Melissa Schmitz: A Giant Debugging Rubber Duck

"I think that part of the reason that I got my job, or at least that they looked at my resume, was because I had a hackathon project that was an augmented reality game..."
Kelly and Karin sit down again with Melissa Schmitz as she shares more stories and advice about hackathons, her experience in a data science bootcamp, and how she leveraged her hackathon wins into a full-time career in tech.
Connect with Melissa: LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/schmitzmelissa/) | Medium (https://medium.com/@schmitzmelissa)
Click here (https://devpost.com/software/the-mighty-ducks) to learn more about The Mighty Ducks, an augmented reality game Melissa worked on, at Hack Upstate XII!
Music
This episode features "Brain Power" (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Mela/Mela_two) by Mela from the album Mela two.

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"I think that part of the reason that I got my job, or at least that they looked at my resume, was because I had a hackathon project that was an augmented reality game..."

Kelly and Karin sit down again with Melissa Schmitz as she shares more stories and advice about hackathons, her experience in a data science bootcamp, and how she leveraged her hackathon wins into a full-time career in tech.

Connect with Melissa: LinkedIn | Medium

Click here to learn more about The Mighty Ducks, an augmented reality game Melissa worked on, at Hack Upstate XII!

Music

This episode features "Brain Power" by Mela from the album Mela two.


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Follow Karin

Personal Site: kethorne.com

Instagram: karin_thorne

Twitter: kaythorne

E-mail: [email protected]

Business: [JS Webb Development LLC](jswebbdevelopment.com)

Instagram: jswebbdev

Twitter: @JSWebb_Dev

Business E-mail: [email protected]

Follow Kelly

Personal Site: kell.dev

Instagram: kellytoearth

Twitter: @kellytoearth

E-mail: [email protected]

Follow Salt City Code

Site: https://www.saltcitycode.com/

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E-mail: [email protected]

Special Guest: Melissa Schmitz.

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