Take a picture of you and your big/little completing as many of these tasks as you can! Each task is worth a certain amount of points and the pairing with the most points at the end of the semester will be given the honor of being the BEST Big/Little SWEet pair at UMBC (and a sweet prize)!!!

For any questions contact Stacy Sumedi at ssumedi2@umbc.edu

Rules

• Pictures/videos must include one big and one little SWEet.
• Pictures/videos must be uploaded to Instagram and tagged @umbcswe with a caption including the task being performed and the names of the big/little pair.
• All pictures/videos can only count for one task.
• All tasks can only be completed once by each pairing.
• Tasks can be interpreted however you’d like (get creative and have fun with them!)
• NO inappropriate pictures/videos. Any inappropriate pictures/videos will be taken down and will not be given points.
• NO photoshop. Any pictures/videos using photoshop will not be given points.
• All pictures/videos must be submitted by 11:59 PM Tuesday, May 10th 2015

·      Tasks:

• Take a picture with your big/little at a SWE GBM [1 point]
• Take a picture with your big/little studying at a SWE Study Session [2 point]
• Take a picture with your big/little at a SWE Social Event [3 points]
• Take a picture with your big/little at a SWE Outreach Event [5 points]
• Take a picture with your big/little at the 2014 SWE National Conference [10 points]
• Take a picture with your big/little using some SWE swag [1 point]
• Take a picture with your big/little with a member of the SWEboard [1 point]
• Take a picture with your big/little with UMBC SWE President Shelby Coppolino [2 points]
• Take a picture with your big/little with UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski [10 points]
• Take a picture with your big/little with the UMBC retriever statue [1 point]
• Take a picture with your big/little eating lunch together [1 point]
• Take a picture with your big/little at the commons [1 point]
• Take a picture with your big/little at the library [1 point]
• Take a picture with your big/little on the quad [1 point]
• Take a picture with your big/little in front of the Biological Sciences Building [1 point]
• Take a picture with your big/little in front of the Math & Psychology Building [1 point]
• Take a picture with your big/little in front of Sondheim Hall [1 point]
• Take a picture with your big/little in front of Sherman Hall [1 point]
• Take a picture with your big/little in front of the University Center [1 point]
• Take a picture with your big/little in front of the Meyerhoff Building [1 point]
• Take a picture with your big/little in front of the Fine Arts Building [1 point]
• Take a picture with your big/little in front of the Engineering Building [1 point]
• Take a picture with your big/little in front of the ITE Building [1 point]
• Take a picture with your big/little in front of the Performing Arts & Humanities Building [1 point]
• Take a picture with your big/little in front of the Public Policy Building [1 point]
• Take a picture with your big/little in front of the Physics Building [1 point]
• Take a picture with your big/little playing on Erickson Field [2 points]
• Take a picture with your big/little eating together at True Grit’s [2 points]
• Take a picture with your big/little working out at the RAC [2 points]
• Take a picture with your big/little watching a movie together [2 point]
• Take a picture with your big/little at a UMBC sporting event [3 points]
• Take a picture with your big/little doing something related to your engineering major [3 points]
• Take a picture with your big/little with an engineering professor [3 points]
• Take a picture with your big/little in your engineering department [1 point]
• Take a 10 second video with your big/little dancing together [2 points]
• Take a 10 second video with your big/little singing a song together [2 points]
• Take a 10 second video with your big/little singing a song about SWE [3 points]
• Take a 15 second video with your big/little describing why you love SWE [4 points]
• Take a 15 second video with your big/little describing why they are the best big/little ever! [3 points]

• Walden Circle, contact Joel Baker, jbaker13@umbc.edu
• Lakeland Young Explorers, send completed application to  Zach Pekor, zpekor@umbc.edu

Volunteer openings are still available for these programs (Walden Circle, M-Thurs) and Lakeland Young Explorers (M-Thurs). 

Jo Anne Cottrell

Role at the UMBC Career Center: Office Manager

Q:Where have you earned your college degrees?

A: Towson University

Q: What program(s) did you study? How did you choose your major?

A: I studied 3 languages in High School and knew that I wanted to pursue languages in college.  I graduated with a BA in Spanish.

Q: What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?

A: Think for yourself

Q: Why should students visit the Career Center?

A: Students should visit the Career Center to explore the range of possibilities that they can pursue with their education.

Q: What is your favorite aspect about UMBC?

A: UMBC is a very supportive environment which encourages participation at all levels on campus.

Q: What is one item on your bucket list?

A: I have always wanted to live in a foreign country.  Someplace in Europe would be ideal for the travel opportunities it would present.

Want to connect with Jo Anne or any of our great Career Center team? Call our office at 410-455-2216 or check out our contact us page here: http://careers.umbc.edu/aboutus/

At the Fall Career Fair next week you are going to need a resume. You will probably find a company that will want to give YOU an internship or a job. The first thing they might ask you for is your resume. If you don’t have your resume updated, don’t panic. I have some tips on how you can show your already impressive accomplishments.

Your resume gives you 30 seconds to grab the reviewer’s attention and get into the yes pile.  You might be thinking: “That sounds impossible!”

It’s not impossible. There are actually a few easy steps that you can take that will place your resume in the YES pile. 

STEP 1:  Create a list of all relevant coursework, projects, work/volunteer experiences, and organizations in which you have participated. All of these things add significant value to your resume.

STEP 2:  Identify the important skills, achievements, and interests that you want to highlight on your resume.

STEP 3:  Develop descriptive phrases for your experiences. Qualify and Quantify what you accomplished on a daily basis. Develop statements like these for your course projects also. Start these phrases with strong action verbs.

STEP 4:  Put your resume into an organized format. Keep your formatting clear and consistent throughout the document. Your font can be between 10.5 and 12pt. and margins can be between .5 and 1 inch.

STEP 5:  Upload your resume to UMBCworks for review. Then come to drop-in hours or schedule an appointment with your career adviser.

Here are some additional Do’s and Don’t’s of resume writing:

Do:

Don’t:

The resume is not the only thing employers at the Fall Career Fair will be looking for. Here are some tips for Job Fair Etiquette. 

My last tip to prepare for this Career Fair is to start researching the employers who will be in attendance now. You can find the list at the bottom of the page HERE. Identify what skills you have that these companies need and make sure those skills are highlighted on your resume.

The Career Center has a lot more tips to resume writing. Check out the UMBC Career Guide for resume tips specific to UMBC students! If you are having trouble with starting your resume, have additional questions, or want to get your resume approved the Career Center has drop-in hours from 2 – 4pm Monday – Friday at the Career Center in Math/Psych 212, and 6 – 8pm Tuesday and Wednesday in the Library at the Writing Center. 

Last weekend, over 170 college and high school students converged upon UMBC for the second hackUMBC hackathon. This free event, spanning 24 continuous hours, brought students together to create, make, or otherwise “hack” together new technology projects, either individually or as a team. As with many hackathons, there was no limit to the type of technology students could work on — hackUMBC 2014 projects ranged from developing mobile apps and assistive/wearable technologies to applied virtual reality representations of cyberspace, a ‘smart’ autonomous tank, and reverse-engineering (and then porting to Linux) the Myo command protocol. The sky was the limit in terms of ideas and skill levels — indeed, many attendees were first-time “hackers” looking to learn programming or engineering concepts in an inclusive and fun environment.

Following opening ceremonies and brief remarks by the sponsors and UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski, participants took over the second floor ITE classrooms Saturday-into-Sunday before moving into the UC Ballroom to showcase their products before a panel of judges. Prizes were awarded for the most innovative, polished, complex, and useful ideas/technologies.

hackUMBC 2014 was well-supported by corporate sponsors, including Raytheon, Microsoft, Northrop Grumman, MITRE, and ClearEdge Solutions, among others. Campus partners included the Alex Brown Center for Enterpreneurship and the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. Additional support, participant encouragement, and round-the-clock motivational energy was provided by Mike Swift, chairman of Major League Hacking.

hackUMBC was organized and run by Michael Bishoff (Junior, CMPE), Randi Williams (Junior, CMPE), and Minhaz Mahmud (Senior, CMSC). CSEE’s Dr. Rick Forno serves as faculty advisor.

Special thanks to the UMBC volunteer judges Dr. Charles Nicholas, Shawn Lupoli, Geoff Weiss, and the many student volunteers who assisted in making the event a success.

Opening Ceremonies…

UMBC’s Sekar Kulandaivel (Junior, CMPE) talks about his summer internship at Northrop Grumman and what his team was able to “hack” together for the company…

UMBC President Hrabowski…

Hard at work through the day, night, and following morning…

Many attendees came prepared…

Showcase & Judging on Sunday …

For more information on hackUMBC visit the club’s website or contact the club at Sorry, you need javascript to view this email address.

(photos by MLH and/or Rick Forno)