Conner Pinson, Programming & Computing

[Hackcon VII] Attracting non-STEM Majors to Hackathons

Aug 25, 2019

Preface This is the original transcript of the Lightning Talk I gave at MLH Hackcon VII. While I was actually presenting, I went very off script. I'm an improviser at heart. However, the original draft is much more informative and detailed so I decid...

The Benefit of Academic Summer Camps for High Schoolers (and the People who Instruct Them)

Jul 24, 2019

Background I spent two summers working with academic summer programs for ages ranging from 14 to 18. The first I was in a non-educational role, simply looking after students. The second I worked as an instructor as well as a instructor in computer sc...

A Student's Summer with Machine Learning

Jul 23, 2019

Get in the TensorFlow This summer I took a research internship that I originally thought was going to have me working on my passion: computer graphics. However, when I showed up for my first day in June, I was assigned to a machine learning and compu...

21 going on 22: What I wish I had done as a computer science undergrad

Jul 19, 2019

Fun, games, and internship applications When I started at Vanderbilt University I was a fresh-faced student with little to no coding experience. I had never made a full fledged project (save for one calculator iPhone app) and I didn't even have any A...