2020 Spring UNO Hackathon

HackUNO is a 24 hour competition in which teams of 1-3 students work together to create software and hardware projects. At the end of the 24 hours, the projects are judged by various criteria, including our theme. This year, our theme is weather. We hope to bring together students from all over the Midwest to compete, build awesome projects, and network with each other and companies.

I helped sponsor the meeting

2020 Spring UNO prototype

I volunteered to be in the UNO Prototype program.

Employer Expectations

  • Meet up with the student for a one-off in-person conversation lasting roughly 30-60 minutes. The meeting could simply involve a sit-down conversation or extend beyond that to include sitting in on a meeting or getting a facility/office tour. We leave this to the student-employer connection to determine.
  • Be willing to engage in a conversation regarding one’s career journey and answer questions from an exploring student.

 

2020 Fall UNO CBA Capstone Cup Round 1

On Friday, October 16, 2020 from 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM I was a judge for the First Round of the University of Nebraska – Omaha Capstone Cup. The Capstone Cup is a strategy competition for Senior Level students that Farm Credit Services of America is a sponsor of the 2020 / 2021 school year.

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I was a judge on 3 rounds of students presenting a strategic plan to the board of the directors of a company. For being virtually the students did a great job presenting. The students were graded on a 10 point system on problem formulation, analysis, recommendation and presentation.

2021 Spring UNO Thompson Learning Center Speed Interviews

On Friday, March 26, 2021 from 8am – 4pm. I participated in the UNO Thompson Learning Center speed Interviews. This was open to Employer & Community Partners.  this event, has nearly 280 Thompson Learning Community (TLC) sophomore students will practice their interviewing skills and connect with employers.

TLC students consist of all majors. Practice interviews will be formatted in 10 minute bursts with 5 minutes of feedback. In one hour, you may get connected with up to four students.

I was assigned a breakout room. That is when the practice interview begins.  Each student did a practice interviews of about 15 minutes in duration. The first 10 minutes will be you asking the student interview questions followed by the last 5 minutes to provide constructive feedback.  The feedback is to instill confidence yet provide candid feedback for growth.

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2021 Spring UNO CBA Employer Partners Panel

On Monday, January 25 from 10am to Noon I attended the UNO’s College of Business Administration (CBA) focus group meeting. This meeting was to evaluate the needs your ideas and perspectives CBA Employer Partners.

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Through out the focus groups questions were asked. By participate in this strategic planning process. The results of these focus group meetings will guide CBA leadership as we build on our strengths and prioritize our strategic initiatives.

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2020 FALL UNO : All Majors Career & Internship Fair (Virtual October Fair)

The 2020 FALL UNO : All Majors Career & Internship Fair (Virtual October Fair) was held on Thursday, October 8th 2020, 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm CDT.

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This was the second virtual career fair the UNO Ambassadors attended.

Prework

The ambassadors reached out to the 2021 Business Technology Internship Leaders to a have a group session.

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Reached out to Professors and student groups. We asked to email members and know we are doing internships.

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Reached out to past students and anyone who rsvp on handshake. This was using past email from the 2020 Spring Career Fair.

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Posted on Social Networks

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Day of the Fair

1 on 1 Sessions

1 on 1 Sessions are scheduled in handshake by students.  1 on 1 sessions 10 minutes to have a conversation. I felt these sessions went faster than if we were chatting in person. I encouraged each to look at all company and find their passion.

Three pieces of advice to each student

  • Talking about self-awareness
  • Community involvement
  • Social media presence.

Here are links I shared.

https://www.fcsamerica.com/careers

https://careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/client_fcsam/external/jobDetails/jobDetail.html?jobPostId=2167&localeCode=en-us

www.meetup.com

I let each student know if I can help them in any way I will.

The Future Works Here 2020 (1 of 2) 30 minute session

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Started with FCSAmerica introductions

Asked students to introduce

Joni talked who is FCSAmerica is?

Shelly talked about 2021 Team

· 8 team members

· 4 on software and 4 on Data Centric

· Desire to learn

· Collaboration

· Relationships

Questions:

What Technology will be used?

  • Microsoft
  • Front End
  • Typescript, java script, css, html
  • Database
  • SQl Server
  • Data Team
  • Cloud Base in Azure
  • Boomi

What we are looking for?

The Future Works Here 2020 (2 of 2) 30-minute session

We didn’t have anyone show up but the Director of CBA Laura s. did show up. She talked about how overwhelmed students are right now. Talked about how all employers are seeing different trends of engagement. Some are targeting students in handshake to giving employment opportunities in the newsletter.

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2020 FALL UNO Scholars Academy Mentor

The Scholars Academy is a competitive cohort-based program that provides leadership training, select classes, international travel, and scholarships to promising and high-achieving business students at UNO. Students are selected their senior year of high school and spend four years in the program. As part of the Academy, a Scholars is matched with a business professional who mentors them for an academic year. The commitment from the mentor is to meet with the Scholars three times each semester, so six times a year (September through April).

On Friday  September 11th , 2020 from 12pm – 1pm (CDT) I was invited to the 2020 UNO Scholar Academy Mentor meeting. This is my second year being a mentor to a College of Business Administration Scholar student.

This was a virtual session with all mentors.

The session started with putting mentors in break out rooms.

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Break Out Rooms

  1. Who I am: Anthony Carlson
  2. What I do: Lead Application Developer
  3. Why I want to be a Mentor: Help People, 2nd year of doing this.

Overview of Scholars Academy

This is the 5th year of the program and it keeps adding more.

Meeting with the Mentee

Your mentee(s) will be reaching out via email by September 18 to introduce themselves and set up the first meeting; they will CC me on the initial email but I do not need to be included after that.

Schedule Tips for Covid-19

  • Best time to meet
  • Plan meeting

The session end with a round table of past mentors talking about their experiences.