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Back in the '60s, my pops graduated from the Railway College in Jamalpur, India and began his very short career as a railway engineer. While his peers enjoyed riding the footboards, inspecting rights of way, and traveling in their private train cars—he found himself underwhelmed. I'm not sure that he was looking for a complete career change, but he definitely aspired to more. So, he took a wild chance and applied to grad school in the U.S, ending up at Carnegie Mellon. In Pittsburgh, he discovered his passion for economics & accounting, an opportunity to apply his engineering skills, and a path toward a successful & fulfilling career in academia. I've never seen my pops upset about work or dreading another day at the office. And he doesn't look back at what could have been, even though many of his old classmates are now senior leaders in the Indian Railway system. As you head back to college, keep this in mind: your major and your studies are a starting point. Nobody expects you to program in Python for the rest of your life. Take a history class. See what your friends in the drama department are up to. Take the LSAT if you've got the inkling. You've got the time and maybe you'll like it. Change can be evolutionary or revolutionary; there isn't a "right way" to find job satisfaction. But no matter where you go or what you want to do, the skills you've learned will help you get there. Online hackathons NEW!! PropTech Challenge—presented by REBNY During the PropTech Challenge, you'll develop cutting edge solutions to solve real world challenges for NYC’s real estate market. There is a grand total of $50,000 in cash prizes, which will be awarded to twelve finalists at Demo Day on November 8th in New York City. Bonus: Thanks to REBNY, you will have ongoing access to representatives from many of the largest real estate firms who can provide mentoring, insight, and guidance about the industry & major pain points. Amazon Aurora Database Challenge In the first ever Aurora challenge, Amazon is challenging developers around the world to build an application that can reach internet scale using Amazon Aurora, a MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible relational database. Prizes include $24,000 in cash and AWS credits! Judges will be looking for scalability, performance, security, and resilience while making use of the AWS ecosystem. They'll reward good development practices, including continuous integration & continuous delivery, microservices, serverless computing, and other modern design ideas. UiPath Power Up Automation Deadline extended until August 29th! UiPath is on a mission to help developers automate repetitive workplace processes and to increase employee productivity. In this competition, you'll build open source, reusable components using the UiPath Studio for a chance at over $91,000 in cash & available prizes, and additional exposure to the UiPath company, community, and customers. Submissions will fall into one of six categories: custom activities, dashboard components, automation frameworks, application connectors, snippets, or machine learning models. The AWS AI Hackathon Put your skills to the test by applying language and vision intelligence to a new or existing application and win $10,000 in prizes! Use language and vision APIs including Amazon Comprehend, Amazon Transcribe, Amazon Polly, Amazon Lex, Amazon Translate, and Amazon Rekognition to gain customer insights, personalize content recommendations, identify celebrities, objects and scenes, and much more! Genomelink Hackathon 2.0 Last year, the number of people who analyzed their DNA more than doubled. Genomic data has the potential to inform our approach to nutrition, fitness, personality, cognition, and more. So, how can you use this data effectively? By using Genomelink's API during their new hackathon! The Genomelink API provides insights on genetic traits of interest with just a few lines of code and without advanced requirements like genomics expertise or knowing how to securely handle raw DNA data. That means that you’ll be able to rapidly integrate DNA-personalization into your app. There are $7,000 in prizes available—get after it! TokBok Live Video and AR Online Hackathon Have some summer fun with Live Video and compete for $2,520 in prizes! Build a new mobile and/or web app that connects people together in an original business or socially relevant way, wherever they are, over live video using the TokBox OpenTok APIs. With TokBox, it's easy to embed high-quality real-time interactive video, voice, messaging, and screen sharing into web & mobile apps. Amazon Alexa Skills Challenge: Tech for Good Build Alexa Skills that have a positive impact on the environment and local communities. Your skill can be in any category, as long as it delivers a seamless voice experience and solves a customer problem or inspires customers to take action. There are $122,000 in prizes across multiple categories, including a direct donation of $20,000 from Amazon to one of 11 nonprofit organizations and 500 Echo dots for participants! AWS Serverless Apps for Social Good Hackathon Win $22,000 in prizes by creating new serverless applications that support nonprofits working to end human trafficking. Your app can be a stand-alone asset or an input to other applications. All apps will be published to the AWS Serverless Application Repository. XDHax Xero Developer Challenge With 1.4M customers, Xero's accounting software reaches small businesses all over the world. Get your app in front of those captive users by integrating with Xero's APIs and win up to $30,000 in prizes! More hackathons Local hackathons in August–October Roc Hacks, Rochester, NY Health Hacks 2018, Richmond, VA New York Sextech Hackathon, Brooklyn, NY MS HACKS 2.0, Kapurthala, India Millibit Hacks, Fremont, CA BelHacks, Redwood City, CA Hack The City Hackathon, Melbourne, Australia Grow Up Cannabis Hackathon, Toronto, Canada TeenHacks Civic Hackathon, San Jose, CA First Annual AdaHacks!, Sunnyvale, CA SRC Code, Fremont, CA Smart Energy Hackathon, Khwaeng Bang Lamphu Lang, Thailand MXHacks V, Mexico City WyoHackathon 2018, Laramie, WY Cascadia PHP API for Social Good, Portland, OR Global Youth Health Summit: Hackathon, Hong Kong Media Hack Nord, Bremen, Germany The Grand Hack, Reading, UK HackZurich 2018, Zürich, Switzerland HackRice 8, Houston, TX HackTrain Powered by InnoTrans, Berlin, Germany ImpactHack, Washington, DC Blocfest 2018 Hackathon, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia MIT Hackathon -- Surgical Healthcare Challenge, Irvine, CA New Futures Hackathon for AR/VR, Newcastle, Australia Service Delivery Ignite Hackathon, Sandton, South Africa PYGHACK 2018, Champaign, IL hackNY Fall 2018, New York, NY Qolty's Digital Health Challenge, Los Angeles, CA SASEhack @ SASE National Conference and STEM Career Fair 2018, Schaumburg, IL Hack Upstate XII, Syracuse, NY HackUIowa '18, Iowa City, IA GlobalHack VII - Oct. 12-14, 2018, St. Louis, MO 1. Provinzial Rheinland Hackathon: Future of Insurance, Düsseldorf, Germany Power The Future DesignAthon, Richmond, VA HackGT 5: Dare to Venture, Atlanta, GA Opportunity Hack 2018 Arizona, Phoenix, AZ IoT Hack Day 2018, Saint Paul, MN AEC Tech 2018: Interpolations, New York, NY Malta Blockchain Hackathon, Saint Julian's, Malta You signed up for this newsletter at Devpost. Unsubscribe ☹ or adjust your email settings. Sent from Devpost, Inc. 222 Broadway 19th Floor New York, NY 10038 USA