Microsoft Reactor

In this episode of Coding the Next Generation, we'll be talking to Zach Everett, who recently did a stint at Microsoft to complete his year 10 work experience.

We'll hear about how Zach got involved with tech, and what drove him to want to do work experience and pursue a future career in tech! Zach will take us through the many tech projects he built and deployed, and events he attended during his short time in the Microsoft team, and he'll give you his take on what it's like to be a Cloud Advocate at Microsoft.

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Renee Noble
Renee is the Regional Cloud Advocate for the Sydney Reactor and the Australia region. She's passionate about technology, education, community, and bringing them all together in-person and online.

A self-proclaimed "Jane of all trades", Renee has worked in sectors across tech, outreach, and education. She's worked in ML and web development in the past, dabbles in embedded tech, and is always keen to learn more!

Renee is a passionate women in tech advocate, spending her spare time leading the Girls' Programming Network to support women and girls in tech. She also teaches CS in a high school and runs her own business, ConnectEd Code, working to bring exciting coding opportunities to kids and teachers. Beside teaching and tech she loves swing dancing, cats, and having a ridiculous number of plants

Zach Everett - Student
Zach is a 16 year old student currently in year 10, living in Melbourne. Zach has been programming for over 2 years and has taught himself to code by mostly watching YouTube videos. He is quite proficient at Game Development in Unity and C# programming and has a little experience with Python. Zach recently was fortunate enough to undertake work experience for a week in the Microsoft Reactor and started learning HTML. Currently at school Zach is undertaking Web Design and Applied Computing and hopes after completing VCE to study Computer Science at University. When not coding and gaming, Zach has casual jobs as a Tennis Coach and also tutors primary school kids in Maths and English.