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Career Day at Austin’s MakerSquare

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Jan 31, 2014

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Gene Chatham, Mateo Clarke, and Davis Martin with Million Mile Month

MakerSquare’s most recent 10-week developer bootcamp came to a close last night as 15 groups of students presented at Career Day.

The program began in Austin last February and is designed to turn hopefuls with little-to-no experience into professionals.

Take a look at some of the groups below:

Elaine Looney, Jennifer Scales and Chris Henney with The Shed.

The Shed is a community based tool sharing platform, which allows its users to share and borrow tools based on proximity.

Chris Boette, Ben White, and Andrew Krueger with Mars Attracts

Mars Attracts is a flight reservation app set in the near future, facilitating permanent relocation and/or adverture planning to a newly colonized Mars.

Kits, developed by Tom Seals and Ross Kinney (not pictured) enables you to create collections of things, called "kits." Once published, others can discover your kit and provide feedback or simply get inspiration.

Greg Samek and Kendra McClanahan with Local Food Roots.

Local Food Roots is a website that allows local restaurants to find products from local farms, purchase them, and organize

John Caldwell, Rich Edwards, and Matt Larsh with MakerPong, an app that allows players to enter a league where they can log their game scores, review their rankings and stats, and challenge others.

Gene Chatham, Mateo Clarke, and Davis Martin with Million Mile Month

Million Mile Month is an app for users to log fitness activities with the goal of Texans collectively logging one million miles in the month of April to raise awareness of youth health issues.

Lesley Martin del Campo and Tejas Rawal with Point BPoint.

Point BPoint is a network for those who have an undying urge to explore the world. The app allows users to interact with like-minded travelers, share their adventures, and learn about unique experiences throughout the world.

Jorge Polanco with TalentCrops, a photo sharing social network. The app allows users to share pictures they find interesting and vote for the best ones by category.

Case White and Laney Bevill with IdeaTap, a platform to solicit ideas from a controlled population and gauge their popularity among the population.

HouseSit is developed by Mayer Seidman, Stewart Imel, and Emma Laroche (not pictured). HouseSit is an online collaboration platform for house-sitting. The app provides homeowners the ability to book a house sitter for a set period of time.

Aaron Hayslip and Mike Yasso with Shop141 which provides a marketplace for consumers to purchase everyday products that in some way reflect a charitable organization's mission. It is a way to give consumers the ability to donate the amount of their purchase 1 for 1.

Brian Sisney, Eric Boggs, and Tom Hanlon with CareWell, an app for families caring for their aging loved ones. Family members can share tasks, upload photos, and provide positive encouragement to each other through simple interactions.

FanFollow developed by Greg Pfeffer and Andy Murphy (not pictured). FanFollow is an online platform for facilitating carpooling to music festivals and other major events. Users can purchase spots in other user's cars via the in-app booking and payment transfer system.

Casey McNeil and Kelley Rytlewski with Flashcard App, an efficient way to commit anything to long-term memory. The app quizzes you in multiple, mobile-friendly formats and uses spaced repetition algorithms to surface the facts you need to review when you'd be most likely to forget them.

Jeff Conner, Jesse Brandenburg, Tyler Wasden with Connect2Good. The app connects community members looking to donate with local charitable organizations.