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title: "Education"
description: "23 posts about Education, summarised, each linking to the original."
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# Education
> 23 posts about Education, summarised, each linking to the original.

## Articles

### [Meet the Winners of the 5th eBay University Machine Learning Challenge](https://yomu.fyi/post/meet-the-winners-of-the-5th-ebay-university-machine-learning-challenge.md)
- Company: [Ebay](https://yomu.fyi/company/ebay.md)
- Author: eBay News Team
- Published: Feb 15, 2024
- Type: Announcement

The 2023 eBay University Machine Learning Challenge brought together 1,439 students from 206 universities in 887 teams to develop solutions for real-world ecommerce problems. The winning team, NullPointer, comprised five graduate students from universities across the United States and earned summer internships at eBay. Its project used Named Entity Recognition (NER) to identify, extract, and label named entities—including people, places, brands, and sizes—in a dataset of 10 million eBay Germany sneaker-category item titles. At eBay, NER is commonly used to automatically extract key information from listings and search queries. The event recorded its largest turnout yet, and students can register for the next competition via EvalAI in late spring.


### [Attracting Local Talent And Building Mobile Apps: A Developer Hiring Initiative](https://yomu.fyi/post/attracting-local-talent-and-building-mobile-apps-a-developer-hiring-in.md)
- Company: [Shopify](https://yomu.fyi/company/shopify.md)
- Author: Julia Hurrelmann
- Published: Feb 1, 2019
- Type: Problem & solution

Shopify’s “Build Things, Show Shopify” initiative used app development to reach local mobile developers beyond traditional recruitment channels and strengthen its talent pipeline. From May to August, workshops in Ottawa supported 75+ participants with help from more than 20 Shopify product managers, developers, designers, and computing educators, covering workflows, coding, code reviews, design, and presentation skills. At the September showcase, 13 developers presented 12 apps through rapid three-minute rotations, after which six promising projects advanced to a grand panel of Shopify leaders who provided technical questions and feedback. Participants left with fully developed apps, while a later Ottawa showcase connected them with angel investors and technical recruiters. The initiative also exposed a retention and inclusion problem: participation fell from 24 women among 77 at launch to 16 at the last event, with only two reaching the showcase, prompting consideration of daytime workshops.


### [Dev Degree](https://yomu.fyi/post/dev-degree.md)
- Company: [Shopify](https://yomu.fyi/company/shopify.md)
- Author: Jean-Michel Lemieux, CTO
- Published: Sep 24, 2018
- Type: Explainer

Dev Degree is Shopify’s work-integrated learning program, combining an accredited university degree with double the experience of a traditional co-op. It emerged from concerns that graduates often knew theory but lacked practical software-development skills, and it required a long-term partnership with a university willing to change curriculum and assessments. At Carleton, students take three courses each semester while working 25 hours weekly at Shopify; students also complete a first-year Developer Skills Training program, submit practicum reports every four months, and receive technical and Life@Shopify mentors. The program allocates at least 20% of degree credits to practicums and uses learning outcomes influenced by ACM and IEEE Computer Society standards. Shopify reports 95% retention, women representing over 50% of students, and students becoming productive after nine months; it has expanded to York University, while the company says broader adoption is needed.


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