Events from April 14, 2022 – May 10, 2022 › Webinar › – Page 3 – Digital Nova Scotia – Leading Digital Industry

Queering Tech Sales

Online

Do you want to get into the tech industry? Considering a career change? Tech sales is an incredible opportunity for you to consider - great pay, benefits, and lots of personal growth. If you want to figure out how to get in, join us for this webinar! Volley and QueerTech have partnered to bring you ‘Queering Tech Sales’ where you’ll hear from fellow queers working in tech sales on how they got in, why they love it, and what steps you can take.

Modern Fortran for scientific programming

Online

This workshop will be a hands-on introduction to the FORTRAN programming language. Prerequisites: Familiarity with another programming language Fortran, one of the initial high-level programming languages, continues to be an excellent option for high-performance computing due to its superb performance. The newer versions offer many modern features, including object-oriented programming capabilities to programmers. This course will cover some of these features. The session will take place on: Wednesday, May 4th - 12:00pm - 4:00pm (Atlantic time) You need to have a laptop with a Mac, Linux or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc) on which you have administrative privileges, as you will need to pre-load specific software packages. Participants must register using their institutional / organizational email address (not a personal email, ie. gmail) Instructions for how to join will be sent out one day prior to the start of the event.

Women in Tech Day 2022

Online

Women in Tech Day is an interactive exploration which encourages young women to explore computer science and technology! Women in Tech Day is an inspiring, stereotype-busting, interactive exploration which encourages young women to consider the many career pathways and ever-increasing employment openings which exist through the study of computer science and technology. This event will help young women realize the possibilities offered through a career in technology by hearing important messages of the future from other students, faculty, and industry. The skill sets needed by industry through the study of computer science and IT can be linked to every aspect of study from communication, art and design, business, medicine, health, engineering, law, and more. In addition to hearing from our industry and student mentors, your students will be working through a series of activities using python to solve problems in data types, variables, input/output, if statements, and loops. With the help of our instructor and female mentors, they will be put into groups to solve logic and coding problems to build their confidence in computing! Coding experience isn’t necessary to attend the event.

Recurring

Online Computer Training: Microsoft Excel I (May 10-26)

Online

Level: Beginner Number of Sessions: 6 Session Length: 2 hours In this course, you will use Microsoft Office Excel 2016 to learn how to: Create, open, save, print, edit, and close worksheets and workbooks Insert, copy, move, delete, and rename worksheets Add headers and footers and prepare print layout Select, insert, define width/height, and delete columns and rows Hide and unhide rows, columns, and worksheets Create simple formulas and use defined functions (sum, average, min, max, and count) Use relative, absolute, and mixed references Format cells, and enter and format data Sort and filter data Find and replace data Auto and flash-fill data Remove duplicates Apply “Text to Column” Apply “Freeze Panes”