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30Computer Science / Teaching

Learning from the frightening failure

A failure story can become a better engineering lesson.

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De-frightening failure
Computer ScienceDe-frightening failurePhoto: University of Waterloo / original source page

From being named an MLH top 50 honoree to scaling up hackathons, Jeffrey Zang learned to build by embracing failure.

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