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Next Century Corporation is looking for prospective software engineers to join their team as interns and full time employees. The local technology company was named one of Baltimore Magazine’s “Best Places to Work” in 2011.

“Next Century is driven by something far deeper than software, hardware, and dollars and cents,” says the company’s website. “We believe the solutions we provide have the power to save lives, promote freedom, and improve our world in exponential ways.”

Next Wednesday, April 11, 2012, Next Century staff will arrive at the UMBC campus for Next Century Corporation Corporate Visibility Day. The day will give students an opportunity to network with staff members. At Noon, catch president John McBeth discuss the company’s inception, followed by a lecture by UMBC alumna and Next Century Senior Software Engineering Christine Stepnitz entitled: “High Availability Systems: Planning for Failure. When your system has to be up 100% of the time, what happens when it goes down? And how can you turn that into an OK thing?”

Next Century Corporation Corporate Visibility Day will be held Wednesday, April 11 in the University Center Ballroom Lounge from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Don’t get us wrong: there’s nothing bad about being slow. We like to relax as we sip our coffee in the morning. We like to take our time ambling down UMBC’s treelined thoroughfare on a cool spring morning. And we like to savor a long, juicy novel word by luscious word. Really, we do.

Sometimes, though, you have to be fast. And when that time comes – whether you want to beat a fellow shopper to the last deal on the sales rack, or outstep your buddies on a lunch break dare – you need to be prepared.

Where matters of speed at UMBC are concerned, we made a beeline straight to the source: David Bobb ’02, health administration & policy, UMBC’s Track & Field Coach and one of the university’s most highly decorated athletes of all time.

If it’s pep that your step is after, Bobb’s three-week plan will put you on the fast track.

Read the full story and watch a special “How To Be Fast” video in the Winter 2012 issue of UMBC Magazine.

You are invited to attend an Open House at the UM School of Pharmacy!  This is an opportunity to learn more about the PharmD curriculum, review the admissions process, and talk with current students, alumni, and faculty about the School of Pharmacy.

This Open House is a program format and will begin at 10am.  Attendees also have the opportunity to take a campus tour.

Upcoming Open Houses

Date: Saturday, April 14, 2012

Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
        Registration begins at 9:30am with light breakfast

Location: Pharmacy Hall
               20 N Pine St.
               Baltimore, MD

GiveCorps.com is seeking a couple of interns this summer.

Address:
    	2601 N. Howard St
    	Baltimore, Maryland 21218
    
    URL: https://givecorps.com/
    
    Each day, GiveCorps publishes a nonprofit project that needs support. GiveCorps Corps members, donate, volunteer, and spread the word about the projects.
    In eight months, GiveCorps has raised more than $100,000 for local nonprofits from nearly 2000 donors.
    Be part of the team.
    
Fields:
    Advertising/marketing/media, Business management, Communications/ public relations, Computer/information systems, Entrepreneurial, Graphic arts/commercial arts/photography, Internet-related, Media production/programming (TV, radio, film), Writing/editing/research
    
    GiveCorps is looking for interns in marketing, computer programming (ruby on rails), social media, and nonprofit management. We offer a stipend for summer interns and college credit for school year interns. 
    
    We are a dynamic team, with an open space, flexible work environment.
    
    You will do REAL work that moves the needle in our company everyday. Want to have a great experience, and make difference in Baltimore? Check us out! https://givecorps.com/
    
Desired Skills:
    We seek organized, committed, individuals with exceptional organizational skills.
    
    We work in a true start-up environment where every member of the team can fully use his/her skills to benefit the company. 
    
    We need marketers, computer programmers, social media mavens, writers, and business folks. If you crossover between these areas, great!
    
    Workdays: flexible
    
IF INTERESTED, APPLY ON UMBCworks or send your resume and cover letter to Christine Routzahn, Director of Internships at The Shriver Center at routzahn@umbc.edu

UMBC and Marie desJardins appeared in the New York Times. The article, “Computer Science for the Rest of Us,” describes the idea that all students should learn how to ‘think computationally’ and discusses the growing number of new efforts to teach non-majors how to do that, with or without learning how to program in conventional programming languages like Python or Java.

Marie desJardins, a computer science professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, says her department uses Scratch in its “Introduction to Computers and Programming” course, in which students can try a few basic concepts. About 25 percent of the semester is spent on programming.

Explaining why Scratch is used at the college level, she says that all students arrive on campus having taken high school classes in English, math, biology and so on, but that many have not taken a computer science class.”