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“The people who think they are crazy enough to change the world are the ones who do.” - Steve Jobs It took me three days to cope with the fact that CodeDay Lucknow 2024 is indeed over now. Normally, I don’t post much here but this is something very close to my heart, a project that I'm grateful to have worked on, changing so many lives over the course of 2 years now. This year’s CodeDay Lucknow was no different. It was 2x better and more grandiose than 2023’s inaugural. Coming into 2024, I was asked to become 2024’s Regional Manager and to be honest, I did not know how to start. Parnika, the RM alongside me was also a first-timer for such a massive event. We hired a team of 20 people (more than double the amount last year) because going into 2024, we knew this event would be double the scale. A much bigger and better CodeDay Lucknow because HQ (the higher-ups, as we lovingly call them) asked us for a flagship event and, yeah, I think we delivered. We were a massive success, to say the least. We broke a lot of CodeDay records, ruined their normal statistics (:P) by being an outlier in every department possible. The team single handedly pulled off what seemed impossible, into a big puzzle with pieces fitting in perfectly to the last date. I don’t want to write too much about the event, rather, this is a post thanking everyone who made this possible. Tyler Menezes and Lola Egherman from HQ, the CodeDay Board, Arnav Chandak and Deven Jadhav for approving everything, Prateek Deshmukh, Ramiz Rahman and Nandkishor J for helping us out and guiding us whenever needed, Pavani for helping with the new logo, and most importantly, Ojas Srivastava for being with us every step of the way. A massive thank you to the team - Abhisar Anand, Ananya Srivastav, Arth Mohan, Devansh Rai, Kushagra Shrivastava FRAS, Luke Jason Dass, Nandita Shree, Partho, Prakhar Verma, Priyanshi R., Saksham Sharma, Sathya Sriram, Svaadha, Vangmay Sachan and Vansh Awasthi for being the best volunteers ever. Every one of you all went above and beyond what was needed and that’s what made this event possible. Lastly, to Utkarsh Mishra as well as Ojas, Kush and Priyanshi for pulling off really amazing workshops! This is Akif, signing off for 2024. See you next year at CodeDay Lucknow 2025. May the code be with you 🖖🏻. (Here’s a small spam of some moments that I randomly thought were cool enough to be shared.)

We're proud to have joined the Eclipse Foundation and the Eclipse IDE Workgroup, and excited to find ways to help students get involved in the many important projects being worked on!

Happy to announce that we've recently received a $1M award from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), which will support community college students beginning their careers in CS focusing on AI.

Last week CodeDay went to Toorcamp, the American hacker camp, on Orcas Island. We brought 25 people from around the world for 4 days of talks, workshops, night markets, creepy robots, and other fun. See you there again in 2026!

Fastly has supported CodeDay with free services for 6 years, so we're happy to support their launch today of a free plan for all developers. Sign up: http://fastly.com/pricing 

CodeDay is excited to partner with CascadiaJS to bring 12 students to their awesome conference next week! If you're interested but can't attend in person, they're LIVE STREAMING all of their amazing talks for FREE, powered by Mux. The livestream edition of CascadiaJS includes: - Access to the full Talk Track of the conference - 20 amazing speakers, covering the web, JavaScript and AI - A vibrant community on Discord. Have a question for a speaker? Head over to the conference Discord and ask them your question in our AMA channels. Don't miss out! All you need to do is register: https://lnkd.in/gVxm23HV

if you're someone who is in school rn (if you're in your school's student council, then that's a jackpot) and stays in kolkata, this post is for you!! so CodeDay which is a global organisation is hosting an 24h offline coding event in kolkata for the second time. and we want to collaborate with your school, so that many more students can have this opportunity to enjoy and learn. we have successfully hosted over 515 events globally, engaging more than 60,000 students. and last year's CodeDay Kolkata event was a resounding success, and we are eager to build on that momentum this year. so we would greatly appreciate the opportunity to have a brief 15-20 minute session at your school to provide more information about this event and discuss the potential for your institution to participate. please DM or drop a comment to discuss further! I would really appreciate if you share this with your friends in different schools!! #coding #codedaykolkata #opportunity #highschool

We're excited to share our "Best Student Open-Source Contributions" for the 2023-24 school year! Congrats to the winners: - Contributing To Microsoft’s Semantic Kernel Project by Alisha Maddy, Sneha De & Sebastian Santoyo (with mentor Shiv Bijlani) - fix(arcgis): DeckGL rendering integration by Jared Scarr (with mentor Omar Shehata) - Adding Support for Wasabi and Digital Ocean in Firefiles by Brian Palomar & Nathan Pham (with mentor Sabrina Reyes) https://lnkd.in/gufU8Gfq

The Computing Talent Initiative, in partnership with CodeDay, has developed a unique model that prepares computer science students from community colleges and public universities — starting as early as their first year — to make meaningful contributions in large-scale open source projects by their second year. The quality of the work students do can be seen in the blog posts written by the students, such as 'Delving into a Complex Database (NocoDB): https://lnkd.in/gn54QdMz'' and 'My Summer Internship: Contributing to Microsoft's Semantic Kernel Project: https://lnkd.in/gMQCjWre' For a deeper understanding of how this model works, consider reading this post. Please let me know if you would like to learn more and/or partner with us in this effort.