Passion/Career Exploration

2020/21

We have expanded our Q&As with university students' tips and experiences on post-secondary, work experience and internships, scholarships and more. Watch these virtual conversations hosted by Wei on YouTube!

We have gone ahead with our first few career Q&As. Watch these virtual conversations hosted by Wei on YouTube!

If you have any questions at all, please send them to our email, challengestudioleadershipclub@gmail.com, and we'll redirect them to the guest as appropriate.

Note: All our activities this year will be completely remote and carried out online due to COVID-19.

Survey

We have sent out a start-of-year survey to all Chudio students. This is one chance for us to get your input on activities you'd like to see, or anything else.

If you are interested in what we are doing, please consider sending us an email at challengestudioleadershipclub@gmail.com, with subject line "Welcome Survey Request", and your grade at Eric Hamber.

Below are some of the activities we are thinking of for this year.

Live Interview/Q&A Events

Live workshops and Q&A's with professionals in various fields, from music to biotechnology, cleantech and software engineering to government and more.

2019/20

Last year, we had several groups focusing on different fields of interest/passions.

These groups are free for anyone to join, and aim to help students get a hands-on experience for different fields and areas, and help students connect with professionals in these fields.

Groups are currently mostly led by senior Chudio students. The groups are:

  1. Computer/Data Science

  2. Baking

  3. Music

  4. CAD Design & Prototyping

  5. Philosophy

  6. Drama/Creative Writing

Workshops

Making a Career Out of Music

Music - Daniel

CANCELLED due to COVID-19

Rapid Prototyping

CAD Design & Prototyping - Luke

CANCELLED due to COVID-19

Baking - Gaby, Emma

In this fun workshop hosted by the baking group, we learned about the science behind making bread.

We also be prepared sourdough starters, which were taken home for baking bread(hopefully).

For those of you who came, we hope you had a great time! Please contact us if you have any feedback and/or ideas for future workshops/activities!

Intro to Machine Learning - Linear Regression

Computer/Data Science - Wei, Brian

In this workshop, you will gain an understanding of some concepts and methods that form the basis of machine learning.

We'll learn about...

  1. data fitting

  2. regression methods

  3. loss evaluation

  4. linear regression concepts

  5. data fit optimization w/ gradient descent