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Volunteers needed to teach web dev in NYC and Bay Area
Hi HN! ScriptEd (www.scripted.org) is looking for volunteers to teach twice a week from September until June, to students attending under-resourced high schools. This is a great way to give back, volunteer in your community, and network with like-minded individuals. Volunteers teach as part of a four-person team, with support from ScriptEd staff. Apply at bit.ly/ScriptEdVolunteerNYC or bit.ly/ScriptEdSFBAYvolunteer for San Fransisco and Oakland.
- rashkov 9y agoStarted volunteering with ScriptEd a few weeks ago and really enjoying it. The support from the organization is great, the curriculum is made for you, and the students themselves have been a pleasure to work with
- ewong 9y agoWe love to hear this! Hope your school year goes really well!
- toephu2 9y agoThe last thing the Bay Area needs is more web devs flooding the market. Coding bootcamps have already done enough damage.
- bcherny 9y agoCare to explain what you mean?
- wavefunction 9y agoOP is obviously concerned about competing with these web devs. I'd have more faith in yourself OP!
- toephu2 9y agoObviously? No, don't have so much faith in your ability to read other people on the internet. I am not a web dev. I was in a previous life (years before bootcamps even existed).
- tarboreus 9y agoSounds pretty self-evident to me.
- jlgaddis 9y agoIf you feel your career is being threatened by high school students, perhaps you should consider "stepping up your game"?
- toephu2 9y agoMaybe you read too much into my statement, I am not a web dev. I was in a previous life (years before bootcamps even existed).
- infecto 9y agoWhile I tend to agree on the bootcamp side I would disagree in context of this post. This is teaching students in high school . I am guessing their aim is to get kids interested in CS where no courses exists in their school system. I don't think there will be a flood of kids hitting the market based on volunteering here.
- yellowapple 9y agoMy impression was that the demand for web devs (especially in the Bay Area) is still outstripping the supply. Maybe that's starting to change.
- mtaylor 9y agoThere is something to be said for exposing these high school students to some of the technology that runs their lives, and giving them the opportunity to learn something they would otherwise not have, regardless of whether they choose to pursue it as a career.
- BeccaScriptEd 9y agoAll of the above, AND - I think our community of staff, volunteers, etc. are thinking more along the lines of Toni Morrison.. "I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.'"
- raulgil90 9y agoHad my first volunteering session today and it was amazing to see the look on the students' faces when we showed them what anyone can do with a browser inspector! Anyone who knows how to code should volunteer and help train the future workforce!
- devopsproject 9y agoThis is a shill account. Created about the same time as the post and the language and punctuation feel more like marketing copy. Nice try though
- ewong 9y agolol Raul is one of our volunteers... We just told everyone that we posted on Hacker News today. He's real and his class just recently started, but glad his comment is so awesome that you think it's fake!
- devopsproject 9y agothis shilling is really disgusting
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- devopsproject 9y ago
- wgyn 9y agoMission Bit is an organization doing this on a local scale in SF: https://www.missionbit.com/ https://www.missionbit.com/. It looks like the main difference is that Mission Bit works directly with SF public schools. Personally, it feels like there is plenty more space for non-profits reaching out to underserved communities.
- ianmclaury 9y agoI'm sure there are other organizational differences, but ScriptEd also works directly with public schools.
- ewong 9y agoWe agree that Mission Bit does great work too! But yeah, we also work directly with SF and Oakland public schools, just not the same ones. Another thing that makes us different is that we focus on preparing our students for paid internships in high schools. Sounds like we agree that more students should access CS education.
- mtaylor 9y agoThis will be my fifth year volunteering with ScriptEd! There's nothing quite like teaching others to solidify your own understanding, and nothing as rewarding as seeing the light go on when one of my students grasps a concept. I strongly encourage devs to volunteer!
- glossybrown 9y agoAs a fourth-year returning volunteer, I strongly agree with all of this!
- j4pe 9y agoSeems promising! I've been looking for opportunities like this. More information would be helpful, specifically: * What does the time commitment look like? My work won't allow me to spend two full school days out of the office every week, but I can probably get away with teaching in the morning and starting late. * What are your curriculum resources? Teaching scratch/pygame is a different story from trying to ram a CS101-style course into high schoolers' brains.
- ewong 9y agoHaha, I don't think many employers would be too happy about two full school days out of the office every week. We generally have volunteers teach in the morning or in the afternoon. It depends on school sites, but it's a total of 2-3 hours per week in the classroom. Apply at the link and we can tell you what's available and see if something works! You can check out our curriculum here: https://github.com/ScriptEdcurriculum/curriculum17-18 https://github.com/ScriptEdcurriculum/curriculum17-18 Hope that helps!
- j4pe 9y agoThanks for the info! Much appreciated.
- citurbe 9y agoI teach twice a week from 8:15 - 9:15 - I'm not even late to work! Curriculum is pretty intro - basic html and css, jquery, then some beginning javascript.
- sluggg 9y agoI am attempting to apply for the SF area. I thought that the url did not include "volunteer" at the end b/c the NYC link did not and it took me to a "daily session landing page" ScriptEd google doc that I could edit. Odd. Y'all should fix that.
- BeccaScriptEd 9y agoThanks for pointing that out - we've changed the editing rights!
- ewong 9y agowe use a lot of bitly links... you found something that we use for our classes! The NY and SFBay bitly links don't have the same naming convention. This is what you are looking for: bit.ly/ScriptEdSFBAYvolunteer
- DrScump 9y agowe use a lot of bitly links Why, exactly? This isn't exactly Twitter 2015.
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- grayhatter 9y agoLet me know when you need volunteers to teach something other than web-development. C, Python, hardware.
- BeccaScriptEd 9y agoHey - sure thing! If you send us an e-mail at info@scripted.org we can make sure you're on our mailing list. In the meantime, I'd recommend checking out organizations like TEALS ( https://www.tealsk12.org/ https://www.tealsk12.org/ ) - I believe they teach python in some of their courses, and they're in many cities.
- talindras 9y agoIs ScriptEd paid / sponsored, or is the company all volunteers? If the former, it's disingenuous of them to ask for volunteers.
- ewong 9y agoI'm not sure that I fully understand the question, but students participate in the class free of charge. It is offered either as an elective or afterschool club. ScriptEd has staff that helps manage logistics and other operational needs, but the volunteers teach the class with support from ScriptEd staff. Hope that answers what you are asking!
- devopsproject 9y agoHow are you making money?
- ewong 9y agoWe're a nonprofit, so our goal isn't really to make money. But we apply for grants and receive donations like most nonprofits!
- SilasX 9y agoSent in an application today and will talk to them Friday!
- DrScump 9y agoPlease repost the application links as native links and not shrouded by URL shorteners.
- mtaylor 9y agoFor NYC: http://scripted.force.com/volunteerintake http://scripted.force.com/volunteerintake For SF Bay Area: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfAsGRHAgDsL0WpuqsOu1zD0kuLiKVwIWAE3i0NsgNLXHIXZg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfAsGRHAgDsL0WpuqsO...
- lostdog 9y agoDo you require finger printing in order to volunteer?
- BeccaScriptEd 9y agoHi! Yes we do - in compliance with school district policy, we require all volunteers complete a fingerprinting and background check process.