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Volunteers needed to teach web dev in NYC and Bay Area

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Re: Volunteers needed to teach web dev in NYC and Bay Area

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Post by infecto »

toephu2 wrote: post #4

The last thing the Bay Area needs is more web devs flooding the market. Coding bootcamps have already done enough damage.

While I tend to agree on the bootcamp side I would disagree in context of this post. This is teaching students in high school . I am guessing their aim is to get kids interested in CS where no courses exists in their school system. I don't think there will be a flood of kids hitting the market based on volunteering here.

Re: Volunteers needed to teach web dev in NYC and Bay Area

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Post by ianmclaury »

wgyn wrote: post #9

Mission Bit is an organization doing this on a local scale in SF: https://www.missionbit.com/ . It looks like the main difference is that Mission Bit works directly with SF public schools. Personally, it feels like there is plenty more space for non-profits reaching out to underserved communities.

I'm sure there are other organizational differences, but ScriptEd also works directly with public schools.

Re: Volunteers needed to teach web dev in NYC and Bay Area

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Post by glossybrown »

mtaylor wrote: post #10

This will be my fifth year volunteering with ScriptEd! There's nothing quite like teaching others to solidify your own understanding, and nothing as rewarding as seeing the light go on when one of my students grasps a concept. I strongly encourage devs to volunteer!

As a fourth-year returning volunteer, I strongly agree with all of this!

Re: Volunteers needed to teach web dev in NYC and Bay Area

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Post by j4pe »

Seems promising! I've been looking for opportunities like this. More information would be helpful, specifically:

* What does the time commitment look like? My work won't allow me to spend two full school days out of the office every week, but I can probably get away with teaching in the morning and starting late.

* What are your curriculum resources? Teaching scratch/pygame is a different story from trying to ram a CS101-style course into high schoolers' brains.

Re: Volunteers needed to teach web dev in NYC and Bay Area

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Post by yellowapple »

toephu2 wrote: post #4

The last thing the Bay Area needs is more web devs flooding the market. Coding bootcamps have already done enough damage.

My impression was that the demand for web devs (especially in the Bay Area) is still outstripping the supply. Maybe that's starting to change.

Re: Volunteers needed to teach web dev in NYC and Bay Area

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Post by ewong »

wgyn wrote: post #9

Mission Bit is an organization doing this on a local scale in SF: https://www.missionbit.com/ . It looks like the main difference is that Mission Bit works directly with SF public schools. Personally, it feels like there is plenty more space for non-profits reaching out to underserved communities.

We agree that Mission Bit does great work too! But yeah, we also work directly with SF and Oakland public schools, just not the same ones. Another thing that makes us different is that we focus on preparing our students for paid internships in high schools. Sounds like we agree that more students should access CS education.

Re: Volunteers needed to teach web dev in NYC and Bay Area

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Post by ewong »

j4pe wrote: post #15

Seems promising! I've been looking for opportunities like this. More information would be helpful, specifically: * What does the time commitment look like? My work won't allow me to spend two full school days out of the office every week, but I can probably get away with teaching in the morning and starting late. * What are your curriculum resources? Teaching scratch/pygame is a different story from trying to ram a C…

Haha, I don't think many employers would be too happy about two full school days out of the office every week. We generally have volunteers teach in the morning or in the afternoon. It depends on school sites, but it's a total of 2-3 hours per week in the classroom. Apply at the link and we can tell you what's available and see if something works!

You can check out our curriculum here: https://github.com/ScriptEdcurriculum/curriculum17-18

Hope that helps!

Re: Volunteers needed to teach web dev in NYC and Bay Area

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Post by BeccaScriptEd »

sluggg wrote: post #18

I am attempting to apply for the SF area. I thought that the url did not include "volunteer" at the end b/c the NYC link did not and it took me to a "daily session landing page" ScriptEd google doc that I could edit. Odd. Y'all should fix that.

Thanks for pointing that out - we've changed the editing rights!
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