Techquitable Futures Mentor Application

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Thank you for your interest in being a mentor for Techquitable Futures!

Our goal is to make the tech industry more accessible to all backgrounds, regardless of race, gender, sexuality, or education. To do so, we pair college students from underrepresented backgrounds interested in a career in software engineering with recent grads in industry to receive technical education and career guidance.

This program will begin October 10th, and last 10 weeks. As a mentor, the expected time commitment will be approx. 2-3 hours, dedicated to two primary responsibilities:

1) WEEKLY: Host a 60min session with a paired fellow. While the primary goal will be to review computer science concepts covered in the group lessons (see #2 for details), you are free to focus on what makes most sense for your fellow. We will provide a template every week with practice questions and other discussion topics for guidance as needed. As an option, you may also choose to be paired with another mentor to host sessions in 2 mentors to 1 fellow format.

2) At least ONCE over the 10 weeks: Co-teach one 60-90min group lesson on a technical topic along with 1-2 other mentors (so 30-45min of teaching each). Topic list includes: Arrays & Strings, Linked Lists, Stacks & Queues, Graphs & Trees, Sorting & Searching, Recursion. We have slide templates prepared for each topic from our previous cohorts that you can use to present - think Cracking the Coding Interview but live and interactive.

The application is due September 19th. If you have any questions, please reach out to us at techquitable@gmail.com. Thank you!

What is your name? *

Email Address: *

LinkedIn URL: *

Why would you like to be a mentor for Techquitable Futures? Please include any prior experience in tutoring/mentoring students, or work with similar programs. (2000 chars max) *

The default expectation for most mentors will be to 1) host the weekly 60min mentorship sessions and 2) co-teach one 60-90min group lesson on a computer science concept over the course of the 10 weeks. Please choose which set of responsibilities you can commit to *

I choose to host both WEEKLY mentorship sessions and a group lesson

I choose to host only host WEEKLY mentorship sessions

I choose to host only a group lesson

If you plan to host mentorship sessions with a fellow, would you like to have a co-mentor (2:1 mentor-fellow) or do you prefer individual (1:1 mentor-fellow)? We offer the co-mentor option to reduce burden and provide different perspectives, but we understand mentors may prefer having autonomy over their sessions.

I would like to mentor individually in 1:1 mentor-fellow sessions.

I would like a co-host to do 2:1 mentor-fellow sessions.

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Topic Preferences: Please rank your topic preferences - 1 as MOST preferred and 10 as LEAST preferred. This will be used for group lesson assignments and balancing co-mentor strengths. For group lessons, please note that although we cannot guarantee your first choice, it is highly unlikely that you will get one of your bottom choices (barring everyone ranking Dynamic Programming as 10!). *

Arrays & Strings

Linked Lists

Stacks & Queues

Graphs & Trees

Recursion

Sorting & Searching

[Optional] Co-mentor preferences: If you would like a co-mentor, please provide any detail on preferences for co-mentor - e.g. gender preference, name of a friend who is also mentoring, someone stronger in a particular topic etc.

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