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Apply for HackingEDU Training Day! #hackingedu #revolutionedu #InventTheFuture http://thndr.it/1AvoTDt

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Absolutely love reading about tech companies giving back to the community! Galvanize, a tech startup, has started the Galvanize foundation in the hopes of promoting diversity in the tech industry by funding scholarships to different programming schools and organizations.

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Marketing Coordinator

Are you a student interested in tech and marketing?! Then you should join the HackingEDU team as a Marketing Coordinator. Our goal is to organize the largest student hackathon that will push the envelope on the contemporary education system. We want to empower students to solve problems that plague this outdated model. This will be a great opportunity for you to help us strategize on how to best get the word out to students on your respective campuses. If you're up for the challenge, contact our Marketing Director, Amy Phan at amy@hackingedu.co. Let's redefine education together!

Responsibilities:

Strategize on how to best promote HackingEDU’s events to students on your campus

Execute marketing campaigns (including social media, e-mail, live events, etc.)

Manage marketing projects

Engage with prospective attendees and registered attendees

Attend one hacking event a month

Attend bi-monthly conference calls with the Marketing Team

Assist with other tasks as needed

Desired Skills & Expertise:

Previous marketing experience and knowledge

Passion for education and tech

Team player

Exceptional verbal and written communications skills

Great at project management

Willingness to learn

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HackingEDU Recruitment

Our team's looking for some more incredible people to join us on our journey to creating a change in education! If any of the listed roles interest you, feel free to send an email to team@hackingedu.co with your resume and cover letter. The subject line should say "NAME OF ROLE/ Recruitment Inquiry" (ex. Technical Coordinator/ Recruitment Inquiry).

Please click on the role you're interested in for more information!

Here are the current open positions:

Sponsorship Coordinator

iPhone Developer

MARKETING SPECIFIC!

For those interested in the following position, please email amy@hackingedu.co directly with a resume and BRIEF cover letter (just a short paragraph stating why you want the role). The subject line should say "NAME OF ROLE/ Recruitment Inquiry" (ex. Marketing Coordinator/ Recruitment Inquiry).

Marketing Coordinator

OPERATIONS SPECIFIC!

For those interested in the following position, please email kirill@hackingedu.co directly with a resume and BRIEF cover letter (just a short paragraph stating why you want the role). The subject line should say "NAME OF ROLE/ Recruitment Inquiry" (ex. Technical Coordinator/ Recruitment Inquiry).

Technical Coordinator

Finance Director

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Finance Director

*Job Description* Responsibilities Include: - Know our budget and our finances by heart - Can handle managing a budget and make good financial decisions - Attend 1 weekly meeting with the Core team - Attend 1 weekly meeting with the Operations team

*Desired Skills & Expertise* - studied or are very interested in the field of finance - previous experience building a budget (preferred)

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iPhone Developer

*Job Description* Responsible for: - Build the HackingEDU iPhone application - Coordinate with the rest of the Technical team - Attend weekly meetings with the Technical team This is an unpaid internship.

*Desired Skills & Expertise* - Objective-C Development or Swift - Mobile UI/UX Design - Cordova or similar technology - Git - Github REST API

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Sponsorship Coordinator

*Job Description* Responsibilities include: - Attend at least two event/hackathon/conference a month to talk to potential sponsors - Handle entire sponsorship process from start to finish - Set your own goals that the team will hold you accountable for - Train and help team members to understand how to secure sponsors - Coordinate with the rest of the Corporate team - Attend weekly meetings with the Corporate team

*Desired Skills & Expertise* - Cold Calling - Some sales & or account management skills - Exellent verbal and written communication skills - Enthusiastic & high energy

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Technical Coordinator

*Job Description* Responsibilities Include: - Have complete ownership over the technical aspects for this event, which includes: - Coordinate with the wifi/internet solutions/networking company to ensure wifi does not go down and that there is enough bandwidth to support the amount of attendees. - Ensure that the building has the electrical capacity for that many people at once and that each hacker has a min of 2 outlets - Coordinate with the venue's a/v team for opening & closing ceremonies and all tech talks - Coordinate with the rest of the Operations team - Attend weekly meetings with the Operations team

If you don't know what the specs below mean, you might want to pass on this job. - 300 Mbps Symmetric Internet Circuit - 195 Mbps – 1000 Hardwired Drops (we may drop this) - 100 Mbps – WiFi - 5 Mbps – Streaming Circuit - 1000 Simultaneous Logins

*Desired Skills & Expertise* - Interested in IT - experience in AV - experience leading and coordinating teams - energetic & motivated

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SF Bay Area Hacker Houses

This is a list of hacker houses we've compiled.  Hopefully this helps someone!

ChezJJ

Rainbow Mansion

HackerHouse

StoneHenge Hacker House (check airbnb)

Silver Hill

Negev  (signup form) (reference)

939MakersHub

StartupCrashpad Home (Palo Alto)

SiliconHouse (Mountain View)

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