South Sound Technology Conference

There were a lot of many different kind of panels at the SST Conference, however, the most exciting has to have been about the Pacific Rim Cyber Collegiate Defense Competition. This was a very interesting opportunity as it offered a new form of college sports. It was talked about during the panel, of how awesome it would be to take it to the national level, and having division teams at universities across the country just like how football and basketball are college sports. It is a bit bittersweet seeing these kind of changes at the end of my college career, but it still remains exciting to someday soon people will be able to go to universities on sports scholarships for Cyber Collegiate Defense Competition. From the entire event it was very much a blessing being able to speak with the panelist afterwards and learning more about them. I was able to speak with Clarissa San Diego who is the founder and CEO of Makerologist. It surprised me that Clarissa did not finish college, and is a college dropout. She very much held the same entrepreneur spirit that we have been talking about in class all quarter. I very much enjoyed what Makerologist represented which was bridging the technical and non technical community, which is very relevant in what I want to do in a career. I had shared contact information with Clarissa and hopefully this can lead to a potential internship opportunity that she had briefly mentioned in our short conversation. At the end of the conference was the panel for entrepreneurship and the UWT organization VIBE had caught my attention as they had mentioned a meeting that would be taking place for a competition that would be taking place. This quarter with Professor Fry, as been one great experience after another, and this opportunity seems like another good chance to broaden my understanding of what it means to being an entrepreneur. I had also had the opportunity to speak with Thomas, and it seems like they have a clay shooting competition within VIBE that seems very exciting, and even if I am not able to take part I would very much enjoy to spectate on the competition if spectating is allowed.