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Project-based Learning

These projects help students become engaged in real-life work situations. The student is provided guidance to help them work through designing and building their solutions. A good mentor does not provide the answers to the problem; rather, they help the student get unstuck and provide them some direction to help them move through the project while being challenged, but having someone catch your back to help you grow.

Code Reviews

Code Reviews enable the student to communicate with their mentor by checking in their project code into a GitHub repository and requesting for the mentor review an issue they are facing. The mentor can then respond through the repository by providing comments from their code review.

The community slack channel is a place to ask questions and receive feedback from our mentoring team.

The private slack channel is a dedicated place where students can get more expedited help with asking questions, getting help, and requesting project reviews.

Office hours are a place where students can schedule time to meet with a mentor to discuss an issue on a project. Usually, this occurs if a problem can’t be solved through a Code Review and/or Slack Message.

Each student has a reoccurring monthly meeting with their mentor to discuss project work and agree on a schedule to complete the work. Just like a work manager or a team leader, your mentor will expect frequent updates in your project’s Jira. Jira will be set up to send out notifications and reminders around due dates.

Your 1-on-1 meeting is meant to give the student and mentor an opportunity to discuss the student’s progress, provide feedback, and provide a safe place for the student to ask questions. This meeting is normally scheduled in conjunction with the Monthly Planning Session.

After a student completes the projects for an area, they will be evaluated to ensure the student has mastered the material or provide the student with the necessary help to fill any knowledge gaps.

These meetings provide a closer relationship between the student and the mentor, which closely reflects how real world engineering teams operate through weekly agile sprint planning.