If you secured a badge for Internet Week NY this year, be sure to check out tomorrow’s Made in NY panel which Chief Digital Officer Rachel Haot will moderate a panel of Made in NY tech founders.  They will talk about how they got their start, why New York City, valuable tips and advice they’ve picked up along the way and the future of NYC tech.

The panel includes:

• Carter Cleveland, Founder and CEO of Artsy
• Oliver Kharraz, Founder and COO of ZocDoc
• Alexa von Tobel, Founder and CEO of LearnVest
• Jonathan Zabusky, CEO of Seamless

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013
9:00-9:50am
IWNY HQ, Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 W 18th St

NYC Schools 7th graders at PS/IS 276 in Manhattan won second place in New York State’s online STEM Competition called E-Cybermission.  The competition was a free, web-based Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics contest sponsored by the US Army.  

The students won for their experiment on eliminating bacteria in storms such as Hurricane Sandy.  They investigated the effect of different concentrations of ethyl alcohol on killing e-coli bacteria. Each student won a $500 US saving bond.

More at http://on.nyc.gov/YVL4Wa.

Want to give back to NYC’s youth and cultivate more diversity in the tech sector? Your company is invited to take part in Summer Scholars, a program sponsored by the Bank of America that matches outstanding high school juniors and seniors with summer opportunities in tech companies. Students benefit from 15 hours per week of paid employment, high school credits, and employment skills coaching.

Summer Scholars kindly requests that tech hosts:

• Provide students with three days per week of meaningful work experience
• Designate a supervisor/point of contact for interns
• Log intern attendance and provide broad performance feedback on forms
  provided to employer
• Maintain communication with Summer Scholars project management team

Friday, May 10, 2013
9:30 – 10:30 AM
General Assembly
902 Broadway, 4th Floor
New York, NY

Want a VIP pass to Internet Week, personal tours of startups and tech companies in New York City?  Enter General Assembly’s “Walk the Web Carpet” Contest at http://ga.co/aB.

Join the NYC BigApps Jobs and Economic Mobility Hackathon (April 20-21), featuring $5,000 in cash prizes for winning teams that participate and demo apps that improve underserved New Yorkers’ access to work and economic opportunity.

The BigApps team will help you find a team to join and provide expert advisors to answer programming, design, and Jobs and Economic Mobility questions. 

AGENDA & SCHEDULE

SATURDAY April 20, 2013 
9:30am - 10:00am: Registration, Check-In & Breakfast 
10:00am - 11:00am: Welcome Message, Opening Keynote Speakers and Hackathon Introduction, Rules & Demos. Erine A. Gray, Founder of Aunt Bertha. Tom Hilliard, Senior Fellow in Workforce Development Policy at Center for an Urban Future 
11:00am - 6:00pm: Hacking! NYC BigApps Advisors & Data Partners will be present 
12:30pm: Lunch 
5:00pm - 6:00pm: Dinner 
6:00pm - 7:00pm: Insights Presentation (Snacks & Drinks) 

SUNDAY April 21, 2013 
9:30am - 10:00am: Registration, Check-In & Breakfast 
10:00am - 10:15am: Welcome Remarks 
10:15am - 4:30pm - Hacking! NYC BigApps Advisors & Data Partners will be present 
12:30pm: Lunch 
4:30pm: Submissions Due 
4:45pm - 5:30pm: Demos 
5:30pm - 6:00pm: Dinner & Judge Deliberation 
6:00pm - 7:00pm: Awards presented, drinks and party

NYC BigApps is the City’s premier open data software competition. Over the last three years of the competition, over 235 free web and mobile applications have been created from over 750 City data sets, winning over $100,000 in prizes. This year we are offering $150,000 in cash prizes and many other exciting changes, including a focus on BigIssues.
Read more at NYCBigApps.com