MEMPHIS, Tenn. - CodeCrew, a non-profit that empowers children and adults to be tech innovators and leaders, is hosting its 9th annual Hackathon, the popular app building competition, August 3-5
CodeCrew Students Participate in Machine Learning and Data Science Bootcamp Hosted by WorldQuant Predictive
Program Designed to Help Close the Digital Divide
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MEMPHIS, Tenn., June 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ CodeCrew, a non-profit that empowers children and adults to be tech innovators and leaders, has announced that its students are participating in a free 16-week Bootcamp hosted by WorldQuant Predictive, an AI predictions products company, with the goal of creating a career pipeline for underrepresented groups in data sciences.
The Bootcamp covers an introduction to data science and machine learning, as well as provides training on statistical calculations. Over the course of the program, students will gain critical skills, including how to train, test, and evaluate machine learning models. They will also learn about exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, and data visualization.
But first, we re revisiting a protest Sunday night on the National Civil Rights Museum s plaza.
About 30 protesters gathered at the museum to condemn the recent killings of Daunte Wright, Adam Toledo and Anthony Thompson Jr.
The Sunday protest a repeat of more than a dozen such protests last spring after George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer on Memorial Day was nearly derailed before it started. Museum security officials at first told organizers they needed to move off museum grounds. After several minutes and a few phone calls, the security officers said the protest could continue on the plaza.
Teens on a Year That Changed Everything
In words, images and video, teens across the United States show us how they have met life s challenges in the midst of a pandemic.
March 7, 2021
What has it been like to be a teenager during the first year of a historic pandemic?
The New York Times, through its Learning Network, asked the question, and more than 5,500 responses poured in.
In words and images, audio and video, they reported that it was, in many ways, a generation-defining disaster. Being trapped inside and missing the milestones that ordinarily mark coming of age in America was lonely, disorienting, depressing and even suffocating.