Happy May! We hope you are enjoying the amazing weather and exploring the outdoors! Go outside and catch some sun ☀️!

❗❗IMPORTANT: Mentors Needed This Summer

We still need mentors for this summer’s Public Interest Lab Fellowship (for more context see here: https://hackny.org/blog/hackny-and-tech-bono).There are a bunch of really amazing non-profits that PIL is currently reviewing applications from, including Bronx Tech Hub, multiple local community gardens / land trusts, TakeRoot Justice, The Distributed AI Research Institute, and more; as well as lots of great candidates to work on projects for them. This as an opportunity for mentors to collaborate with fantastic non-profits while mentoring junior engineers.

Program dates: end June to early Aug, demo day is the first week of August

Mentor commitment: <5 hours a week of supervising a team of ~3 college students / entry-level engineers and providing support with system design, product / project management -> you are basically ideally the project lead helping things stay organized and get over the line.

Ideal mentors: Ideal mentors have at least a few years of work experience and are NYC-based (fellows are NYC-based and there will be in-person socials / hackathons throughout the summer). Commitment can be fully outside of work hours and doesn't need to conflict with your 9-5.

To express interest, please DM Shelly (h’17) on Slack (@shelly). If you're interested but have questions / are not quite sure if you're a fit, please still reach out to Shelly. The program could really use alumNY support to make the first year of PIL a success.

Here’s what our alum have been up to recently:

Congratulations Jacob!

Jacob (h’17) recently got engaged to his fiancee Caelin! Congratulations 😻 💞!!

📆 Events!

Check out the following events taking place:

• 📖 Book Club Meeting: The next hackNY Book Club meeting will be taking place June 2nd! The book to read is Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (it’s very short)! Please RSVP for an enlightening discussion, snacks, and old & new friends! You do not need to read 100% of the book, and all are welcome, including friends of hackNY! Please RSVP here: https://partiful.com/e/HWNut6p43LdI3wygPjod?c=t0AvLsIb

• 💻 SF Internet Archive: Ray (h’18) is helping organize some SF events with Internet Archive to get people excited for dweb camp in Berlin this July. If anyone wants to volunteer for the Berlin event then this week is the deadline to get something in https://dwebcamp.org/

• 🎻 String Orchestra of Brooklyn: Lucie (h’21) is performing with the String Orchestra of Brooklyn in Brooklyn Heights on May 30th at 8pm! The program theme is "Tragic Love Stories" and features music from a Hitchcock film, a ballet and an opera.
  Advance tickets: https://checkout.square.site/merchant/CBGK63TWJS4QY/checkout/4AWATCXD2APAHZKL2BMNIVFY
  General: $15
  Student/senior: $10

Jobs

• David (NYC): David (the protein bar company!) is hiring a software engineer for all levels. You can read more about the role here: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4412132834/

• BME Strategies (Remote): BME Strategies is hiring a Junior Engineer, AI. You can read more about the role here: https://apply.workable.com/bme-strategies/j/D7B9F6AE6D/

That’s it for now! As always, if you want your cool things to be on the next newsletter, share them with us via Slack. Have a wonderful day, hackNY!

Cheers,

Gloria 😄 😜 ☮️

PS: I (Gloria) am bittersweetingly moving out of NYC to start work in the Greater Boston area 🥲. Please stay in touch (I lurk on slackNY very often), and I’ll hopefully be able to make frequent visits back to NYC! Bye for now, NYC 👋!