Make a Difference. Mentor.

We’re building a community of mentors who are passionate about sharing knowledge, experience, and guidance with the next generation of engineers. Choose between a Global Student Community (GSC) mentor and a individual mentor!

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What Do Serverless Mentors Do?

With our Serverless camp, you'll be able to contribute to our fully open-source curriculum, build interactive and value-driven educational experiences for the Global Student Community (GSC), and create a new model for non-traditional education in tech.


As a mentor, you'll be able host tech talks and workshops during our Serverless camp, meet with the Bit Project team before, during, and after the camp for feedback, and help us build a community of mentors who are passionate about sharing knowledge, experience, and guidance with the next generation of engineers.

Global Student Community Track

  • Engage in technical and/or interest-based conversations [on Discord] in communication channels
  • Lead a weekly AMA/discussion on curriculum-based topic links to resources for students to learn more (text based)
  • Contribute to answering curriculum-based questions on the Forum.

Individual Track

  • Meet with assigned student 1:1 at least once a week to discuss the following points:
  • Weeks 1-4: discuss weekly lesson topics, answer conceptual questions, provide context on how topics are used in industry (”real world” applications)
  • Weeks 5-8: guide student in their final project, help with planning, design, debugging, etc.
  • Throughout: career advice, interview prep, anything else you want!
  • Actively check communication channel to schedule meetings with student and provide async help.

Requirements

  • Knowledge of tech industry & familiarity with:

    • Serverless technology, especially Azure Portal and VS Code Azure extension

    • Azure use cases (e.g. , Function Apps, Logic Apps, etc.)

    • Basic web dev (frontend and backend)

    • Experience with NodeJS, HTML/CSS, NoSQL

    • Working with APIs & reading documentation

  • Willing to commit 1-3 hours per week during program

  • Commit to completing course (assignments not required, but mentors must at least look through curriculum & solutions) before course start date

  • Excitement about tech and eagerness to help future engineers!

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Still not convinced? As a mentor you will:

  • Expand your network by connecting with likeminded individuals

  • Learn from students and other mentors with different perspectives

  • Develop your communication and leadership skills

  • Gain confidence in your technical and interpersonal skillset

  • Get a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment by directly helping aspiring engineers

Apply to Mentor!