Weekend Update
Check out upcoming opportunities to upskill and enjoy the sunshine.
Next Week…
March 3 | 5:30pm-6:30pm: Customer Discovery (virtual) led by Randall Noval, Starfysh Founder. This hands-on workshop gives you a repeatable process for customer discovery in 60 minutes. You'll work through three cycles of teaching and practice to walk away with: testable hypotheses about a real problem, a ready-to-use interview script, and a plan to reach your first conversation.
Register via: https://luma.com/sbaeec9q
March 5 | 12:00pm-1:30pm: (in person) at MLK Memorial Library. Vibe Coding led by Lilah Schaeffer, AI Conultant. Take your Claude Code projects from prototype to production-ready. In this hands-on workshop, we'll walk through integrating the tools modern apps actually need.
Register via: https://luma.com/ewpm5xt3March 5 | 1:00pm–5:00pm: Cowork. Co-learn. Co-survive the job market. MLK Memorial Library (DC Public Library). Work alongside Pods, Projects and The Upskilling Labs’ volunteers.
Last Week…
We had a busy week of workshops, partner events, and planning for future build cycles. Many thanks to organizers, and host organizations for supporting this community! And of course, Upskillers continued to explore potential projects under the current build cycle.
(Photo credit: Diana Finegold)
Packed house! Eric Brown Jr (with organizing support from mentor Afnan Adam) led a Prompt Engineering and Agentic Workflows workshop at Microsoft’s Innovation lab.
(Photo credit: Alex Mills)
The Institute for Development Impact (I4DI) graciously hosted our roundtable discussion, marking the start of planning for upcoming thematic build cycles. Betty Watson (Venki Energy) led the Energy & Climate discussion, and Helen Glover (Civic Tech DC) led the Civics and Elections discussion. Thanks to all the industry experts who joined the discussions.
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