VOLUNTEERS: Railsbridge Workshop for Women: Beginner Level

Ruby on Rails Outreach Workshop for Women

When:

Installfest: Friday, March 8, 6pm

Workshop: Saturday, March 9, 9am

Afterparty for volunteers: Saturday, March 9, ~5:00pm

Where:

CoMerge

330 A St.

San Diego, CA 92101

Organizers:

Alex Boster, Jessica Hilt and Josh French

Questionnaire:

There is a full questionnaire that volunteers should fill out (https://docs.google.com/a/tilthouse.org/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDlHSmE5OUpWdUJucDh2OVMzd3d6M2c6MA#gid=0).

Description:

This workshop will be in San Diego at CoMerge, 330 A St., San Diego, CA. This is at 4th & A downtown, close to the Civic Center and Fifth Ave. trolley stops and many transit connections.

Got a desire to either help or teach and some RoR knowledge to share? Well, great! We need you!

We're looking for volunteer instructors and TAs, as well as some people to do some light lifting or moving things around and helping with clean up, welcoming and check-ins. Are you a big social networker? Let us know! We also want people posting pics with the hashtag #railsbridge.

The Railsbridge Workshop page recently underwent a big overhaul, and you can now find all your favorite resources here: http://workshops.railsbridge.org/resources-for-teachers/

Highlights: we now have links to materials for the Installfest and the Curriculum, as well as the slides for the teacher training and beginner programming intro presentation that you'll use if you teach a beginner or advanced beginner section.

Teacher Training: None is planned, but stay tuned.

Documenting Glitches: In recent workshops we've identified a Keeper of the Updates to serve as the main repository for documenting glitches and needed updates in the Installfest instructions. If that sounds fun, please let yourself be known.

Here’s the timeline for the day of the workshop:

9:00-9:30 Sign-in/get coffee/make friends 9:30-10:00 Intro Presentation While we're doing the opening presentation, we're going to huddle and split students into classes. Therefore, arriving in advance of this meeting is critical. 10:00-10:50 Session 1 11:00-12:00 Session 2 12:00-1:00 Lunch 1:00-2:15 Session 3 2:30-3:30 Session 4 3:30-4:00 Wrap up & final questions 4:00-4:30 Teacher/TA debrief & cleanup 4:45-??? After party at (probably) Downtown Johnny Brown's Student signup: We are full up this time! Encourage people to stay tuned!

Hope you can join us!