Benton Engineering Council at UF - BEC

Congratulations to our 2021-2022 Executive Board!

President: Kyle Fohrman
VP of Communications: Fariha Raza
VP of Programming: Faith Freeman
Secretary: George Fairchild
Treasurer: Zachary Congdon

***Today***

BEC Professional Development Day

Free Headshots and Resume Review

Headshots: Weil Hall 3-5pm text 813-440-9659 when you are coming!

Resume Review: On Zoom
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BEC GBM 4: Elections and Carrier Info Session
Reminder Next Tuesday, April 6th, the Benton Engineering Council is hosting our Carrier Info session and BEC elections!

6:30 - Carrier Info Session
7:00 - Elections

Zoom Link:

https://ufl.zoom.us/j/99492616289?pwd=OFdFbmtva2l2RVVucWRsMDNNejBNZz09

Meeting ID: 994 9261 6289
Passcode: 639583

Election Info:

Want to get involved in engineering leadership? The Benton Engineering Council has Executive Board positions opening up and we are open to all levels of leadership experience! The positions available are president, vice president of communications, vice president of programs, treasurer, and secretary. If you have any questions about these positions please reach out to [email protected].

To see who is currently running please visit https://www.ufbec.org/bec-elections-2021-2022/

How to run for a position?
1. Have someone nominate you or self-nominate by emailing [email protected] your name, email, and position you wish to run for.
2. You will get an email back asking you to confirm or reject the nomination.
3. Show up on April 6th at 7 for a quick 1 min pitch on why you would be great for the position!
4. The BEC reps will vote and we will announce who has won!

**Must email nominations by 6:15 pm on April 6th**

Carrier Info Session:

Learn about careers and opportunities from Carrier! Ask questions about industry and network with this awesome engineering company!

BEC Elections 2021-2022 To run for a BEC position please email [email protected] to self-nominate or have someone nominate on your behalf. Must respond to nomination email to approve or reject your nomination before elections on April 6th at 6:30 pm. In the nomination email include the name of the nominee, position(s) runn...

Check out some awesome photos from E-Fair yesterday! Thank you to Lawton Chiles and all the schools who participated!

Shoutout to the E-Fair directors Faith Freeman and Brooke Ohlsson, E Week Executive directors Ashley Valenza and Kyle Fohrman, and BEC VP of Programs Orlando Hurtado for making this possible!

See what other fun activities we have planned for the reminder of E Week on the E Week page UF Engineers' Week !

Hey guys it’s Engineers Week! Engineers Week was created to celebrate engineers and thier contributions to society! Check out a preview of all the fun events we have upcoming this week and look out for more details.

For more information you can also check out the E-Week Page at ufbec.org and the E Week 2021 Instagram!

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Check Out this UF Vanderbilt Info Session!

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Looking to get involved in Engineering Leadership? Apply to be an assistant director for E Week!

Engineers’ Week (E Week) is a national celebration of engineers! It is hosted in the spring and an awesome way to start getting involved in leadership!

Please apply below by Wednesday at 11:59!

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TypingDNA Hackathon
- Goal: Innovate and create anything you can think of as long as it
as long as your project includes TypingDNA API calls. Show us what you’d build given that you CAN recognize people based on their typing.
- Prizes: $110,000 in prizes
- Deadline: October 31
- Details + Registration: http://bit.ly/TypingDNA20s

2020 Developer Circles Community Challenge
- Goal: Become the teacher and put your own innovative spin on developer education by creating written tutorials that showcase the capabilities of Facebook technologies.
- Prizes: Up to $133,000 in total prizes
- Deadline: October 26, 2020
- Details + Registration: http://bit.ly/DevC2020s

monday.com Build it Better Challenge
- Goal: Build a new monday App that allows teams to improve collaboration, communication, teamwork, or simply make daily work a little more joyful in one of the required categories (CRM, Software Development, Construction and field workers)
- Prizes: $184,000 prize pool, including Teslas, promotion, consultation and more
- Submission Period: Sep 23 – Nov 30
- Details + Registration: http://bit.ly/mondayApp20s

Here are some fun hackathons coming up if anyone is interested!

(Reminder) Snap Kit Developer Challenge
- Goal: We’re calling on you to build something great, using at least one of our many Snap Kit developer tools. That’s why this challenge is searching for the best uses of Snap Kit in the following categories: Best Use of Dynamic Lenses, Best Use of Bitmoji, Best Design, Innovation Award, Best Overall Use of Snap Kit.
- Prizes: $10,000 USD prize pool, including cash and promotion
- Deadline: October 5
- Details + Registration: https://bit.ly/SnapKit2020s

(Reminder) Palo Alto Networks Automation Rising SOAR Hackathon
- Goal: Build a security playbook for the Cortex XSOAR Marketplace that enables automated orchestration of end-to-end security workflows, from triaging alerts to incident investigation, ticket management, and threat response.
- Prizes: $60,000 prize pool, including speaking opportunity at Palo Alto Networks Ignite 2020, cash, promotion, and sponsor prizes from Google, AWS & more
- Deadline: September 29
- Details + Registration: https://bit.ly/AutoRising20

Automation Rising 2020 SOAR Hackathon Join the ultimate playbook building challenge!

BEC's 1st Fall GBM is tonight! Hope to see you all there!