"The point of it is not always to make a business, of course. It's to have that experience."
Karin and Kelly chat with Melissa Schmitz about what it's like to win a hackathon, her experience working with virtual reality, and her decision to pivot from natural science to data science.
Topics discussed include: using virtual reality to train people on heavy equipment, how to succeed at your first hackathon, and building blocks of programming
Follow Melissa on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/schmitzmelissa/) and Medium (https://medium.com/@schmitzmelissa) for more!
Click here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc_nhP19q8A) to watch a video about Raymond's Virtual Reality simulator.
Melissa's team, MMA, won Hack Upstate X! Read about their project here (https://medium.com/@hackupstate/hack-upstate-x-the-results-are-in-b1a58514a866).
Our theme is "Enthusiast" by Tours. Listen to the full song here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQWZSK_Pkxs)!
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--- Special Guest: Melissa Schmitz.
