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Freshmen tackle data and art in first hands-on engineering project

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 16:21:10 +0000

Freshmen tackle data and art in first hands-on engineering project Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 06/06/2018 - 10:21

Two TAM students helped create prototype sculpture that visualizes Colorado's air quality data.

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ATLAS club an innovation hub for AR/VR community

Anonymous — Fri, 18 May 2018 19:33:58 +0000

ATLAS club an innovation hub for AR/VR community Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 05/18/2018 - 13:33

Justin Chin (left) helps present Cade Haley's app, Tai Chi VR, at ATLAS Expo Spring 2018.

An ATLAS club has helped lead to prestigious internships, a national hackathon win and permanent employment for some of its members.

In less than a year, the ATLAS Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality Club swelled to approximately 80 members, including graduate and undergraduate CU ��«��Ƶ students, high school students and local developers and designers who test, build and collaborate on projects, says club organizer and computer science graduate student Justin Chin.

“Members are excited about the community and sharing their knowledge with others who are interested,” says Chin, who graduates this summer. “If you want to be a pioneer in this industry, there’s no better time than now to join in."

Winning national AR/VR hackathon

A popular project on display at ATLAS Expo Spring 2018 was Tai Chi VR, a virtual reality app for learning tai chi. The work of two members of the AR/VR Club as well as a California-based animator, the app won University of Southern California’s Creating Reality Hackathon earlier this spring, with club members Cade Haley and Roldan Melcon, as well as animator John Yoon, sharing the $5,000 grand prize.

Haley, a CU ��«��Ƶ computer science and film production major who graduated in May, says that tai chi involves frequent shifts in direction, making it difficult for novices to watch and copy an instructor’s movements. Their VR application solves this problem by surrounding the student with eight animated instructors—no matter which direction the student looks, an instructor is plainly visible. The app also delivers soothing music to the student, who stands on a circular platform floating in the sky surrounded by clouds.

Competing against 400 participants who had been selected from 2,000 applicants nationwide, Haley and his team built their app from scratch in just 48 hours. Besides the prize money, the win also landed Haley a job with a tech start-up out of Purdue University, Explore Interactive, which uses augmented reality to support STEM education.

Club organizer and computer science graduate student Justin Chin’s team won second place in the hackathon’s Microsoft Mixed Reality track. Their project, Follow Me, is an AR emergency simulation training app designed to provide office personnel with emergency information, such as locations of exits, tornado shelters, fire extinguishers and first aid stations. Instead of organizing group trainings and fire drills, their app enables companies to program one AR headset that employees check out to complete the simulated training as part of a standard orientation.

AR/VR Club Thrives

An Expo visitor tries out Tai Chi VR.

Under Chin’s leadership, the ATLAS AR/VR Club has provided education and development of AR/VR related technologies and applications, introducing members to new technology platforms, such as Oculus Rift, HTC VIVE, Google Daydream and Microsoft Hololens.

It’s also a valuable bridge between campus and the local AR/VR development community, providing connections to meetups where members test, build and collaborate on projects. Over the course of the year, the club offered tutorials for beginners using Vuforia AR and Unity, inviting speakers from Occipital, Google News Lab, Viget, NIST and Design Workshop to share their knowledge and experience.

“The biggest barrier is learning the tools to build VR—learning Unity, and in some cases learning to program. Beginner workshops allow people to ease into it,” Chin says.

Harrison Bolin, a first-year TAM major, had no previous experience in Unity when he joined the club, but after completing several club-sponsored Unity workshops, he’s built VR apps and now hosts a weekly virtual reality web show for MediumLabs in ��«��Ƶ.

“I'm in the AR/VR club because I love learning about emerging technologies,” Bolin says. “The club helps me practice my skills and gives me opportunities to talk to people with the same passion for innovation, as well as share VR projects and hear talks from industry leaders.”

Chin also points to the club’s value in connecting members to AR/VR opportunities, such as Bolin’s internship, the USC hackathon and University of Denver’s Global Game Jam, a hackathon focused on game development.

“Quite a few companies—Trimble, NIST, Ball Aerospace and a variety of startup companies are starting to dip their feet into AR and VR,” Chin says.

In addition, AR/VR is now used in architecture and medical fields. Home buyers “walk through” homes before they are built or view existing houses from the comfort of armchairs. The technology is also being used in nursing homes and hospices to keep residents and patients mentally engaged, which in turn supports pain control.

The AR/VR club was organized by Chin and other students after they completed Assistant Professor Dan Szafir’s Introduction to Virtual Reality course in fall 2016.

“When I was a member of the Makers Collective Club, I saw people working on creative and ambitious projects in the ATLAS BTU Lab,” says Chin. “Similar to BTU and the Makers Collective, I wanted to let students and the community know about the capabilities of AR/VR.”

Chin established the club in ATLAS because he thought it would thrive in an eclectic environment; also, the Mixed Reality Lab had opened in fall 2016, with 10 Oculus VR headsets donated by the manufacturer.

ATLAS Director Mark Gross says, “Thanks to Dan Szafir’s class, the AR/VR club and the Mixed Reality Lab, we have established a lively community of students and researchers building virtual worlds for design, art, entertainment, health and more. It’s great to see it take off.”

Chin graduates this summer, but he’s looking forward to seeing how the club progresses in the future.

"AR/VR is kind of a wild west," he says, "Companies are still discovering the capabilities, and it’s open season for people to explore."

Other AR/VR club member projects

Audio Visual Playground
Clean Getaway
Send Only Memories
Crossovr

Information and club membership

An ATLAS club has led to prestigious internships, a national hackathon win and permanent employment for some of its members.

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Triple major Emma Wu is ready for a little down time

Anonymous — Thu, 10 May 2018 22:53:53 +0000

Triple major Emma Wu is ready for a little down time Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 05/10/2018 - 16:53

Emma Wu is graduating on time, having completed three majors in three different colleges, a minor and working two jobs. She built her academic program around her TAM major.

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Spring graduation numbers multiply eightfold as BS CTD popularity soars

Anonymous — Wed, 09 May 2018 21:44:26 +0000

Spring graduation numbers multiply eightfold as BS CTD popularity soars Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 05/09/2018 - 15:44

The third class to graduate with the ATLAS Institute's Bachelor of Science degree in Technology, Arts & Media (TAM) includes 24 students, eight times the number of students to walk the aisle just one year ago when the institute’s first undergraduate degrees were conferred.

The spring 2018 group graduates just three years after the interdisciplinary major in the College of Engineering and Applied Science was established. And looking ahead, projections are for nearly 60 additional students to graduate with TAM degrees during the 2018-19 school year, making it the fastest growing undergraduate degree programs at CU ��«��Ƶ.

The TAM bachelor's degree grew out of the ATLAS Institute’s popular TAM minor and certificate programs, which were launched in the late 1990s and now enroll around 1,000 students, more than 50 percent of whom are women. While students can combine the TAM minor or certificate with any undergraduate degree at CU ��«��Ƶ, students must be admitted to the College of Engineering and Applied Science to pursue the TAM major.

Emma Wu displays a website she designed and coded.

Graduating senior Emma Wu said she originally enrolled as a TAM minor, but quickly switched to a TAM major after taking her first class.

“TAM is my favorite,” says Wu, who receives three degrees from three different colleges on May 10, along with a minor in business. “TAM truly allowed me to explore myself at the edge of technology and creativity. The instructors are so supportive of this community, and TAM is what I connect to the most because of the support.”

After graduation, Wu plans to look for a position as a user interface/user experience (UI/UX) designer in New York City.

“If I hadn’t taken David Schaal's Web class, I wouldn't know how much I love web development and UI/UX design,” continues Wu, who has two jobs: a web and poster designer for CU ��«��Ƶ’s Student Academic Success Center, and a digital designer for a private firm. “I worked on one of his projects till three in the morning and did not realize the time.”

Graduate degrees
ATLAS also confers nine Master of Science degrees this May, including four from the Creative Technologies + Design (CTD) track and five from Information & Communication Technology for Development.

Angel Lam, a graduating CTD student advised by industry mentor Andy Stone, created “Yokaido” for her senior design project. A platform to leverage the collaborative energy of fandom, Yokaido provides a new way to share Japanese anime with the world.

“From a very young age, anime has been my source of courage, passion and strength, and I wanted to share that with the world,” Lam says. “I chose the CTD program because I wanted to start an anime company, and the program allowed me the flexibility to do so. I came to ATLAS to get the skills to turn it into a real company.”

Ian Smith focused on 3D design for his master's degree.

Ian Smith, another graduating CTD student, arrived at ATLAS with a film background and wanted to learn technical skills that would “take him to the next level.” Smith was advised by ATLAS Senior Instructor Aileen Pierce for his thesis project, "Protoplanet," an open-source platform for mixed-reality prototyping.

“I am leaving CTD with a whole range of computer science abilities I didn’t have before,” he says. “I never could have imagined two years ago that I would be programming network architecture. That’s been an interesting shift for me. It’s not something I was comfortable with, but now I can say, 'I know how to do it, and I know how to do it well.' ”

As the door closes on another academic year, ATLAS is already busy laying plans for the fall and beyond, with new labs opening and existing academic programs expanding. “The next few years are going to be transformational for ATLAS,” says ATLAS Director Mark Gross. “This year has seen a lot of change, but it’s only the beginning.”

The third class to graduate with the ATLAS Institute's Bachelor of Science degree in Technology, Arts & Media includes 24 students, eight times the number of students to walk the aisle just one year ago.

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"The Show" explores relationships through dance and digital technology

Anonymous — Tue, 01 May 2018 18:23:28 +0000

"The Show" explores relationships through dance and digital technology Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 05/01/2018 - 12:23

Emily Daub is fascinated by human interactions: How people change while in or out of relationships; how they value themselves in the context of their relationship status; how changes in relationships affect us; and how each relationship differs from another.

On May 4, Daub brings her fascination to life in an ambitious dance performance that features a wide spectrum of dance styles and handmade costumes equipped with embedded computational and wireless communications technologies.

Titled “The Show,” the performance is billed as a variety dance performance that “tells the story of how we shape and mold others (and vice versa),” writes Daub, who graduates in May with a bachelor’s degree from the ATLAS Institute’s Technology, Arts and Media (TAM) program, along with a minor in theatre and dance.

Masterminding both the art and engineering is a comfortable role for Daub, which strikes some as unusual. “I've almost always been an outlier,” Daub says. “TAM fosters that spirit, allowing it to become an asset rather than a handicap.”

Daub entered CU ��«��Ƶ as a chemistry major with plans to attend medical school, but soon decided it wasn’t the right path for her. A member of the Fashion Design Student Association (FDSA), she found her way to the TAM program via the Makers Collective, another student group. “Someone from the Makers Collective reached out with a project that involved inserting lights in clothing,” says Daub. “That caught my interest.”

She worked on a swing dance skirt, inserting an accelerometer and 70 LEDs in the hem and coding them so the LEDs would light when the wearer spun. Soon after, she became the president of the Makers Collective, and because club activities happened in the ATLAS Blow Things Up (BTU) Lab, she learned about the TAM program. Since then, she’s created more than 20 pieces of wearable technology of varying levels of complexity, “The Show” being her most ambitious project to date.

Daub says she couldn’t have reached this point without support, including funding from an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) grant which covered all the materials. And working under the mentorship of Ben Shapiro as a member of the ATLAS research group, The Laboratory for Playful Computation, meant she was surrounded by a group of supportive graduate students. “Annie Kelly was so, so helpful,” says Daub, referring to a PhD student in the lab.

“The Show” has kept Daub busy since January, designing and sewing costumes, embedding microprocessors, sensors and NeoPixel LEDs, and programming each with unique light patterns that respond to movement and the wearer’s proximity to other dancers over time.

In addition, she’s encoded a matrix of affinities between dancers, so that when characters with mutual attraction dance together, light patterns in their costumes reflect the personal chemistry and gradually converge. At the same time, analogous changes take place in the pair's dance styles, Daub says.

While the technical side of her work tends to draw the most attention, Daub prefers to be known for her artistry in a more holistic sense. She’s choreographed “The Show,” and will perform alongside six other dancers, and she’s proud of her costumes and how the embedded technology looks and works. “How finished products look is very important to me,” she says. “I've gotten to this point mostly because the things I make are beautiful and functional, not because they are technically complex,” says Daub.

It’s the same way she’s always approached her projects, forming one coherent vision and then solving problems in order to realize it. “I’m motivated to achieve a specific outcome, not to just push my skills,” she says.

If you go

Who: Open to everyone!
What: “The Show,” a variety dance performance
When: Friday, May 4, 6:30 p.m.
Where: Black Box Experimental Theater, Roser ATLAS Center, 1125 18th St., ��«��Ƶ
Cost: Free, but donations for the dancers will be accepted during the performance.
Registration required

Photo album
UROP Video
Inspiration and promise mark CU ��«��Ƶ graduating class (Daily Camera)

TAM senior Emily Daub is fascinated by how people are changed by their relationships. In her ambitious dance performance, she explores these ideas, featuring a wide range of dance styles and dance costumes that she designed with embedded wearable technology.

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ATLAS Instructor Christopher Carruth wins award for outstanding teaching

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 20:32:19 +0000

ATLAS Instructor Christopher Carruth wins award for outstanding teaching Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 04/20/2018 - 14:32

He is enthusiastic, knowledgeable, amusing, respectful and he cares, say students of ATLAS Institute Instructor Christopher Carruth, who earlier this week was awarded a 2018 Marinus Smith Award for outstanding teaching.

Carruth, who currently teaches two courses—Meaning of Information Technology and Advanced Image—for the Technology, Arts and Media program is characteristically deprecating about the honor: “The young women and men I have the pleasure of interacting with never fail to amaze me,” he says. “They make me a better person. I am honored to share in this part of their journey.”

When she was a student, Jessica Masson took three of Carruth’s classes and completed an independent study under his supervision. “You feel like he cares about you as both a student and a person. He exudes an enthusiasm for teaching and empowering students,” says Masson, who is now an OIT technical support analyst for CU ��«��Ƶ.

When she first enrolled in the TAM program, Masson felt like her academic life and personal goals were at a standstill, and taking Meaning of Information Technology shifted her perspective completely. “Chris cared about each of our voices and rekindled my love of education and poetry,” she says. “He taught me that my dreams weren’t naïve; I could do anything I set my mind to.”

Several nominations spoke to Carruth’s dedication: “I really appreciate that he engaged with me on a personal level,” writes one woman. “We would write weekly responses on Edmodo, and he read each and every one, week in and week out, for over a hundred students. That level of dedication is amazing to me, and that's why I am nominating him.”

The same individual wrote, “I left every class feeling inspired. This is the first class I have ever taken where I didn't just learn the bare minimum to get a good grade. I spent my free time reading the rest of books where he would pull a few pages for us to read, and I followed all of the links he gave us to view the full articles, because I always left class wanting to go learn more.”

Other nominators describe how they were similarly drawn in: “I have never had a teacher so talented at presenting ideas, engaging his students, and getting his students excited about the topic.”Another nomination reads, “Chris was the most forward/real/compassionate/ smooth/well-spoken professor I have ever had. His kind words and charismatic personality made the learning environment something we as students wish every class was like.

Chris Carruth (ATLAS) stands with other winners of the Marinus Smith Award from New Student and Family Programs. The award recognizes faculty and staff who have had a particularly positive impact on students. They are nominated by those they teach, mentor and support.

The teaching award is named after Marinus Smith, a 19th century ��«��Ƶ resident whose significant contributions of land and money made it possible for the university to locate close to the base of the Flatirons in ��«��Ƶ.

Criteria for the student-nominated award state, nominees must advance the quality of education or the student experience at CU ��«��Ƶ; model the integrity and ethical conduct expected of CU ��«��Ƶ students; demonstrate a high degree of respect for the contribution of every member of the CU ��«��Ƶ community; benefit the CU ��«��Ƶ community by demonstrating excellence in their service and fostering a campus environment of inclusion, collaboration and personal responsibility.

TAM Director Matt Bethancourt commented on the recognition saying, “This honor is well-deserved. Students rave to me about their experience with Chris in MIT. He’s a fantastic instructor, and we are lucky to have him on our team.”

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Microsoft Research workshop gives new life to old toys

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 19:25:54 +0000

Microsoft Research workshop gives new life to old toys Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 03/20/2018 - 13:25

The assignment is to play with remote control cars. Well actually, break them up and use the parts to build something else. It's an apt assignment for Arielle Hein’s Object class, which meets in the ATLAS Blow Things Up Lab.

Using screwdrivers, pliers and whatever else they can find, students pull engines and drive trains from cars, dump trucks and drag racers, and connect them to micro:bit controllers to create custom sleds or "junk bots," from cardboard and other recycled materials. Instead of soldered circuit boards, they use loose wires and crocodile clips and binders to connect components. As students' creations take shape and come to life, the tempo in the room steps up a notch as the sound of wiring motors blends with laughter and conversation.

The March 2 workshop was led by Peli de Halleux, a principal software development engineer for Microsoft Research, who brought with him dozens of remote control cars purchased from thrift shops in Seattle. De Halleux’s workshops typically involve common classroom materials and scrap electronics for participants to make into interactive electronic devices.

De Halleux uses this approach in middle and high schools to teach circuits because kids usually don’t have the dexterity to work with microcontrollers, soldering irons and breadboards. This workshop was the first time de Halleux had tried the approach with adults.

“It is a chance for students to work with motors without getting in the weeds of breadboards and circuits,” says Ben Shapiro, assistant professor in the ATLAS Institute and the Department of Computer Science.

Juliet Luna and her partner crafted a yellow submarine from cardboard and hot glue, attached markers as legs and then weighted the salvaged DC motor so the submarine shook when the motor was activated, causing the legs to draw on the paper below it. “We do a lot of fun things in the TAM program, but this workshop made me feel like a kid again,” says Luna, who plans to graduate in 2019 with a TAM minor.

For Hein, it was exciting to watch her students use micro:bits for the first time. Some groups made relays using the micro:bit, which allows control of two motors. Other groups incorporated a second micro:bit as a wireless controller using the built-in radio feature of the board.

“They were able to do so much with the materials,” Hein says. “The micro:bit has a lot of built-in sensors and inputs, but the best part is that two micro:bits can be easily configured to communicate with each other over radio signals. This means that one micro:bit can be used to wirelessly control another.”

Luna says students helped each other with their projects. “The BTU lab is such a cooperative environment,” she says. “The space encourages students to take more risks and push boundaries. The people you get inspiration from don't need to be experts. It was a blast. What other class allows you to take apart cars and build cardboard submarines?”

YouTube video (For those who want to try this at home.)
Microsoft workshop photo album

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T9Hacks continues to grow and thrive

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 22:44:57 +0000

T9Hacks continues to grow and thrive Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 02/16/2018 - 15:44

Despite a significant snowstorm, organizers of an ATLAS student-run hackathon, T9Hacks, once again reached their goals of increasing participants and attracting a majority of women to the creative coding marathon.

Led by ATLAS doctoral student Brittany Kos, this year's T9Hacks drew more than 130 participants, 70 percent of them female and non-binary, with 65 percent of the participants first-time hackers. In 2017, 110 people attended, with 60 percent of participants women/nonbinary.

The 24-hour event, which began Feb. 10, is geared toward college students and recent college grads, especially women, non-binary and transgender students—the “T9” stands for “Title IX,” a U.S. amendment that prohibits gender-based discrimination in educational settings. In general, Hackathons—marathon creative coding and making events—are mostly attended by men, with female-to-male ratios often as low as 1 to 15.

For some, T9Hacks was an opportunity to attend their first hackathon, for others, it was a chance to venture out and try new technology for the first time. Teams of participants completed projects in three areas; cybersecurity, creative tech and tech for social impact. Workshops were available for beginners and mentors were available throughout to consult and support participants.

Working in teams, participants programmed and built creative software projects ranging from Happy Ivy, an app that encourages people with bipolar disorder to finish their tasks, to PeekPeak, an app that helps users save money by reducing utility usage during peak periods.

This year's winners and project descriptions can be found on Devpost, with special recognition from T9Hack's organizers for these projects: Autonoponics, by Tatiana Blanco and Vi Nguyen, an autonomous aquaponics system which allows users to grow food with a minimum amount of effort and cost; ��«��Ƶ Crime Explorer, by Carl Cortright and Shubha Swamy, a data visualization tool that maps crime locations within ��«��Ƶ; and EFI Emergency WIFI, by Cassandra Goodby and Ryan Craig, an emergency WIFI system that can be set up quickly and easily.

In addition to lead sponsorship from ATLAS, the event received major support from Workday, Zayo Group, Google, SketchUp and MD5. Circadence, Major League Hacking, CU ��«��Ƶ's College of Engineering and Applied Science, TechChange and the National Center for Women & Information Technology also provided sponsorship.

For those who missed T9Hacks and those attendees who didn't get enough, don't despair; T9Hacks happens again next fall. Those interested in joining the planning team should visit the T9Hacks website.

T9Hacks photo album

Creative coding marathon attracts a majority of women and first-time hackers.

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Lady in Tech empowers young women to become technologists

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 19:36:19 +0000

Lady in Tech empowers young women to become technologists Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 02/07/2018 - 12:36

"I love the spirit and joy and creativity in tech,” says Hayley Leibson, a 2015 CU ��«��Ƶ alumna and founder of a blog dedicated to empowering women to pursue technology-related careers. Just two-and-a-half years after graduating from CU—and completing her Technology, Arts and Media (TAM) minor—and only 10 months after launching her website, Leibson has already made the blog, Lady in Tech, her day job, accumulating a combined following of 25,000 and winning widespread recognition for her work.

Leibson was recently interviewed for a radio show, “Breaking Silicon Valley's Glass Ceiling,” broadcast by the BBC World Service. She was also interviewed for a BBC series “100 Women,” that examines the role of women in contemporary society from multiple angles. Other recognition includes The Institute of Code’s “Women in Tech” award, and she was a semifinalist for the "We Rise” award from The Hivery, a women's coworking space in the Bay Area. She recently extended her reach, becoming a Forbes contributor.

Lady In Tech

Leibson is clear about her mission: "I want to inspire, motivate and move millennial women to enter the tech industry,” she says.

Quoting Marian Wright Edelman, “You can’t be what you can’t see,” Leibson says she writes about women who have developed careers in the technology sector to inspire others to do the same. Her profiles tend to focus on entry and mid-level professionals because, she says, “[they] are more relatable than the Sheryl Sandbergs of the world.” (Sandberg is the chief operating officer of Facebook.)

She also partners with technology conferences, which she attends and writes about, giving early career professionals who can’t afford large conference price tags access to some of the key takeaways.

She says she built her following primarily using Twitter and Facebook.

“I was able to grow an audience for this kind of content because nothing like it existed,” says Leibson. “I knew I was on the right path when I attended tech events and people would say, ‘I heard about what you’re doing,’ or ‘I read about you.’ Or when I got messages from women saying, ‘Hey, I didn’t think I could be an IOS developer until I read the article you wrote, and then I took the classes you recommended and got my dream job.’”

The road to inclusion advocacy

Leibson’s story began in her Northern California hometown, where she says women were not encouraged to become engineers or pursue STEM careers. At CU ��«��Ƶ she first pursued environmental journalism and then communications. She says one of her best college decisions was to take TAM classes at the ATLAS Institute.

“I believe TAM was the most valuable part of my CU ��«��Ƶ education... Joel Swanson’s Fundamentals of Digital Design class taught me the technical skills necessary to become a critically thoughtful and articulate designer. It wasn’t just about designing projects, but about designing everything I do.”

She also traces her sense of purpose to her experience in the program. “Through TAM, I discovered the best way to make a positive impact on the world is through technology, and I have carried this belief forward ever since,” says Leibson. “We must work toward creating a future where the people who imagine and build technology mirror the people and societies for whom they build it.”

After graduating early with honors in 2015, Leibson spent time in London pursuing a culinary arts program and learning about London’s startup ecosystem, but she was disappointed when she couldn't find a community supporting aspiring female founders.

Upon returning to the U.S., Leibson moved to San Francisco, launching Lady in Tech in April, 2017. Surrounded by a community of women eager to enter tech fields, the site took off.

In addition to writing, Leibson consults. She's worked with the makers of the social media app Hey! VINA, which connects platonic female friends, as well as Omidyar Network, Uber, Prezi and TechCrunch. She's also actively supports communities for TEDxSanFrancisco, the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, and Women in Product, a nonprofit dedicated to increasing diversity and inclusion in product management.

“We need all perspectives and viewpoints represented as we build the future,” Leibson says. “Utilizing the talent that exists means we’re assembling smarter, more innovative teams.

“My best advice for aspiring female technologists: aim to make the most impact you can on the world.”

TAM graduate Hayley Leibson is unstoppable. With an award-winning blog and widespread media attention, her message is reaching thousands of millenials.

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Zim360 Takes Virtual Travel Up a Notch

Anonymous — Sat, 23 Dec 2017 02:46:25 +0000

Zim360 Takes Virtual Travel Up a Notch Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 12/22/2017 - 19:46

BS TAM senior Mike Gough completed a 360 video project using footage shot during the spring 2017 semester, which he spent in Zimbabwe. This video about the project is beautifully produced; stay tuned for information about how to actually access the VR Zim360 experience itself.

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