EOF Outreach, Alumni Updates, Professional Development Opportunities, and more!

Jun 23, 2025

EOF Outreach 🙋‍♀️

Thursday, June 26th, 11:59 PM

On Sunday, June 29th, from 1:00 to 2:30 PM on Busch Campus, SWE will be participating in the Rutgers Engineers of the Future (EOF) program by presenting to the incoming EOF cohort. We’ll be introducing our organization and leading an interactive activity with the students. If you're interested in volunteering to help run the activity, please fill out the Summer EOF Outreach Sign-Up sheet by Thursday, June 26th at 11:59PM, as a Slack channel will be created for coordination. Volunteers will need to have completed Protection of Minors training. Feel free to sign up if you're available, and don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions or concerns!

Alumni Contact Update Form 📲

Calling all Rutgers SWE Alumni! In an effort to update our alumni database, we are asking that alumni provide us with updated contact and current working information. Please fill out this quick form to provide us with some basic information about you and your career. This helps us continue to include our alumni in events and build our network.

Link to the Form!

Professional Development Opportunities 🤵‍♀️

Break Barriers and Unlock Potential in the Latest Hackathons

Various Deadlines per Hackathon

AWS Breaking Barriers
PRIZES: $16,000 in cash
DEADLINE: June 23, 2025
Build an innovative application that combines AWS generative AI services with next-generation connectivity
JOIN THE HACKATHON: https://bit.ly/breakingbarrierss

Adobe Express Add-ons Hackathon
PRIZES: $30,000 in cash
DEADLINE: July 13, 2025
Design and pitch your idea for an Adobe Express Add-on
JOIN THE HACKATHON: https://bit.ly/adobeexpress25s

Google Maps Platform Awards
PRIZES: Trophies, social promotion, swag, and more
DEADLINE: July 31, 2025
Build a new project or showcase a previous project leveraging at least one Google Maps Platform API or SDK.
JOIN THE HACKATHON: https://bit.ly/googlemaps25s

Hackon 2025

August 22nd - 24th

MLH (Major League Hacking) is a public benefit corporation in the tech education space. MLH empowers student developers, also known as hackers, by supporting organizers of weekend-long ideathons called hackathons.

Join MLH at their annual hackathon organizer conference this summer from August 22-24th, Hackcon! This opportunity is for students to learn how to host an awesome hackathon and meet other organizers from events across the globe. Sessions are hosted on everything from how to raise funding for your event to how to attract students from outside your university.

Scholarships are also available to help students take advantage of this opportunity at a low cost.

ASHE NJ Student Competition

5 pm, September 12th 2025

The American Society of Highway Engineers (ASHE) – New Jersey Sections is proud to present the 2nd Annual Student Competition, open to all active associate-level and undergraduate-level college students. This competition offers a chance to engage with real Civil Engineering concepts and demonstrate your innovative thinking and technical abilities. Competition Highlights:

Mentorship Support: Work with experienced mentors and subject matter experts to guide your team.
Real-World Challenge: Analyze an actual Civil Engineering Concept Development Report.
Proposal Development: Create a Preliminary Engineering Technical Proposal that:
- Supports or challenges the existing analysis
- Introduces innovative improvements to the project
Professional Presentation: Deliver an in-person presentation to industry professionals using visual aids such as presentation boards and/or PowerPoint.

This is a fantastic opportunity to:

Showcase your technical and presentation skills
Compete with peers in a professional setting
Network with industry professionals
Gain hands-on experience of what engineers do in the real world
Resume-building recognition

Please see the attached flyer for the Kickoff Meeting Link/Code, Letter of Interest Submission, and website. Key dates to know:

Kick off meeting: Sunday September 7, 9:30 am
Letter of intent: Submittal: Friday September 12, 5pm
Technical Proposal Submission: Friday February 13, 5pm
In-Person Interview: Saturday February 28, 9am

For more details, please reply to this email or contact Vanessa Rios at vanessa.rios@collierseng.com.

Intercollegiate Math Tournament 2/28/26 @ Columbia University

On 02/28/2026

Save the date & pre-register for the Intercollegiate Math Tournament — the first in-person, team-based undergraduate math competition — at Columbia University on 2/28/26! ICMT is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization run by Columbia graduate students and former organizers of high school math tournaments such as the Berkeley Math Tournament, Stanford Math Tournament, Harvard–MIT Math Tournament, and more. Undergraduate students of all levels of experience are invited to compete; Division A contains problems of similar difficulty to the Putnam for experienced contestants, while Division B is more beginner-friendly. The contest will consist of three exciting rounds, information about which can be found on the website.

Website & Sample Problems:

https://intercollegiatemathtournament.org/

Pre-registration Form: https://ic.mt/register

While financial aid is not guaranteed, pre-registration data is used to try and apply for funding this month to help reimburse travel to New York. If you have any questions or are a graduate student interested in being involved in problem-writing, please email us at team@intercollegiatemathtournament.org.

A Very "Boring" Engineering Challenge

The annual Not-a-Boring Competition is a competition aimed at college student groups where the objective is to dig a tunnel as fast as possible. Building a tunnel boring machine is challenging and rewarding, and is a great way to apply what you might be learning in the classroom to a real-world problem.

This competition is used as a prime recruiting event where many engineers and operations team members have come from the competition in prior years. It's a great way to get your foot in the door here, and the process of getting sponsors and funding your teams puts you in touch with countless more engineering companies.

Internships in AI at Vector Institute - Applications Now Open!

Due July 21, for Winter 2026

The Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to machine learning and deep learning, is launching fall 2025 and winter 2026 AI research internships where you can gain hands-on experience in machine learning! You can interact with Vector’s X (Twitter) & LinkedIn.

Applications for Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence’s Research Internship Program are NOW OPEN! Work alongside world-renowned Vector Faculty Members who are pushing the boundaries of machine learning and deep learning in critical areas such as sequential decision making, generative models, foundation models, AI for science, privacy, security and fairness, and health. Interested in working as a research intern this fall 2025 and winter 2026? Learn more and apply here.

Vector is committed to workforce development in AI and to building a strong and diverse AI ecosystem in Canada. Vector encourages applications from all underrepresented groups.
Applications are now open and the deadline to apply is June 2, 2025 for Fall 2025 and July 21, 2025 for Winter 2026.

Have questions? Email us at internships@vectorinstitute.ai.