Notes from our fourth mentor Meetup

Thanks to Adaptive Lab for hosting our fourth mentor Meetup in July. The Meetup focused on plans for our after school pilot (which kicks off this month).

At our third Meetup we discussed how to recruit volunteers to run after school clubs, and how to involve educators in the content development process. We agreed it would be good to ask mentors to try to find a teacher or educator friend to come along next time.

This proved a tough call — clearly teachers are hard-working people who can’t always accommodate beers and pizza after work! We’d like to give a special thanks to teacher Katie who made it down (and to Rachel for bringing her).

As well as one teacher, we had 18 mentors attend with a variety of different design backgrounds. Everyone was really enthusiastic about the idea of an after school Design Club.

After Noam presented the plans for the pilot so far, Niki led a workshop about the curriculum, lesson plans and activities. We had a good discussion with frank feedback (starting with “do we really need a curriculum?”), great ideas and tons of positive energy.

Some key points included:

Thank you to everyone who came along — your suggestions have been really useful in helping shape our 10 week course.

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