LACC Tech Bootcamps

2024 Summer session

acquire skills of the future:

After the conclusion of the Summer 2022 Tech Bootcamp, LACC's Economic Development and Workforce Education (EDWE) department hired two of the students from the bootcamp winning team to build EDWE digital versions of their offices in the Metaverse. Below are links to their final product:

Participating in the bootcamp will provide you with an opportunity to acquire 21st Century skills and connect with industry leaders for employment and internship opportunities as seen above.

Emerging Tech Bootcamp - Accessible.pdf

TIMELINE:

Tuesday, July 2 (6PM - 8PM PST): Virtual orientation day for students to meet their team coaches
Tuesday, July 9 - August 13 (6PM - 8PM PST): Virtual weekly meetings (see below for format)
Tuesday, August 20 (5:30PM-7PM): In-person Demo Day on Campus

WEEKLY SCHEDULE:

Summer 2024 LACC Emerging Tech Bootcamp Schedule

TEAMS:

2024 Emerging Technology Bootcamp Teams

Problem statements:

Team 1 (Atlas):

Coach: Michael Milano, Data Visualization Developer, Artificial Intelligence and Analytics Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Problem:

As spaceflight becomes more ubiquitous, spacecrafts and satellites will get smaller(ie cubesats) and will be deployed in greater numbers. Planning, scheduling, and managing current and future cubesat missions will become more and more challenging due to finite resources. The process of planning a mission starts with subject matter experts searching for papers and reports supporting the mission goals, which then hopefully leads them to other papers and reports. This is a lengthy process of collecting a large amount of documents and datasets, documenting them, and proving that the plan has been accomplished in similar ways on different missions and will be successful.

Goal:

Utilize the latest advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) to develop a prototype application that acts as a digital assistant to subject matter experts. This tool should reduce duplicate work by telling subject matter experts if any of these specific objectives have been achieved before and summarize how they were achieved. The application should also allow for documenting these datasets, and a means of showcasing the mission formulation.

Team 2 (The JPliens):

Coach: Ryan Stonebraker, Data Scientist II, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics and Innovative Development Organization, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Problem:

Vast amounts of data are collected during scientific missions beyond Earth. Typically, analysis of this data is conducted on an isolated, per-target basis, with reference data manually integrated as needed for comparisons. These comparisons occur when scientists recognize familiar elements from previous analyses or their own experiences. Streamlining this process by searching for previously identified relationships in new targets could be transformative, especially for newer scientists without a plethora of background experience, but such searches often involve complex combinations of data from multiple past studies in unprecedented ways.

Goal:

Utilize the latest advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) to develop a prototype application that bridges the gap between question and meta-analysis of previous studies. This tool should support scientists in two critical phases: the discovery period, when analyzing new targets, and the background research phase, when composing scholarly articles, thereby facilitating the comparison of new findings with historical data.

Technologies to Consider

- LLM API and Prompt Engineering

- OpenAI ChatGPT

- Agile Project Management and Issue Tracking

- Github Projects

- Jira

- Trello

- Code Management and Website/Web App Hosting

- Github

- Github Pages

- Basic Web Development

- React

- Javascript/Typescript

- CSS

- App and User Experience Design

- Figma

WEEKLY presentation materials:

2024 LACC Summer Emerging Tech Bootcamp Student Presentation - 20240702.pdf

Session Recording

week 0: STudent orientation

Tuesday, July 2, 2024

Presenter:

Presenters:

Tomas Vindahl

Principal Consultant

Slalom

Cassidy Nash

Intern @AWS

UCLA

LACC Summer 2024 Emerging Tech Bootcamp Presentation - How to Pitch.pdf

Session Recording

week 6: How to pitch

Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Presenters:

Tyler Mowbrey

Senior Director

Slalom

Johnny Nassar

Head of Leanring & Empowerment

VCG Markets

Team1-Atlas-Pitch-PDF.pdf

Team 1 (ATLAS) *

Team2-The-JPliens-Pitch-Deck.pdf

Team 2 (JPliens)

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