TOMORROW IS THE SCRIPTED HACKATHON!

I'm so excited!

We have an awesome hackathon planned for tomorrow at Google.  Over the day, our students will build projects related to a surprise theme and then will compete for prizes at the end of the day.  We'll announce the surprise theme first thing tomorrow morning. Our hackathon is always a highlight of our year, and is one of the big ways that we celebrate all that our students and volunteers have accomplished during the school year.

We are really lucky to have a terrific panel of judges. They include:

• Amy Yan, VP of Product at Rent the Runway

• Jackie Trebilcock, Managing Director at NY Fashion Tech Lab

• Janet Schalk, CIO at Hudson’s Bay Company

• Kendra Farrell, ScriptEd alumni

• Kenton Jacobsen, Director of Engineering at Vogue.com

• MD Hossain, ScriptEd alumni

• Minverva Tantoco, CTO of NYC

• Peter Coles, VP of Software at Ringly

I'm running the Brooklyn Half tomorrow morning as well before heading over to the hackathon. Good luck runners!

Inspiring Road Signs!

Today I drove to Philadelphia to meet with a foundation that is interested in supporting ScriptEd.  It was great to sit in a car and drive without distractions or traffic. It helped me clear my head.

On the way back there was a toll booth that was closed. There were signs all over the road, probably 30-40, that said "keep moving" to encourage people to not slow down for the booth -- to keep driving through.  I've had a pretty rough couple of weeks between my workload and my life, and the stress of everything got me sick over the weekend, so it was good to see these signs. I've never looked to road signs for motivation before, but you've gotta find your inspiration somewhere, right?   Keep moving!