aweary / mentorship-program

A working draft of a mentorship program for underrepresented groups in tech.

mentorship-program

The goal of this mentorship is to provide a tight-knit, responsive community for a rotating set of people who are underrepreseted in the tech world. This is an extension of the typical mentor/mentee programs, adopting the "it takes a village" approach to education and guidance.

Outline

• The program will be hosted on a private Discord channel
• The Discord channel will have a set of rooms for different topics (JavaScript, HTML, CSS, React, Ember, etc.)
• There will be a limited number of mentees to keep the program focused and manageable
• Mentees will be tentative invited for a predetermined amount of time (3-6 months maybe)
  • This will allow more people access to mentorship without making it unmanageable for the mentors
  • Progress can be reevaluated at the end of this rotational period, potentially alowing back-to-back rotations
• Mentees will be asked a set of basic questions before being invited, just to ensure that they'll actually get the most out of it
  • for example, if someone wants to learn Swift and we have no Swift mentors, it might not be the right fit for now