In an era where ultra-connectedness is leading to real virtual fatigue, the chapter's Emerging Leaders (ELs) and their Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC) counterparts, are creatively connecting to others and conquering some of the COVID-19 confines.
AFCEA has a networking soul, which the chapter ELs and NVCC view as a perfect conduit for world-wide connectedness like never before. The members are targeting April 2022 as a historic benchmark where AFCEA chapters around the world will band together for its First Annual Global Hack-A-Thon.
In the interim, these young leaders are busy creating, hosting and curating sessions for a Hack My... series. With AFCEA's strong suit of networking as the backdrop, the Hack My... series offers practical, insightful sessions on working within the information technology (IT) industry. Topics span everything from Hack My Interview, Hack My Resume, Hack My Internship, Hack My Job, Hack My Security Clearance and more.
Hack My Colleagues took place in February as the inaugural session, sponsored by VG Systems. AFCEA-member NVCC students Daniel Embry, Muhammad Janjua and Nikolett Laszlo, led a well-rounded panel that proffered three unique perspectives to their peers. Each student panelist expounded on the power of AFCEA networking and its essential role in helping them as they embarked upon their first entry-level positions within the IT industry. The hour-long session boasted 32 attendees, excellent follow-up questions, some new AFCEA recruits, and an indication of the hunger for more. The next Hack My... session is slated for April 16th.
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