Introduction
Earlier last month, i applied for a scholarship on Udacity in partnership with Microsoft for the new Machine learning nanodegree being developed in collaboration with Microsoft, luckily for me i was amongst the 10,000 scholars selected to take the foundational course for the nanodegree program. An exclusive student community was being created for participants of the scholarship including experts from the Udacity team to be able to answer questions and provide technical advice to students, moreover students can use the Slack workspace to collaborate with and get support from other classmates or ask questions to the team of Community Managers available.
Udacity is where lifelong learners come to learn the skills they need, to land the jobs they want, to build the lives they deserve, its mission is to power careers through tech education. Udacity partners with leading technology companies like Google, AWS, Facebook, AT&T and Accenture amongst others to learn how technology is transforming industries, and teach the critical tech skills that companies are looking for in their workforce to individuals by providing scholarships such as the MACHINE LEARNING SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM FOR MICROSOFT AZURE. If you're interested in learning new technical skills or trying to advance your carrer in tech, you can always sign up for newsletter here to get updated concerning future scholarships opportunity.
For the phase one of the scholarship, over 10,000 learners were selected and just 300 top scholars would be granted the opportunity to enroll in the new Machine learning scholarship program. The foundation course includes Introduction to machine learning on Azure with a Low-code Experience, where students would get to learn about the foundations of machine learning, build practical experience by training, validating, and evaluating machine learning models on the Azure platform.
The foundation course includes eight lessons in total
- Introduction to instructors and high-level look at the course structure
- Introduction to machine learning
- Model training
- Supervised & Unsupervised learning
- Applications of machine learning
- Managed services for machine learning
- Responsible AI
- Conclusion
#50DaysOfUdacity Challenge
This challenge is similar to the #100DaysOfCode we commit and participate on twitter and other platforms for public learning, but it's more personalized to this scholarship program. Three initiatives #50daysofUdacity Challenge, Student Leaders and Study Groups have been launched during the course of the program, the challenge is to build a habit of consistent practice of new skills by making a public commitment of practicing the topics of the Foundation Course every day for 50 days! as much as the challenge is one of the criteria to get selected for the phase two, it is also created to facilitate students to learn together with the community. Here is my public commitment to 50 days of learning, i would be sharing the knowledge acquired daily by writing technical articles around machine learning while building my technical writing skills and also sharing resources to help interested folks get started with machine learning.
