Tag: Mentoring
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Summer 2018 Internships for High Schoolers
Over the holidays, a local high school junior student said, “Uncle, I am interested in the SparkSIP internship“. I am always glad to hear the interest to do internships from high school students. I was however surprised to hear this ask because we had not even started the discussion at our advisory board for SparkSIP.…
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DI2018-Week2 Recap – Team Name and first Task Challenge
We had our Week2 meet on Oct 21st with 4 kids in attendance. My goal was to cover the following: Warm up: Pick 2 items each and tell a story using the same. Sharing: Build on each other’s choice item and create a shared story. Learning: Task Based Challenge to learn about planning, implementation, and…
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Mentoring and Coaching month 1
In the summer, one of our friends asked me if I can coach a student interested in Computer Science. Given that I already volunteer with Spark SIP connecting high school students with internships, I said Yes. A few weeks rolled by and then I was introduced to the student. I had a few ideas on projects the…