u/Thin-War-4593

Hi guys I'm a high schooler from UCVTS. And I need help choosing between DECA and FBLA. So on the one hand UCVTS has the biggest FBLA chapter in NJ and getting leadership by winning at SLC and NLC will look really good and get me that leadership. I am also planning on taking the Intro to IT test because I already have a really great tech background and it helps me farm certificates while studying like ComptiaA+, Cisco Networking etc.(I am not sure how those look for college, but they're pretty good for landing high school internships). However I am not sure if I need another actvity to bolster my pretty substantial tech background.

On the other hand I could join DECA which is a much smaller club in my school however, has better scholarship prizes and I heard is even more competitive and is even considered an international competition. It also aligns with my interests in Entrepenurship and proves I have a second "spike" in entrepeneurship that coincides with my iSTEM summer program, the business I am running. And can help me for when I apply to a summer entrepeneurship program at Rowan for engineering over the summer.

Please help me decide guys, lemme know if you guys need more info. Thanks!

Context:

So I have been tinkering with hermes and am starting to make a personal suite of hermes agents running on ollama that tailors to everything in my personal life. I am using RabbitMQ to faciliatate communication between my main bot that I chat with and handles agent orchestration. PostgreSQL to serve as a database that stores all of these tasks and ranks them by urgency so those get done first.

I am also using obsidian which already has all of my notes and qdrant which uses semantic layering so it can find deeper connections as context for all of my agents.

The Main Problems:

I currently have n8n and ngrok running on a single docker-compose file on my main server, however I have multiple services I want to take full advantage of, so I will be keeping my heavy database apps attatched to a single specified server and using compose to spin them up there while letting my agents roam and find where they can "fit in" I'm thinking of using kubernetes to manage these individual agent containers because I have very limited hardware resources. Is there a way to use Kompose to make some containers stay on a specified device, and allow others to roam, like a certain YAML attribute?

Another thing I wanna do is create a parallel agent workflow and a linear agent workflow to work through my tasks. I'm thinking of using n8n for this to query the kubernetes api server to see if it can fit an agent with its current resources(overly simplified, but kinda what I want to do). If it can multiple agents are spawned in. However if it cannot it will only be allowed to use a single agent to work through a task. Ollama is my main limiting factor because I don't even have a solid GPU and I can't spawn multiple ollama services so all my agents even if they work in parallel might have to use only one singular or maybe 2 spread out ollama services.

Stand out connect is a college run program by UChicago that essentially pairs high schoolers to startups in their area and prepares them with a good resume and linkedin. With those tools you then interview at companies until they choose you and select you to intern. I recently got in with a 1000 dollar scholarship. The con is it is still paid and I need to pay 975 dollars. On the other hand there is the Governor's STEM scholars program that is more prestigious but I have to wait until September to know if I got admitted by then I can't accept standoutconnect. I think I'm a strong candidate for the Governor's STEM scholars program but I'm not a 100% sure, so should I wait, or just accept StandoutConnect?

Hi guys I'm studying for the FBLA Intro to Information Technology test that I will be taking in like winter I think December-January. My school's pretty competitive and to get to the State Level Conference(SLC) I need to grind. Is it too early to start studying right now in Late June, like should I wait or should I start right now. I've been studying for the past week and doing Anki and stuff, as well as looking at Quizlets. If any FBLA alumni can give me any study tips or places to study that would help a lot thank you!

Hi guys I just narrowed down my decision from multiple scioly events like robot tour, materials science and circuit lab into just circuit lab. I really want to get on my school team this year and it's really competitive because I go to a magnet STEM school so should I start studying over the summer for the circuit lab event, cause tryouts are in like late september or early october. I'd say I have a solid understanding of electricity and electrical components but I suck at reading and especially creating schematics. I don't know any of the physics as well other than just literally I=VR.