Students for Life 🎉 Learning never ends! 🍎
In our fourth issue, we tell you about our free classes & workshops, drop Data Science Fellowship Cohort 5 dates, reminisce about the story of Eskwelabs, and share resources for a post-COVID future
We created this newsletter to keep our alums, partners, and anyone interested in learning skills for the future of work updated and connected to our ever-growing family. If you want to read our previous issues, you can check them out here.
Hi, Francine here! I'm a self-proclaimed student for life, and I just find so much joy in learning—and as I write more of these newsletters, I'm learning that this is really fun and has become one of my favorite things to do as Community Producer. 😄
So welcome and thanks for opening the fourth issue of the E is for Eskwelabs Bi-Weekly Newsletter. Feel free to grab a coffee or tea and get settled, there's much we want to share with you. 🤗
What’s in this newsletter:
Learning:
📊 4 Free Business Intelligence Classes! WAIT—what?
💻 2 Free Python workshops! We're an official training partner for Shopee's Code Academy.
Resources for your Post-Covid Work/Life:
💡 26 Activities to keep your remote team connected
✨ Gain clarity with our free Current Me vs. Future Me goal-setting and reflection worksheet!
Keeping up with Eskwelabs:
🎊 It's here! Our Data Science Fellowship calendar for Cohort 5
📖 Tell me more: The stories behind the making of Eskwelabs
🤗 Meet Gerard, one of our first Manila team members.
📌 Learning
You had me at "FREE" ❤️ | 4 Trial classes from our BI program
We'll be making the meeting link available real soon.
✅ Click "GOING" on our Facebook events page.
✅ Answer questions from our BI pop quiz series on Facebook!
WAIT—what? 💖 | 2 Free Python workshops and the return of Aral-Aral
Eskwelabs is an official training partner of the Shopee Code League, the largest regional coding competition in Southeast Asia. As a part of this partnership, we are offering participants access to an upgraded version of Aral-Aral, a Python basics course, which is available on our learning platform on June 20th.
We also invite you to attend two FREE workshops for Shopee Code League participants:
Data Wrangling with Python (19 Jun 2020, Friday | 7:00 - 8:00PM SGT)
Prerequisite: basic knowledge of Python or complete the Aral-Aral pre-course
Art of Image Processing in Python (26 Jun 2020, Friday | 7:00 - 8:00PM SGT)
Prerequisite: intermediate knowledge of Python
Reach out to us with any questions at aralaral@eskwelabs.com.
📌 Resources for your Post-Covid Work/Life
Zoom fatigue who? Here are 26 activities to keep your "Work from Home" team engaged, energized, and connected
From this list we've made, our team has tried about 6 out of 26.
Here are some examples of what you can expect from the list:
Sometimes we need online socials that are silly and light...
B - Who is that Baby? game
C - Cooking challenge
Other times we want it to be more personal and intimate...
F - Family Meet & Greet
H - Heart 2 Hearts
The detours you have to doge, the pitstops you have to make, and the length of the road you'll be taking from your current self to your future self is entirely up to you. It sounds intimidating at the start. But clarity always begins with one step. Sometimes...one click! 🖥️
DOWNLOAD: Current Me vs. Future Me journaling worksheet ✨
✅ Join our Analytics SkillsCourse learning community here.
✅ Register for the study session-specific learning circles here.
📌 Keeping up with Eskwelabs
🎉 SAVE THESE DATES: Data Science Fellowship Cohort 5 🎉
June 20th Application Launch for Data Science Fellowship Cohort 5
July 31st Close of Applications
August 1-14th Fellowship Interviews
In the coming weeks, we will host various online events to celebrate the work of our current "quarantine" cohort Fellows in our first virtual Demo Day! Stay tuned for the invitation.
Stories Behind Eskwelabs
Eskwelabs Co-Founder Angela chats with Carla Mumar (who has also helped coach the Data Science Fellows!) on her podcast A Dose of Intensity about what it's like to build Eskwelabs.
Angela: "What do we wish for our graduates? It's honestly to be able to thrive in this world that you described—a world that is very scary, they don't know what's going to happen, and that's happening now. That's COVID. That type of feeling you have of uncertainty, imagine you have that for the rest of your life. Not knowing when the quarantine will be over, [asking] when am I going to be able to go to the store again, when can I see my friends again? That level of uncertainty—and if you didn't know how to deal with it—it'd be pretty terrible. Not taking any action is bad. Not doing anything, not changing is bad. The challenge is: how to change and what to change? Also, how to not be so hard on ourselves? ... It's all part of the learning process."
📚 If you enjoyed the podcast, the books recommended are here:
Factfulness by Hans Rosling (Review by Bill Gates here)
Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World by Jacqueline Novogratz
In this newsletter we talked about the story of Eskwelabs, now let's hear from one of the first people to join the Eskwelabs Manila team. Amidst the global pandemic, he continues to push forward in the pursuit of lifelong learning. Let's celebrate Gerard's 1-year anniversary with the team and see what he's been up to with Aral-Aral. 🎉
MEET & GREET: Gerard Catangui, Eskwelabs Marketing Associate 📑
Gerard: "Since the start of the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) in Metro Manila, our Aral-Aral community group has seen a surge of membership. From 250 members to 800+ members—people who wanted to learn the basics and foundations of Data Science. With the current skills gap in the country, we are trying to make sure that in the future of work, nobody gets left behind."
Get to know Gerard better and read the full Q&A here. 💬
That’s it for our fourth issue of the newsletter! Thanks for reading. ❤️
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Have a good Sunday, everyone! See you again in your inbox next, next week!
💬 Let's discuss below: What is the most important life lesson you've learned so far?
💌 Cheering you on always,
Francine
Community Producer at Eskwelabs