Communications Blog N.1

This past Thursday, I went to a networking and speaking event called “Tech Connect”. The event was hosted at Nova Scotia Community College. This was my first networking event I’ve been to, so of course, I was hella nervous. Some of my nerves were calmed when I got there and was along with my other nervous classmates.

Going into the main room I was told that the animators from one of my favorite shows (Final Space) were there, so of course, I had to meet them. I talked to the nice person from Jam Filled named Sarah, we talked about how they created the show, the animation style they use and how long they produce each season. After I floated around a bit to see other companies where there, then I ran into an on called Resulta. The people at Resulta were high energy and excited to meet every student there, I came by to talk to them and see what they were all about. They’re a multidisciplinary team of marketing & technology solve all types of problems(with the field of tech), they told me about the campus in Bedford and talked about there amazing benefits and food. 

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Next, i started to head off to go to my first session, “Life Cycle of a Software Developer”. A guy named David came from Lockheed Martin to talk about what it like working there and it involves lots of coffee. Tears of joys He goes on to talk about how Lockheed writes about nine million lines of code for each military ship they get a contract on, which I found pretty impressive. He didn’t go much in detail about what specifically what they were working on because they work with the Canadian government, but what I can guess they mostly program missile and combat simulation. Then he went on more about talking about his experience working at Lockheed and what his workday looks like, then, unfortunately, we ran out of time and the talk was over.

Then I went to my second session, “A Day in the Life of a Game Developer”. The fun thing about this one was that all they did was talk about fun stories of coworkers and ways to coup with imposer syndrome. It was fun and time went by fast, so enough it was over. After I talked to a programmer from Ubisoft and I ask some questions I had for myself. I got his email and went off. Finally, I went to my last session “Transitioning from NSCC to Industry”, where we got listen to alumni students talk about where they are in the work field and what they did to get there. They all had great advice i started to do more after listening to them. I even had the chance to work with one of them at a game jam the same weekend.

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To wrap this up, my experience at this event was fun and a good learning opportunity. Getting advice from the alum was the highlight for me at this the event, hearing them express the importance of building your portfolio now, at networking more helped them get where they are now. I can’t wait to go again next year and have a portfolio to present to the companies there.