ColorStack & Community
ColorStack’s primary focus is to help students succeed in these two key areas.
What are academics and careers?
This neighborhood is home to the Apollo Theater, where legendary artists like Aretha Franklin and James Brown performed.
What is Harlem?
This global tech giant, originally known for its search engine, has expanded into fields such as autonomous vehicles, AI, and cloud computing, all while maintaining its iconic search engine dominance.
What is Google?
This data structure uses LIFO (Last In, First Out) ordering.
What is a stack?
This viral internet challenge, inspired by a 2016 music video, involved people freezing in place while the camera moved around them.
What is the Mannequin Challenge?
This annual ColorStack event brings together students and industry professionals for networking and learning.
What is the ColorStack Summit?
This African American playwright, known for works like A Raisin in the Sun, was born in NYC and remains a giant in American theater.
Who is Lorraine Hansberry?
List 3 annual tech conferences
What are... (audience can confirm)
This notation describes the worst-case time complexity of an algorithm.
This NFL quarterback, known for his time with the New England Patriots and later the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, holds the record for most Super Bowl wins by any player in history.
Who is Tom Brady?
The founder and CEO of ColorStack.
Who is Jehron Petty?
This famous Dominican-American television personality and author, born and raised in the Bronx, is known for her advocacy on issues of immigration and Latina empowerment.
Who is Julissa Bermudez?
This popular programming term refers to a software feature or bug that developers intentionally leave in as a hidden joke or secret message.
What is an Easter egg?
The name of the first high-level programming language and when it was developed.
What is Fortran, 1957?
This Afro-Latina actress made history as the first Dominican woman to win an Oscar for her role in West Side Story (2021).
Who is Ariana DeBose?
The city where ColorStack’s national headquarters is located.
What is New York City?
This iconic Black-owned bookstore, founded in Harlem in 1934, became a central hub for intellectuals and writers during the Civil Rights Movement.
What is the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture?
This famous tech entrepreneur was ousted from his own company in 1985, only to return later and lead it to incredible success.
Who is Steve Jobs?
This mathematician and computer scientist first formally introduced the P vs NP problem in 1971.
Who is Stephen Cook?
This AI-generated song featuring "Drake" and "The Weeknd" went viral in 2023, sparking debate over deepfake music in the industry.
What is "Heart on My Sleeve"?
The founding month and Year of ColorStack.
What is May 2020?
This historic event took place in New York City in 1789 when George Washington took the oath of office as the first President of the United States. It occurred at this building, which is now a national landmark.
What is Federal Hall?
This African American woman played a critical role in NASA's Apollo space program as a mathematician, helping to calculate trajectories for space missions.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
This algorithmic problem is often used to demonstrate the concept of dynamic programming, where the goal is to compute the minimum number of operations required to convert one string into another.
What is the Levenshtein Distance (Edit Distance)?
This artist's debut album won 5 Grammy Awards in 1999, including Album of the Year, making her the first woman to win the award in that category.
Who is Lauryn Hill?