Hacknight #222

Updates from the Accelerator Project team

with Dilini Kurukulaarachchi

Recording

At Civic Tech Toronto, December is a time to reflect on our work over the past year and celebrate our projects' achievements. Join us this week to hear from the Accelerator Project Team! The Accelerator Project is a grassroots initiative that aims to help homeless and at-risk youth escape the cycle of poverty by helping them to use tech skills to advance their employment, entrepreneurship, and personal goals. https://acceleratorproject.xyz/

Speakers

Dilini Kurukulaarachchi

Dilini is a public servant who has been a passionate volunteer within the civic tech community, serving as a co-organizer and participating in a number of civic tech initiatives over the past two years. Since 2018, she has founded and led a civic tech project that is supporting young people in transitional housing through tech skills mentoring.

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At Civic Tech Toronto, December is a time to reflect on our work over the past year and celebrate our projects’ achievements. Join us this week to hear from the Accelerator Project Team!

The Accelerator Project is a grassroots initiative that aims to help homeless and at-risk youth escape the cycle of poverty by helping them to use tech skills to advance their employment, entrepreneurship, and personal goals.

https://acceleratorproject.xyz/

Come help us chip away at civic problems by combining technology with the power of our community. We’ve got everything you need for a perfect Tuesday night: a presentation to learn from, some projects to work on, and 🍕pizza to snack on! 💧Help us be more sustainable by bringing a reusable water bottle.

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Our venue sponsor is Microsoft Reactor Toronto

If you run into any issues, send a message to our “doorbell” at 647-812-2649, and the organizers will get a notification.

We can offer 2 transit tokens per participant per week to those in need of transportation support to get to hacknights. Please ask an organizer to take advantage of this. (We have a set budget for tokens, and if we’re running low, we will make every attempt to update the event description to say so.)

Our weekly civic tech hacknights bring together designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policy-makers, students, communications strategists, and all other Torontonians who share an interest in making Toronto more responsive, prosperous, sustainable and equitable, through design, tech, and data. (Coders are welcome, but you don’t have to be a coder to contribute!) Come and be part of it!

6:30-7: Welcome and intros 7-7:30: Presentation and Q&A/discussion 7:30-9: Breakout groups (go make something!)

For more info, visit http://civictech.ca Here’s our Code of Conduct: http://civictech.ca/about-us

Hope to see you Tuesday!

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