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HackerTour’12 Rolls To A Stop and an iPhone 5 Giveaway

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Sara Mooradian

The HackerTour’12 is officially over and we thought what better way to celebrate the end of this awesome tour than by giving YOU, our new Readyforce friends, a chance to win an amazing iPhone 5 .

We thought that made perfect sense.

So help us celebrate by entering the giveaway below and tell your friends about it. The more you do, the more chances you get to win a 32 GB iPhone 5 (black or white, winner chooses) or win one of ten Hacker Tour swag bags. Read on to find out how…

Win an iPhone 5 or a Hacker Tour ’12 Swag Bag which includes an awesome tour t-shirt.

How Do I Enter?

To enter, all you have to do is copy and paste the url from your Readyforce student profile.  When you do that, it will unlock a bunch of easy BONUS entries you can earn.

The giveaway ends December 19th at midnight PST and winners will be announced on the blog the following day.

Good luck and thank you to all our new friends and great sponsors from the Hacker Tour’12!

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Last Stop Hacker Tour Coding Challenge Almost Over! New Prizes Added!

Posted on November 30, 2012 by Sara Mooradian

Time is Running Out!

We’re in the final stretches of our Last Stop Hacker Tour coding challenge with HackerRank and have had an amazing turnout and participation. With approximately 36 hours left, we’ve added even more new prizes to the already awesome takeaways. There’s still time to enter for a chance to win and the top 50 scorers are all taking home something awesome.

Coding challenge ends Sunday 12/2 at midnight.

New Prize from Firebase

 

Firebase, the scalable real-time backend for your web app, is awarding 12 months of their $249/mo package to the top 25 scores. This is on top of  uber awarding the top 50 scores with $20 credits!

Fourth through sixth place scorers will also take home Romo, the smartphone robot from Romotive. Have you seen this thing? It’s sweet!!!

Romo the smartphone from Romotive

 

The top tier prizes are cold hard cash. First place scorer on the leaderboard will take home the grand prize of $1,500, 2nd place gets $500 and 3rd gets $200. So if you code, you really should enter because your odds of winning something awesome from some fantastic startups is pretty good.

But hurry! The contest ends Sunday 12/2 at midnight.

Click here to enter: www.hackerrank.com/hackertour

 

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Hacker Tour 2012 Weeks 1 and 2 RoundUp

Posted on September 25, 2012 by Sara Mooradian

We’ve covered 7 states in our Hacker Tour van and met thousands of eager students.  Best part? We’re having a blast!

So far we’ve hit the campuses of Cornell, University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne, Penn State, Rutgers, Virgnia Tech, UVA, and Ohio State. Yes, we’ve covered a lot of ground.

Some highlights of the tour so far (for LOTS more pictures follow us on FB and check out our albums there).

1. Our Quixey coding challenge kick off event at Cornell co-hosted with PopShop set the right tone for our epic road trip.

2. Walking out to our van at the end of our first night we thought for sure we’d gotten a steep parking ticket. As we got closer, we realized it was a student’s resume. Gotta love that.

3. We knew going in that we were ‘different’ and that we might disrupt the traditional feel of some of these career fairs.  First of all, we don’t dress like everyone else. Here’s a pic of our “uniform”:

And here’s what our ‘booths’ look like:

4. At University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne, we felt a little artsy. Our CEO Alex, took these snaps:

5. Here are Jordan and Chris at Penn State:

6. At Rutgers we teamed up with the folks at Juice Tank to host an awesome panel of speakers from SoundCloud and Quirky:

To see ALL the pics from that awesome event click over to our Facebook.

After some much needed R&R in New York city over the weekend we made our way to great state of Virginia.

The Virginia Tech students were some of the most excited we met up with – so excited in fact we didn’t get the chance to snap a single photo with them. We were too busy talking the whole time.

At UVA we met some challenges with the weather as we were in a torrential downpour and then a tornado warning. That didn’t deter us though from meeting with the awesome SEAS students of UVA. They have a long tradition of engineering at UVA as we documented in these pics:

So long in fact, that they still have these things lying around. Antique relics for $100 please Alex.

See the rainy window? It POURED.

We ended the week at Ohio State University. Following the OSU career fair, we co-hosted an idea competition with CoStart Now which was humbling and inspiring to say the least.

All in all we’ve met some amazing candidates for our 26 Hacker Tour sponsors. The good news? They’re already connecting. We’re really proud of the rate of intros and acceptances that are happening via our site.

We’ve even seen some of our sponsors reaching out and helping students with dissertations on big data. Pretty cool stuff.

Stay tuned as there’s lots more to come on reporting where we’ve been and what we’re up to.

For now, peace out.

The Hacker Tour 2012 Team
#HackerTour12

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Road Trip! Readyforce Hacker Tour 2012

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Sara Mooradian

Road trip anyone?

Here at Readyforce we’re really excited to announce Hacker Tour 2012. Starting this fall, over 8-weeks, our team will embark on a whirlwind tour bringing the top startups and technology companies to 25 college and university campuses.  Our goal: to connect the best and the brightest with the best places to intern and find work after graduation.
Startups and technology companies are inarguably some of the most exciting places to work today.  Companies like Square, Codeacademy and Quixey, to name a few, are hives of innovation that value fast pace, critical thinking and an entrepreneurial spirit.  Everyday, these companies are deep in the trenches, pumping out new product, code and innovative ideas.  They are also always looking to beef up their expanding teams with the top talent.

But how to do both? And do it well?

When we spoke with some of the sharpest minds in our network, they all agreed: ‘We’d love to recruit the top graduating talent, but we just can’t be at every school.’

Yes… but we can.

Hence, the Readyforce Hacker Tour 2012 was planned.  We love to connect talent with great companies. Heck it’s what we do best. So starting September 12th, we will be LIVE on campus (first stop: Cornell) and work our way around the nation’s top 25 computer science and engineering schools.

Our Readyforce crew will introduce students to exciting companies that are looking for interns and graduating students to join their teams.  By completing a Readyforce profile, students will have the opportunity to be exposed to some of the top-hiring managers, participate in CEO and CTO webcasts, enter our coding competitions and be invited to exclusive on-campus meetups and events.

Did we mention the schwag?

Students that complete a Readyforce profile before we arrive on campus will also be automatically entered to win some great #HackerTour12 stuff.

For a list of tour dates click here.

Students: Be sure to like us on Facebook to get promotion updates and breaking news about the tour.  Follow us on Twitter at @Readyforce and hashtag #HackerTour12
Companies: Want to get in on this tour and be represented while we meet face to face with 20,000 of the next graduating superstars? Click here to ‘Get on the Bus’ and join Hacker Tour 2012.

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