Format Summary (In-Progress)

This is kind of like an internship, but online and a little less formal.
Unpaid, but looking into stipends from companies for students on Pell grants?
Mentors sign up and propose 1-2 projects for students to complete. (Open source project feature, general projects that are good to know, etc.)
Students sign up. Advanced students match with a mentor/project.
Over 6 weeks, students work with their mentor to create the project.
Along the way, we provide introductory support, as well as workshops on working in the tech industry, various technical topics, etc.
At the end students present what they made.

Draft Ideas

Date: beginning of July, 6 weeks.
- (Maybe beginner should be shorter)
- Prototype day and demo day
- July 6 to August 14?
Companies paying stipend to students? How much? Feasibility
Beginner track vs advanced track.
- Advanced = what prerequisites? Kevin: Data structures class Tyler: Have worked on some project before
- Some sort of application for advanced students "how do we interview 1000 students?"
Ongoing Tech Talks
- What do you need to know about going into big companies?
- Interview people with various backgrounds:
  - Large companies
  - Small startups
  - Founders of companies
  - Project Management, UX, technical artists, and other tech-adjacent fields
- Talks to expose students to different ideas of technology
- Startup related talks? Features vs benefits, how you can start a company, etc. Have been popular in the past.
- TODO(@Tyler Menezes) Talk to Hack Club about how the Tom Preston-Warner interview worked. Students could ask questions directly? Moderated? Etc
- What to do in college for career
- For HS thinking about college CS options
Mentor
- Mentors will propose 1-2 ideas for projects students can work on, we vet the projects, students can sign up for the projects they like
  - Groups of 3
  - (Mentor matching? / Suggested mentors for your interests)
  - (Should mentors be able to reject someone who wants to sign up for their project?)
- Mentors will be responsible for scheduling their own meetings with teams
- Mentors run scrum for their teams every week
Mentor Support
- Intro talks — what does everyone need to know?
  - Agile / scrum / how modern businesses actually work
- Providing "first tier support" for coding questions through our volunteers
- Set expectations with mentors
  - TODO: How much time per week in meetings
- Mentor training
  - What makes a good project? Where to get ideas for projects?
  - TODO

Materials Needed:

Volunteer facing

Program description + FAQ