Learn Quantum Computing at Foothill

CS 83A: Theory of Quantum Computing 1

Because of a successful and fully attended Fall pilot, Foothill will be repeating C S 83A (THEORY OF QUANTUM COMPUTING I) in Winter 2016. This comprehensive introduction to the fascinating field of Quantum Information and Computing is an ideal synthesis of mathematics, physics and computer science yet is accessible to students who have had only one or two courses in calculus and computer science. [Large Winter enrollments in core computer science classes resulted in adjustments to professor Loceff's teaching assignments and the cancellation of CS 83A for Winter.  He will try to offer it Spring quarter.  Check back in March.] 

Present your project at the STEM Showcase

Consider showing your individual or team project on a poster at a fun showcase in the STEM center. You have three weeks to get your project together, and there will be snacks! Please consider attending just to look at other students' projects, there will be snacks!

Where and when: Friday, December 4^th from 2:30pm to 4pm in the STEM Center

Foothill CS Club Meets Thursday

Thursday, 11 Nov, 2:00 pm, Room 4223

VP of Engineering Speaks at Women in STEM Club at Foothill

Celeste Baranski, Vice President of Engineering at Numenta, will speak on Tuesday, 10 Nov, at 2:30 pm in Room 4308. After Celeste earned her BS and MS in Engineering at Stanford, she worked at Palm, Handspring, HP and Go, among other companies. Now at Numenta, Celeste manages engineers doing research on machine intelligence. Come hear about her background and get answers about your own career!

Mobile App Developer to speak at Foothill

Tuesday, November 3 from Noon to 12:50pm Room 4218

Vishal Parikh is currently CTO of Health IQ, a mobile health app. Prior to that he has worked at startups in mobile messaging and in building electric vehicles. Vishal has an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford, a BS in Computer Engineering and a BA in Math from the University of Texas.

Summer Jobs

iD Tech is a STEM focussed summer educational program that is looking to fill over 1400 summer positions with computer science students. They’re looking for energetic, tech-savvy, summer staff who understand the need for quality technology education for young students. Staff members receive competitive compensation, room & board (overnight staff only), custom built apps supporting operations and curriculum, college internship credit (if applicable), guidance from our experienced team of managers, and more.
Go to
https://www.idtech.com/jobs/summer-jobs/
for more information.

$5000 Silicon Valley Power Scholarship

Silicon Valley Power Scholarships are available for residents of the City of Santa Clara who are pursuing a career in energy. Deadline is 3 November. Go to siliconvalleypower.com/scholarship for more information.

Apple Software Engineer to Speak at CS Club

Thursday, 29 Oct, 2:00 pm in Room 4223. Chris Balz, a former Foothill student who is now working at Apple, will speak to the CS Club. You will have the opportunity to ask him questions too.

Top 10 Skills You Need at Work

There are so many reports out there that hiring managers look for "soft skills", here is just one article:
http://lifehacker.com/top-10-skills-you-need-at-work-that-have-nothing-to-do-1738449552?utm_content=buffer931f6&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Get Help Setting Up Your LinkedIn Profile

Friday, October 23^rd from 12noon-2pm

SRC Bldg 5400, room 5417

Two representative from LinkedIn will lead this hands-on workshop that covers the best ways to get profiles noticed, personal branding and how to leverage profiles and connections to help students get where they need to go. 

Registration is required: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/2383773/Foothill-LinkedIn-Day

 (Space is limited to first 30 participants)

Foothill STEM Scholarships

Apply now for one of the more than 20 science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) scholarships available to Foothill College students. Scholarship recipients receive $1400 per quarter for up to six quarters, have first choice of internships, and are paired with Foothill STEM faculty members in a one-to-one mentorship program.

To review the scholarship application and eligibility criteria, go to: http://www.foothill.edu/aid/campusscholarships.php

Transfer Day Wed, 21 Oct

Foothill is hosting many universities here so that you can talk with them directly about transferring. Wed, 21 Oct, from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. in the Small Gym, room 2500. For a list of participating universities, go to
http://foothill.edu/transfer/transfer.php

Women in STEM Club

This is a brand new club to support female STEM students by providing mentoring programs, networking connections, tips for STEM classes, professors, internships, or job opportunities. Students can also get motivated by STEM professional guest speakers/conferences, and get volunteer experience in STEM fields! All genders are welcome. Our first meeting will be held this Friday, October 9th from 11am to 12pm.

Feel free to sign up for this club by filling out Registration form ! If you have any questions, contact us at foothill.womeninstem@gmail.com

Computer Science Club

CS Club will have a meeting this Thursday, October 8th at 2PM in room 4223. Come join us for CS projects, workshops, guest speakers, and trips! All experience levels welcome. Contact: cs.foothill@gmail.com

Don't forget to check out/like/follow our...

Website: www.psme.foothill.edu/~csclub/

Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/cs.foothill

Twitter Feed: www.twitter.com/CSClubFoothill

Free Computers to Take Home!

Computers donated to the college and refurbished by interns are given away to eligible students. For more information and to apply, go to:
http://www.deanza.edu/oti/computer_scholar.html

NASA program for students

NASA is currently seeking community college STEM majors for its Fall 2015 NCAS program! NCAS participants interact with NASA scientists and engineers during a four-day onsite experience at a regional NASA Center.

Selected students are U.S. citizens currently pursuing their first undergraduate degrees at a community college. • Participants must be high school graduates and at least 18 years of age, and able to commit to a 5 week online session and a four-day onsite experience at a NASA Center. Travel, housing, and meals will be paid by NASA for the four-day experience. 

Apply online: https://ncas.aerospacescholars.org/ 

Silicon Valley Code Camp

Register early for this fabulous free conference and volunteer too!
Make great industry connections and learn practical skills at Code Camp. This year it will be held at Evergreen College in San Jose on Sat and Sun, October 3 and 4th. For more information, to register and volunteer, go to:
https://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/

Demo Day at Make School

Make School is having a Demo Day in San Francisco where you can see the apps built by the 210 high school and college students who have been studying at Make School this summer.

Students come to make school from all over the world to design, code, and ship an original app. The wealth of backgrounds and perspectives represented in the student body has never been seen in tech and they may be the next generation of makers and innovators. 

August 15th, 1pm-5pm

1547 Mission St, San Francisco

More info and rsvp here:   https://www.makeschool.com/sf-demoday

Summer Activities

Are you looking for something to do during your summer vacation?

Here are some excellent local field trips:

Intel Museum in Santa Clara

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/company-overview/intel-museum.html

Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale

http://www.plugandplaytechcenter.com/

Computer History Museum in Mountain View

http://www.computerhistory.org

Hacker DoJo in Mountain View

http://hackerdojo.com/

There are many professional organizations that meet face-to-face in this area, most of them are free to join and provide food at their meetings. Here is an example of one group that would love to have students attend:

Silicon Valley Java Developers Meetup

http://www.meetup.com/sv-web-jug

If you aren't interested in Java, go to www.meetup.com and search for an organization that discusses a topic you are interested in. The professionals at these meetings really enjoy talking to students!

Be a NASA Scholar!

NASA is currently seeking community college STEM majors for its Fall 2015 NCAS program!  NCAS participants are engaged in a rich STEM learning experience through interactions with NASA scientists and engineers, web-based activities and a four-day onsite experience at a regional NASA Center.  Community college students from across the nation are chosen to participate through a competitive process. Selected students are U.S. citizens (or Lawful Permanent Residents local to JPL) currently pursuing their initial undergraduate degrees at a community college who have an interest and aptitude for mathematics, science, engineering or computer science.

Students who meet the following criteria are encouraged to apply by the June 24th deadline!:

• U.S. citizen OR Lawful Permanent Resident (CA students local to JPL only)
• High school graduate and at least 18 years of age
• Must be a registered community college student (at the time of application, and during Fall 2015)
• Concurrent enrollment or completion of 9+ hours of STEM coursework (can be any courses)
• Able to commit to a 5 week online session and a four-day onsite experience at a NASA Center
• Internet access

Apply online:  https://ncas.aerospacescholars.org/

* Travel, housing, and meals will be paid by NASA for the four-day experience.

*If a student is a lawful permanent resident, he/she should email Roslyn Soto (roslyn.soto@jpl.nasa.gov) directly for instructions on filling out the application.

Scholarship Workshop Today

The STEM Center will host a scholarship workshop from 12:30 - 1:00 today (Wed, 17 June) in room 4218.  Kathy Armstrong will go over eligibility and the application process for the NSF STEM scholarships.  There are several $4200 scholarships available and they are only for Foothill students on a STEM path, so students are not competing against a huge pool.

Volunteer at NASA to Use Your CS Skills

If you’re looking to flex your CS skills, you could help develop a visual modeling program that will be the first of its kind. The project is the genetic modification of plants to produce a carbon nanotube network that will harness electricity.  Rachel, the project leader, is looking for CS students like you to model the affects of protein folding in conjunction with carbon nanotubules. 

You will read scientific articles, participate in “Teaching Meetings”, and learn to communicate with a diverse scientific team; skills that will help you be successful in whatever you do. You can volunteer for the summer or as long as you’d like. If you love science, interdisciplinary projects, or are curious for more information, contact Rachel at rachel.d.major@gmail.com

Last Foothill CS Club Meeting this year

The Computer Science Club meets for the last time this school year TODAY (11 June) at 3:00pm in room 4223. There will be pizza!

Cookies and Coffee with Bita Mazloom

Tuesday, 9 June, noon, Room 4402

Our new computer science professor Bita Mazloom, graduated from University of California, Santa Barbara and Santa Barbara City College. She teaches computer science courses. In her free time, she likes to explore and learn about classical and folk music. Her favorite instrument to play is the Santur, a type of hammered dulcimer. She also enjoys playing board games and teaching (hula) hooping. 

Come to Room 4402 in the PSEC to have some free snacks with Bita on Tuesday!

STEM Showcase

Friday, 19 June, 2:00 pm, STEM Center

Students show the projects that they have done in their classes. There will be snacks.

The projects that we expect to have range from large team projects that students have been working on for several weeks to small individual projects done for extra credit. Bring your own project or just come and look at other students' projects.

INSPIRE Summer Program

The Henry Samueli School of Engineering and the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences is accepting applications for the new INSPIRE Summer Program for California community college students. INSPIRE is a FREE 2-week residential program that provides community college students hands on experience in engineering and computer science disciplines, including robotics and programming. Go to http://sites.uci.edu/inspire/ for application and information. For questions, contact Dr. Sharnnia Artis at sartis@uci.edu or (949) 824-7134. The deadline to apply is Friday, June 5th.

Foothill Internship and Career Fair

Wed, 20 May, 11:00 am - 2:00 pm, Foothill Library Quad
Over 60 employers will be there ready to look at your resume.
For a list of employers, see
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WLlnkmFks_YW8rxOfKGmY_emAS36YkatnEmLO_sIe8Q/edit#gid=1722210847

To prepare for this event, we will have the following workshops for students:

Resume Writing Workshop

Date & Time: Tuesday, May 12^th from 1 – 1:45 p.m.

Location: Foothill College - 6300 Building, Room 6305

CPT/OPT Workshop for International Students

Date & Time: Wednesday, May 13th from 1 – 2 p.m.

Location: Foothill College – 1900 Administration Building,

Room 1943 (inside the International Office) 

Microsoft Hosts Career Event for 18-24 year olds

If you are 18-24 years old and are currently enrolled in a college, you are invited to attend Microsoft's YouthSpark Live event on Friday, May 8th at our Mountain View campus. 

YouthSpark is Microsoft's global initiative to connect 300 million youth around the world with education, entrepreneurship, and employment opportunities. This event will be an engaging, interactive, and fun-filled day complete with resources and workshops catered to helping guide you to your future career.

Who: Currently enrolled college students, ages 18-24

When: Friday, May 8th from 8:30am to 3:30pm (breakfast and lunch will be provided!)

Where: Microsoft, 1065 La Avenida, Mountain View, CA 94043

How: Register here. Space is limited. Dress will be business casual. Bring a copy of your resume to edit during our resume workshop.

Apply to a Spring NASA Program

NASA is currently seeking community college STEM majors for its Spring NCAS program!  NCAS participants interact with NASA scientists and engineers, web-based activities and a three-day onsite experience at a regional NASA Center.  

Students who meet the following criteria should apply by the June 24th deadline!:

• U.S. citizen OR Lawful Permanent Resident (CA students only)
• High school graduate and at least 18 years of age
• Must be a registered community college student (at the time of application, and during Fall 2015)
• Concurrent enrollment or completion of 9+ hours of STEM coursework (can be any courses)
• Able to commit to a 5 week online session and a four-day onsite experience at a NASA Center
• Internet access

Apply online:  https://ncas.aerospacescholars.org/

* Travel, housing, and meals will be paid by NASA for the four-day experience.

Career Fair at Microsoft

Are you trying to figure out what career path to follow? Are you interested in a career in technology?

If so, you’re invited to attend Microsoft’s YouthSpark Live event on Friday, May 8^th at our Mountain View campus. YouthSpark is Microsoft’s global initiative to connect 300 million youth around the world with education, entrepreneurship, and employment opportunities. This event will be an engaging, interactive, and fun-filled day complete with resources and workshops catered to helping guide you to your future career.

Who: Currently enrolled college students, ages 18-24

When: Friday, May 8^th from 8:30am to 3:30pm (breakfast and lunch will be provided!)

Where: Microsoft, 1065 La Avenida, Mountain View, CA 94043

How: Register here. Space is limited. Dress will be business casual. Bring a copy of your resume to edit during our resume workshop.

CS Club at Foothill

The Computer Science Club meets on Thursdays at 3:00pm in room 4223. Come join us for CS projects, workshops, guest speakers, and trips! All experience levels welcome. For more information contact: cs.foothill@gmail.com

Summer Jobs!

Be on the staff at a tech-savvy summer camp. iD Tech is looking to fill over 1400 positions with high quality students majoring in Computer Science, Engineering, Art & Design and Media Arts. For more information, go to:

https://media.idtech.com/jobs/recruitment_flyer.pdf

Part Time Tech Position

South Peninsula Hebrew Day School in Sunnyvale is in need of a part-time tech person who could be onsite and handle potential IT issues such as setting up hardware, networking, and general maintenance of equipment.

For more information and application, contact: Mike Norling mike.norling@sphds.org

Happy Pi Day (3/14)

Foothill's computer science club and the PSME Center will be observing Pi Day on Friday the 13th of March.
Noon: PSME Center in Room 4218 or Room 4203 (giveaways, prizes and pie)
1:00 - 4:00 PM: CS club in Room 4501 (see previous post for more details)

Facebook invites students to information security virtual meet and greet

Julian Nagler from Facebook's Information Security team says that his company sees first hand how the shortage of qualified talent in the infosec field is negatively impacting the industry, and the safety of the internet at large. So they have scheduled a virtual meet and greet for next Friday, March 20th, from 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm. They'd be honored to have our CS club, or any other interested students join and participate. 

 

This will be a fantastic opportunity for students to ask any questions they may have about careers in information security, the ins and outs of various jobs within the field, or any other pressing questions they may have. This is by no means meant to be a recruiting event, rather it will be focused on doing what we can to present the attractiveness of a career in information security. 

Students should RSVP to the event here, and submit any questions they'd like addressed to meetsecurity@fb.com. The event will be hosted via livestream here. 

Places to find internships

foothill.edu/internships

https://www.internbound.com/

https://www.myedu.com/internships-jobs/
https://www.aftercollege.com/
https://www.internmatch.com/

Also make sure to scroll down in this blog to find specific organizations that are currently looking for people like you!

STEM Club Social

Join your fellow STEM students this Friday, March 13th at 1:00pm to socialize and eat pizza! The event is a hosted by a collaboration of STEM clubs: Math club, Science and Engineering club, Chemistry Club (FACS), and Computer Science club. We will be featuring nitrogen frozen ice cream, experiments, STEM trivia, and showing off the cool projects the various clubs have done over the quarter. The event is hosted in room 4501, and will cost $2

Free seminar on Information Quality

at Sigma Technology in downtown San Jose
Tues., 24 March, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
For more information and to register:
http://sigmatechnology.se/events/sigma-seminar-take-instant-control-information/

Scholarships Available

Free Money! General deadline for applications is 3 April, 2015
http://www.foothill.edu/aid/campusscholarships.php
Lots to choose from...

Automation QA internship at Dolby Voice

QA Automation Interns in the Voice Group at Dolby Laboratories, San Francisco.

Responsibilities and Experience:

-Using Pytest develop automation scripts for the Dolby Voice Conferencing Phone

-Design, develop, maintain, and deliver highly scalable and reliable automation software using existing framework 

-Write high-quality software code that complies with automation design specifications

-Use a variety of tools to help build automation environment and execute automation

-Knowledge/experience with HTTP ,REST standards 

-Web services experience

-Experience with Jenkins or Electric commander automation integration

Apply by sending your resume todolby@gapjumpers.me or at

www.gapjumpers.me/questions/dolby-laboratories/qs-196/

Part time Webmaster Position

The Cornerstones of Trust, an annual information security conference, is looking for a talented individual to develop and maintain their conference website. They are looking for a reliable, knowledgable webmaster who is capable of managing the website in a secure manner that can withstand malicious attempts to compromise it confidentiality, availability and integrity.  Last year's website can be viewed at https://www.cornerstonesoftrust.com/ to determine the scope of effort that will be required. Send your resume to: president@sfbay.issa.org

HACU National Internship Program

The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities places students in corporate and government offices across the country, in internships closely related to your background and career goals. The program provides airfare, housing and weekly stipend. Deadline to apply is 27 Feb. For more information, go to:
http://www.hacu.net/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=1499

PG&E Bright Minds Scholarships

The 2015 PG&E Bright Minds Scholarship program is open for applications as of today and will close on Friday, February 9. The scholarship program is open to all majors although there is a preference for engineering and technology majors. Students are reviewed for academic achievement, financial need, community involvement/leadership and/or examples of overcoming personal challenges to succeed in school. For more information go to:

http://www.pge.com/en/about/community/signatureprograms/education/brightminds/index.page

CS Club Meeting

MakeSchool is coming to teach CS Club how to build an iOS Game in Swift in 1 hour! No experience required. Thursday 5 Feb, at 3:00 pm in Room 4223. 

CS Workshops

The PSME Center will be holding workshops each week called "CS Topics"
Wednesdays, 10:00 am - 11:30 am, Room 4306

Computer Science Club

First meeting of the quarter will be on Thursday, 15 January, 3:00 pm, Room 4223

Campus Job Opening

The Disability Resource Center is searching for a student employee who would work as an in-class scribe (Math 230) for a student with a physical limitation.  

Hours needed: Mon. through Fri.   10:00 - 11:50

Pay rate:  Student employee rate - $10.00  per hour

Contact: Margo Dobbins 650-949-7038    dobbinsmargo@fhda.edu

                       or drop in to DRC Room 5400