Our mission is to create a world class collaboration that supports UCSB Esteem Scholars and the California STEM community. Our group includes University of California, Santa Barbara Engineering  Esteem Scholars, STEM students, faculty, alumni, STEM education mentors and Tri-County STEM innovators, and STEM supporters. Anyone interested in creating excellence in ESTEEM-UCSB, and building resources and opportunities for Esteem Scholars is invited to participate. *********************************** …

Talk about latest trends in Web Development, with an emphasis on PHP programming and Javascript. You'll learn about new Frameworks, tricks, and tips, and I'm sure you'll have many things to teach us as well. Follow us on Twitter | LinkedIn | Facebook

More and more folks in the software, systems, engineering, and business communities have gotten hooked on the two great-tasting philosophies of agile and lean. They are using these techniques to build awesome technology companies.  This group has events that will help members connect and grow their tech companies using these philosophies.

Are you ready to take control of your anger? Have colleagues, friends or family members complained about your temper? Has your anger lead to problems with the law, at work or your home? At Anger Management 818 we offer several different programs designed to help you learn about your anger, and manage your emotions more effectively. Let our anger management counselors help you perceive challenging situations differently to manage your daily life more smoothly and calmly. It is time for you to fee …

Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art (LAAFA) offers foundational drawing, painting, sculpting and digital art classes for beginning to advanced art students in Van Nuys and Santa Monica school locations as well as online.  For those interested in a 3-year course of study, students may apply to the BFA Degree and Certificate Programs for both Fine Art and Entertainment Art. All art programs are taught by talented professional gallery and entertainment artists. LAAFA recently opened an art study …

We are a group of people in the San Fernando Valley / Los Angeles area who love and use a variety of programming languages: Python, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, Perl, Java, Clojure, Objective-C, C++, C#, C and many more. This group is for Software Developers only!

We are about FUN effective fitness programs and modern wellness education for our community. Looking better in a swimsuit and having pain free mobility are the only side effects! As therapist and trainer in our 3rd decade of helping people reach their goals in health, fitness and mobility, we use CST to enchant your fitness experiences, stave away boredom of old style training and put you on a corrective course in wellness. We share with you mental and physical preparedness using CST, as the on …

Carbon Five hosts a bi-weekly, intimate hack night for developers who want to code and collaborate for a couple of hours after work. Bring your own project or work with someone else. Developers of all experience levels are welcome. We'll kick off with a very brief daily-style intro where everyone gives their name, says what they're working on and whether or not that want a hand... then we'll get our hack on. There will be at least a couple Carbon Five folks around to help out. Doors open around …

Discover Partnership - with compassion, understanding and the ability to get what you need with less effort and more satisfaction for both of you. PAX Programs is in the business of educating women about men, and men about women. We seek to illuminate the instinctive behaviors of both men and women that may be limiting our partnerships at home, at work and in the world. PAX, the Latin word for “peace” and an acronym for Partnership, Adoration and Xtasy, fosters peace between the sexes by provid …

The Inka Medicine Wheel represents an ancient four-fold path for transformation: shed attachment to the past that restrains us; confront and overcome fears of the future and death that paralyze us; access a sea of consciousness as vast as time itself; then re-create our unique destinies with beauty, power and grace. We transform our deepest wounds into sources of strength and compassion, which become the basis of our power to heal. We are pleased to present this one-year shamanic training progra …

Discover Partnership - with compassion, understanding and the ability to get what you need with less effort and more satisfaction for both of you. PAX Programs is in the business of educating women about men, and men about women. We seek to illuminate the instinctive behaviors of both men and women that may be limiting our partnerships at home, at work and in the world. PAX, the Latin word for “peace” and an acronym for Partnership, Adoration and Xtasy, fosters peace between the sexes by providi …

We offer you more than networking and referrals because we are a “Business Development” group. Our program offers you more value for your time, money and resources because in addition to gaining valuable and credible business contacts that will help you to weather the storm of the current economy, we also help you to become a stronger business owner. Most importantly, we help you to create targeted co-marketing bonds with other members that will work to drive new customers to your business. We d …

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx, local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At our TEDxSantaMonica events, TEDTalks and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a community setting. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized.

Santa Barbara Hack Nights is a bi-weekly meet up for anyone wanting to collaborate on a software project, learn a new programming language, join other open source projects with current members, socialize with like-minded developers & designers, or just an excuse to drink plenty of caffeine! Get an opportunity to work with local developers and designers to build something! Jump in on a current open source project, or pitch the group on your own.

Nike Training Club workouts are every Tuesday at 6:30PM at Nike Santa Monica (395 Santa Monica Boulevard Santa Monica, CA 90401). It is free and open to all, so bring a friend! We meet at the Nike Santa Monica store at 6:30pm - feel free to park in the parking structure at Santa Monica Place (if you get there before 6pm there is 2 hours of free parking). Check us out at Facebook.com/NTCLA Nike Training Club (NTC) is a full-body functional training program designed to help athletes make themselve …

Hoof Prints to Freedom at Rustic Canyon Ranch is a non profit 501(c)(3) equine rescue and education facility that specializes in Integrated Natural Horsemanship and Connective Horseback Riding™ and has a unique approach to Equine Experiental Leadership and Empowerment Programs. We are a nature based program nestled in the Santa Monica Mountains located in Pacific Palisades/Santa Monica. There is no need to travel to the Valley, Burbank or Malibu. We are right here in your back yard. We have hand …

This group will focus on the use of Amazon CloudSearch for the development and deployment of search applications. Amamzon CloudSearch is a fully-managed search service in the cloud that runs in the AWS cloud. Presentations and discussions will cover topics such as: Set up and getting started with CloudSearch Configuring search fields Relevance tuning APIs and integration Security Working with other AWS services User cases and lessons learned This group is for anyone interested in search technolo …

This is a meetup for Scala enthusiasts in the Santa Barbara area. We welcome everyone from newbies to experts. Meetups will hopefully cover a variety of topics ranging from the Scala language, to related frameworks (such as Play and Lift), to more philosophical discussions about the benefits and pitfalls of functional programming as a concept. We will meet up monthly (usually in downtown SB) for an open forum as well as presentations. Punch and pie will be served. If you are interested in doing …

Community Memorial Hospital -HEALTHaware Program has a walking Fitness program for the past four years which meets Every Tuesday and Thursday at 0800 to 9;30am to walk around the walking path at the Community Park on Telephone and Kimball in East Ventura. * weather permitting... of course...At the walking program, a Hospital representive will perform Blood pressures before and after you walk and invite you to join the FREE HEALTHaware program at the Hospital which consists of a free Fasting Chol …

Are you a high-achieving, outside-of-the-box-thinking mom who wants the best for your child? Do you often try to do everything you can to give your child the best advantages in life? Do you have a child entering Kindergarten or 1st grade this coming Fall 2013? If so, have you considered a language immersion program for your child -- particularly one in Mandarin Chinese? Studies show that there are distinct advantages for children who are bilingual from an early age. Since the Chinese language is …

This is group for individuals wishing to develop, build and program drones. I have degrees in Physics and Engineering and I have taught programming (including Artificial Intelligence) for 18 years. I am starting this group to work with other entrepreneurs and drone enthusiasts to develop drones to support business activity. I'm looking forward to having fun solving problems together.

About NatureBridge: 40 years is just the beginning We brought our first students to Yosemite National Park in 1971. Forty years later, more than 30,000 K-12 students from more than 600 schools participate in our three- to five-day field science programs each year in Yosemite National Park, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Olympic National Park, Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, and Channel Islands National Park. Access for all students is fundamental In 40 years we’ve introdu …

Los Angeles CoffeeScript CoffeeScript is a little language that compiles into JavaScript. Underneath that awkward Java-esque patina, JavaScript has always had a gorgeous heart. CoffeeScript is an attempt to expose the good parts of JavaScript in a simple way. Who We Are We're a group of professionals so in love with CoffeeScript we've developed our own tutorials. We're starting this meetup to show others why we enjoy developing in CoffeeScript and to interact with others who are also using Coff …

The Mind: Each of us has tremendous amount of Mind Power, but the sad thing is that we don’t utilize even half of it. Researches have shown that even geniuses do not use over 10% of their total Mind Power. That should give you an idea of the vastness of this untapped power. The Rationale: When we talk about Mind Power, we refer more specifically to that of the subconscious mind. A powerful storehouse that save all messages. A clear mirror that reflects all the ideas you feed it positive & negati …

This Meetup is designed for folks that want to learn certain functions of the digital / mobile / new media / entrepreneur and technology fields but haven't. Many people unsuccessfully enlist friends, take courses, read manuals or never pursue their passions or hobbies because they simply can't afford to, don't have time to or feel some sort of insecurity that holds them back. Apple has courses, there are plenty of great workshops, classes and online tutorials out there, however sometimes there a …

A group that brings together mobile programmers from around Ventura County to discuss ideas, projects, and experiences, while encouraging networking, collaboration, and friendship.

"I like writing beautiful code" "I code in the JVM" "I like 'open spaces' conferences" Is this you? If so, then you're one of us!  So join us at our next meetup as we hang-out together for code, beer*, food and fun! *Alternative beverages provided for the rest of us

This is a great group for anyone who has weight to lose, a fitness goal to reach or if you just want to be held accountable and have some motivation, then this program is for you. The program includes stretching, running, boot camp workout, abdominal exercises and even a cool down session.