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March 2019
Analyze Re Design Challenge
Shiftkey Labs and Analyze Re are planning an exciting design challenge aimed at students with a keen interest in ML, and micro services. The goal is for you and your team to hack together a working proof-of-concept/prototype for one of the presented design challenges unveiled at the start of the event. You will have approximately 24 hours to conceptualize, model, create, and demo your solution! Meals, snacks and hot/cold beverages will be provided throughout the event to keep you fuelled…
Find out more »CANCELLED – The Pitch: You Only Get One First Chance to Tell Your Story
Note: This session has been cancelled. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused. Learn to represent yourself and your ideas more effectively. Through a series of exercises, you will learn methods to present and communicate effectively and persuasively. We will discuss how to project a confident image, organizing your content for impact, and creating a stronger connection with your listeners so that they can better hear, understand and retain your message. We will also discuss how to better understand…
Find out more »Testing Your Idea with Easy Prototypes
Workshop #6 of the Sandbox Discover program will focus on “Prototyping and Experimentation”. We’ll continue with the prototyping stage of design thinking and move on to the final stage of the process – the testing stage. This week we will concentrate on refining prototypes with the learning we gained last week and also spend some time experimenting/testing the prototype with users. The goal is not to defend your prototype but to observe how your user(s) interact with it. Based on this new…
Find out more »Dal Writes Worldbuilding: Editing Our First Drafts
We've written our drafts and now it's time to make them great! Join Dal Writes to learn how to edit someone's work while being respectful of the time and energy they put into it.
Find out more »CANCELLED – Sandbox Discover Design Challenge
The final design challenge is now being merged with the Arts-Tech Fusion Hackathon on Mar 23-24 (no design challenge on Wed, Mar 20th). If you have any questions on how this might impact the Sandbox Passport or the Design Challenge Certificate, please contact us. The final Sandbox Discover program workshop this semester is aimed at students who have participated in the majority of the program workshops. The goal is to apply program knowledge to solve a problem to a specific design…
Find out more »Arts-Tech Fusion Hackathon
We are pairing computer science students and non-computer science students together for the ultimate, cross-disciplinary, weekend-long event! From Saturday to Sunday, you and a partner will work together to create an idea that combines technology with the arts. Think music, history, visual arts, gender studies, theatre, creative writing - anything you want! No coding experience required! Over the weekend, we will meet guest speakers who combine arts with technology in their workplace every day. Take advantage of what they have…
Find out more »April 2019
CANCELLED – Angular Series – From Beginner to Advanced – Day 3
This event has been cancelled at the request of the organizer. Please contact them for more information. Attend this Halifax JavaScript + Emerging Web Technologies Meetup hosted by ShiftKey Labs to delve deeper into JavaScript, more specifically Angular. Content will be tailored to a beginner level audience on Angular.js with some experience in JavaScript programming. Here is a short list of topics that will be covered in this workshop: - Creating custom Directives - Pipes - Forms - Observables -…
Find out more »June 2019
Empathy in Innovation Series: Using Empathy to Gain Insight
Our first session of the Empathy in Innovation Series is an introduction to empathy and why it is a powerful learning tool in the early stages of innovation. During this session, we will work as a group to define what empathy it is, its role in innovation, and take a systematic approach to empathize with people in unique situations. No laptops or supplies are needed! Just bring your enthusiasm and we will supply the rest!
Find out more »POSTPONED: Empathy in Innovation Series: Active Listening
Active listening is a skill that involves allowing another to take the lead in a conversation while removing our own views. It is a rarely mastered skill that applies to many situations in our everyday lives. In this session, the concept of active listening will be introduced, discussed, and applied to a series of scenarios that challenge our ability to learn from differing perspectives. No materials are needed – just bring an openness to learn and a willingness to discuss!
Find out more »Empathy in Innovation Series: Mini Design Challenge
The last workshop of the Empathy in Innovation Series will apply what we know about empathy in a design challenge that forces us to take on both sides of two opposing viewpoints. Those attending may wish to bring a laptop or smartphone with them, but neither are required. The content of this workshop is a secret!
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