News you can use

It’s Friday, and our first work week of the new year is coming to a close. Here’s a reminder to keep those resolutions and promises you made to yourself going into last year, like these 20 Baltimore tech and entrepreneurship leaders offered us.

This Friday is also the start of a new weekly newsletter roundup of links from around Baltimore, ICYMI edition. Below, check out a list of resources to help you achieve those professional goals, as well as local news both in and out of the techsphere.

Dropping gems

• Inside Business Pod from Baltimore’s very own McKeever (Mac) Conwell founder of RareBreed Ventures and Liam Gill offer advice and stories of entrepreneurs to grow your business.
• Aaron Brooks, founder of Mastermnd.io, launched these Advent of Code challenges, a series meant to illustrate the thought process behind solving coding problems using programming fundamentals.
• Technical.ly’s Culture Builder Live, hosted by CEO Chris Wink, offers advice from industry professionals on how to build better companies.

In other news

• University of Baltimore’s $20,000 Rise to the Challenge pitch competition is on the horizon. This years deadline is TBD, but 2020’s deadline was Feb. 28. (Also, note that UBalt's website is down as of this writing.)
• Alumni from the Thinkful Baltimore coding bootcamp discuss their journey from bootcamp to hired at this virtual meetup Sat, Jan. 8, from 5 to 6.pm.
• School returns with the omicron surge has been a nationwide debate, Baltimore city’s return to classrooms on Thursday was no different.
• Watch the budget. Baltimore city police snuck an $18 million purchase of a helicopter fleet through the board of estimates.
• The 2022 Maryland governor election is gearing up as seven Democratic candidates for governor discussed their education policies at an online forum.

— Technical.ly reporter Donte Kirby (donte@technical.ly) 

P.S. As promised yesterday, we did indeed publish Technical.ly's 2022 editorial calendar today. Check it out below and reply to this email with any story ideas, for January or any month!