App Development Mentor (remote, part-time & paying up to $35-40/hr based on experience)

Do you remember that person who made you realize your true potential?

The one who championed you while you traversed the path towards academic or professional success.

Your mentor. Maybe you had one, or even several, if you were very lucky!

Do you want to be that mentor to younger students? Do you have mobile app development, front-end design, UI/UX experience and expertise? Are you interested in learning more about Machine Learning without having to do backend Python programming?

Yes, yes and yes? Great! We have an amazing opportunity for you!

This summer we are collaborating with the MIT RAISE Initiative to host a very exciting 6-week AI program called the 2024 MIT FutureMakers Create-a-Thon! This program, runs from July 1st through August 9th, 2024 and will bring together students from across the US to create a deliberately diverse group of learners, who are developing skills related to applied machine learning, affective computing, app development and entrepreneurship through a virtual program led by mentors.

We would love to have YOU as a mentor to help middle-school and high-school students learn app development skills while you also get the chance to be trained in --- all while getting paid for your efforts!

Your responsibilities will be to:

• As part of a two-mentor team, you will train, support and encourage a small group of eight to ten students as they develop App development skills and AI intuitions using the provided curriculum.
• Day-to-day, interact with your group of trainees through daily meetings.
• Help them use those skills to build a larger project to complete the program.
• Keep your group accountable for finishing their prior day's tasks.
• Help unblock them when they are stuck by pointing them to resources, showing them how to debug code and/or giving them helpful hints to discover the answer on their own.

The curricula for the program will be provided and you will be trained in the AppInventor curriculum and in being an effective mentor.

Requirements for applicants

• Passionate about teaching and mentoring younger students; especially invested in mentoring students from backgrounds under-represented in science and technology;
• Currently enrolled or recent graduates from Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related fields;
• Or have current/recent experience with middle school STEM teaching;
• Excellent communication, time-management and teamwork skills.

• Experience with front-end design, app design, and/or UI/UX development;
• Experience with AppInventor, Scratch or other block-based programming
• Willing and able to commit to 10-12 hours per week from July 1st to Aug 9th.
• Willing and able to commit to 3 hours per day (EST) for 6 days in May-June for being trained in the AppInventor curriculum.

Benefits

• You will deepen your technical skills (look up 'protege effect')
• Work on exciting, challenging and incredibly rewarding work critical to the future of ethical AI
• Build up your CV with fantastic leadership and team management experience
• Get trained in mentorship and professional skills, including communication, self-branding, entrepreneurship, equitable leadership, and more
• Attend technical skills talks by industry professionals
• Be an integral part of an impactful movement towards opportunity, equity and representation
• Valuable networking opportunities with industry leaders within enterprise, tech and academia

It is a win-win for you and your trainees. Apply today!

If you're excited about being a mentor but are hesitating about the requirements, go ahead and apply anyway - we'd love to hear from you!

Diverse minds building diverse technology is mission. We would love to see a wide variety of candidates presenting their unique perspectives, experiences, and skills. We are an equal opportunity employer and highly value diversity. SureStart does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Keywords for this job: app development, mobile app development, frontend design, HCI, human computer interaction, UI design, UX design, training, mentorship, MOOC, online training, data science jobs, machine learning jobs, machine vision, affective computing, emotion AI, Natural Language Processing, NLP, internships, interns, co-ops, speech recognition, tts, speech synthesis, image processing, HCI, human computer interaction, Python, Tensorflow, Keras, PyTorch, data scientist.

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