Hack for LA Internship Project Overview
This project lets high school and college students work at HackforLA.org for a summer!
Learn how to work on an active development and make your CV more competitive!
Give a experience of what it will be like to work on a professional software development team and organization.
Learning to handle varying levels of instruction and supervision from none to tldr. Professional Software development work environments provide varying levels of autonomy; All require you to self manage to deliver your work. There is a heavy emphasis on delivery, making your work part of the larger project. You will learn to create value from the very first day.
- How to get what you need from your team members and deliver what the project requires while managing the politics of perception and persuasion.
- Finding and cultivating peer mentors
- How to advance from a beginner to a productive contributor to a lead.
- How to use Git and GitHub, Branching, etc.
- How work assignments are structured
- How to document your issue (an assignment)
- How to get peer and team leadership reviews (feedback) along the way and why we do frequent check ins to improve quality and speed of deliverables.
- How to present complicated concepts to non developers
- Overview
- Program Details (apply here)
- Requirements
- Who are the Interns
- Benefits of being a mentor
- Dates
- Time Expectations
- Research Plans and Goals
(People making the internship program happen)
- Overview
- Join the Team
- Meet the Team
- Resources for Volunteers
- Cohort 2021 (First cohort)
- Cohort 2022 (second cohort)