I have been volunteering on and off in past few years.
Here are the avenues I have had in the past, to share my expertise and skills:-
1) Google summer of code
2) Google Code-in
3) In coppell-ISD schools for Engineering week, Sharktank, Science fair, IBM gigawatt camp e.t.c
4) getMAGIC
I have been volunteering for many other organisations as well like Vibha, AID (Association for India's development), Systers but today I want to talk about the opportunities where I was able to share my technical skills and learn and grow in the process.
My IBM-ISD mentoring sessions have been mostly event based but I totally love to get into the class meet the students in person and get infected by their enthusiasm and innocence.
My GSOC( google summer of code) and GCI (google code in) has been equally enjoyable but in some sense it's been a little different. I don't get to meet my students but we work together like we would in a office setting but we work towards a humanitarian open source project..which is what makes it soo cool! Not only are you mentoring .. your work is actually being used for a good cause!!!
These are time-lined volunteering assignments ( in summer vacation or winter vacation for students) and everything is do-able remotely ( which is super convenient). I love the humanitarian opensource aspect of this soo much that this year I am organizing (actually co-chairing) the Grace Hopper Conference Open Source Day ( GHC-OSD-2016).
My Magic mentor has been a very exquisite one. I got assigned a student in bay area and I started meeting her weekly (remotely over skype or gchat) and we made a personal connection. My assumption were soon shattered since she proved out to be a very mature, tech-savvy, hands-on little lady who did not need the "get-started" links for programming. She already had done a arduino project and this time we wanted to do a more advance complex and artistic project. We went ahead on that journey and how much a learned about this new generation of technology at their tips is incredible!!
I am looking forward to meeting her and helping her with her final presentation on magic project (and I guess I will updated the post once I am done with that)
I highly encourage all of you to consider volunteering your tech skills as a mentor .. it's always an amazing experience. Choose based on the time commitments you can make and your passions and interest .. but do choose one!!
If you're also a woman in tech/STEM, and have considered volunteering, please feel free to ask me and don't hesitate to reach out to me with anything i can help you .. if we share the same passion then also lets get in touch :) would love to hear from you.
Here are the avenues I have had in the past, to share my expertise and skills:-
1) Google summer of code
2) Google Code-in
3) In coppell-ISD schools for Engineering week, Sharktank, Science fair, IBM gigawatt camp e.t.c
4) getMAGIC
I have been volunteering for many other organisations as well like Vibha, AID (Association for India's development), Systers but today I want to talk about the opportunities where I was able to share my technical skills and learn and grow in the process.
My IBM-ISD mentoring sessions have been mostly event based but I totally love to get into the class meet the students in person and get infected by their enthusiasm and innocence.
My GSOC( google summer of code) and GCI (google code in) has been equally enjoyable but in some sense it's been a little different. I don't get to meet my students but we work together like we would in a office setting but we work towards a humanitarian open source project..which is what makes it soo cool! Not only are you mentoring .. your work is actually being used for a good cause!!!
These are time-lined volunteering assignments ( in summer vacation or winter vacation for students) and everything is do-able remotely ( which is super convenient). I love the humanitarian opensource aspect of this soo much that this year I am organizing (actually co-chairing) the Grace Hopper Conference Open Source Day ( GHC-OSD-2016).
My Magic mentor has been a very exquisite one. I got assigned a student in bay area and I started meeting her weekly (remotely over skype or gchat) and we made a personal connection. My assumption were soon shattered since she proved out to be a very mature, tech-savvy, hands-on little lady who did not need the "get-started" links for programming. She already had done a arduino project and this time we wanted to do a more advance complex and artistic project. We went ahead on that journey and how much a learned about this new generation of technology at their tips is incredible!!
I am looking forward to meeting her and helping her with her final presentation on magic project (and I guess I will updated the post once I am done with that)
I highly encourage all of you to consider volunteering your tech skills as a mentor .. it's always an amazing experience. Choose based on the time commitments you can make and your passions and interest .. but do choose one!!
If you're also a woman in tech/STEM, and have considered volunteering, please feel free to ask me and don't hesitate to reach out to me with anything i can help you .. if we share the same passion then also lets get in touch :) would love to hear from you.
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