HackTechGO-2018
Increase diversity in IT by providing IT courses, projects and mentoring to people with minority background.
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Meet the team
| Image | Name | @github | Role | Working on |
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| - | Adam Sobol | - | Full Stack Developer/Entrepreneur/Mentor | HackTechGo! 2018 |
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Alizamin Jafarli | @AlizaminJ | Project leader, Mentor | HackTechGo! 2018 |
| - | Anastasiia Filchenko | - | Developer/Mentor in Python | HackTechGo! 2018 |
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Geir Arne Hjelle | @gahjelle | Developer/Mentor in Python | HackTechGo! 2018 |
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Patrick Merlot | @patechoc | Developer/Mentor in Python | HackTechGo! 2018 |
| - | Simen Fossness | - | Developer/Mentor in ReactJS | HackTechGo! 2018 |
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What Are We Doing?
This project is about mentoring young adults originating from minority background to build confidence through courses and projects in IT. Check the program of this semester: http://dataforgood.no/HackTechGO-2018/program_2018/
Performance goal
We will help our students:
- Learn web-development which is a good starting point into IT-world
- Get hired or start their own business in IT-sector
Time goal
The project started Sept. 5th 2018 and ends Dec. 5th 2018.Projects & teaching sessions are held twice a week, 3 hours per session. Teachers with domain-knowledge are needed to cover the various topics.
Material/ infrastructure resources
Students come with their own PC. Otherwise JobbX provides computers to them. The training sessions are held at JobbX’s office (Storgata 25, Oslo) with all equipments and cookies 🍪
Competing Project Goals
None
Objectives
- Teach programming languages for web-development to our target group
- Give them visible skills - help them build web-developer profile
- Help them build something - fun through projects
Impact
Help reduce inequality in employment and education.