actual-world STEM pondering. The Western and Poly students who participated come from various STEM applications similar to biomedical sciences, the district’s CISCO networking program, and laptop science. “Here they get to blur the line between concept and follow and lengthen what they’re doing in the classroom,” Baez said. Over the course of the day, he noticed college students with minimal coding expertise applying their knowledge from different STEM fields and getting used to the Bluemix software program. “These kinds of experiences are invaluable after we discuss preparing them for postsecondary success and being truly career- and faculty-prepared.” Students tweeted their experiences throughout the day, and their posts can be discovered by trying to find #hackcarey on Twitter. Posted 100 International Drive