Civic hacknight #257 VIRTUAL - Education, Social Impact, Tech & Civic Engagement

• Topic:

We will introduce a community partnership program at the University of Toronto that has engaged tens of partners. The program has delivered software for various causes and missions. We invite you to join our program as mentors and partners or introduce our model to other educators.

• Speakers:

David Jorjani & Adam El-Masri, University of Toronto

David Jorjani is the instructor of Introduction to Software Engineering at the University of Toronto and has been building and leading engineering and product teams in the tech startup world of Toronto for the past 8 years.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorjani/

Adam El-Masri is the head teaching assistant for Introduction to Software Engineering at the University of Toronto and is a full-stack web development instructor with the School of Continuing Studies (UofT). With 6 years of software engineering experience in various domains, he currently focuses on the intersection of software engineering and social impact.

• Social Media Cheat Codes:

@CivicTechTO #civictech
https://link.civictech.ca/tweet

• Venue Sponsor:

Join us this week from the comfort of your own home, or wherever you are practicing social isolation, for a virtual civic tech hacknight!

• Check-in details:

Join us via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85847811289?pwd=THhwOEQvTlh5R3QvbWxha25xTWdGUT09
Webcams and mics optional, but encouraged!

Join via your browser: https://us02web.zoom.us/wc/join/85847811289?pwd=THhwOEQvTlh5R3QvbWxha25xTWdGUT09

Dial-in by phone in Canada:
+1 647 558 0588
Meeting ID: 858 4781 1289
Password: 008446

Check in with us on the Civic Tech Toronto Slack: https://link.civictech.ca/chat

• Accessibility:

We're exploring ways to make our online hacknights more accessible, but at the moment we only provide video and audio of the presentation through Zoom and automated closed captioning through Rev.com.

• About Us:

Our weekly civic tech hacknights bring together designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policy-makers, students, communications strategists, and all other Torontonians who share an interest in making Toronto more responsive, prosperous, sustainable and equitable, through design, tech, and data. (Coders are welcome, but you don’t have to be a coder to contribute!) Come and be part of it!

• Agenda:

7:00-7:10 = Welcome and Introductions
7:10-7:45 = Presentation and Q&A/discussion
7:45-9:00 = Breakout groups (go make something!)
> 9:00 = Civic Tech Toronto Virtual Hang Out

For more info, visit http://civictech.ca
Here's our Code of Conduct: http://civictech.ca/about-us

Hope to see you Tuesday!