What's your day job?

[Alexa Stott]

Originally Posted by pfreivald

The various things I do for moolah:

High School Teacher: Physics, Robotics, American Sign Language
College Adjunct Instructor: American Sign Language
Writer (sold several short stories; first novel coming out this fall)
Beekeeper (doubling my number of colonies this spring... could get interesting!)

That's...really diverse. And cool! They offer a beekeeping class here at my university but I've always been too afraid to take it.

As for me...I'm just a computer science and psychology double degree at UMD and working on adding a minor in LGBT studies. I work in the College Park Scholars Science, Technology, and Society program as an undergraduate TA. I am currently a discussion section leader for the freshman colloquium. Last summer, I worked with my program director on a proposal to get a FIRST partnership started at the university. The director of the Maryland Robotics Institute was pretty supportive of it, but the dean of engineering was not as enthusiastic. Instead, we designed a service-learning practicum for sophomores in the program that allows them to go to a local high school and work with their robotics club. We still haven't given up on trying to get some sort of FIRST or Vex program going there, though...

In the past, I've worked as a machine learning researcher developing a system to automatically detect regional US accents.