Hey Treehouse Students!

Welcome back to another Networking Thursday, where you can make connections with other Treehouse Students.

⬇️ Scroll down to learn about our upcoming Treehouse Festival! ⬇️

💬 How to participate:

1. Answer the icebreaker activity – It's Global Accessibility Awareness Day! In honor of this event, we have a few questions you can choose from to answer:
   • What are some good examples of Accessibility (share a website, app, video, image, etc)
   • What improvements should Treehouse make over the following year?
   • What are you doing to celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day and to spread accessibility awareness?
2. Share your LinkedIn profile URL for other students to connect to.
3. Share links and/or screenshots of the projects you've been working on.
4. Share your interests, hobbies, etc!
5. Chat with other students here by responding to their posts!

Make those connections, support each other, leave some endorsements/recommendations on other student's LinkedIn profiles, lend a helping hand to folx in search of work in tech, and give some positive feedback on fellow student's projects. We're all on this learning journey together!

I'll kick things off! 💬

I'm Ryan Mouser, the Content & Community Marketing Specialist here at Treehouse. My pronouns are he/him. I was 15 years old when I started learning to code in PHP for a popular text-based MMORPG game. I've been with Treehouse for over 2 years now and have had the amazing opportunity to wear many different hats. I've been learning with Treehouse since 2015 (you can check out my previous profile here).

Currently, I'm working alongside our world-class team on some exciting opportunities to bring the Treehouse Community closer together. Stay tuned! 😀

Outside of Treehouse, I have the joy of living life with my incredible wife, our 3 awesome kids, and our 2 cat furbabies. We love to make music, garden, cook, play games, and watch fun TV.

Here are some great examples of accessible websites.

You can connect with me on LinkedIn here. Looking forward to connecting with y'all!

Hoping you all stay safe, healthy, and well!

🎟 Reserve your spot for our FREE online conference – Treehouse Festival!

The Treehouse Festival is an online conference designed for Treehouse students and all aspiring developers and designers.

On June 7th-11th, attend live sessions, build your network, and learn new skills from speakers who represent some of the most exciting areas of the tech industry. Each day of the Festival will begin at 9AM PST and end at 12PM PST.

🎉 Topics at the Festival include…

• Product Design: A Pathway to Easier Living
• Engineering Accessibility
• My Developer Journey
• Building a ToDo app with React & Django
• Mindfulness & Cultivating Anti-Racism at Work
• The Importance of Women & People of Color in Tech
• Recruiter Panel Q&A Session
• Level Up Your Python Code with Enumerate, Zip, & Map
• ...and more!

🎁 5 Days of Giveaways!

All active Treehouse students that RSVP to the event will automatically be entered to win amazing prizes. Are you a current student who likes free stuff? Register for the Festival to be entered in today's giveaway!

Don't miss this incredible opportunity to learn from tech experts and network with folx in the industry. We can't wait to see you there! ✨