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# Halli Lacanlale Interview

**Date:18 June 2021** 
**Course:** iOS/Cyber/Android
**University: University of Illinois at Chicago**
**Email: hlacan2@uic.edu** 

### Personal Questions
*Tell me about yourself.*
- Majoring computer sceince
    - Minor in mathematics 
        - Concentration is software engineering
- TA'ed for Breakthroughtech Chicago that helps make compuiter sceince avauilable for underrepesented
- TA for a free course

*Why do you want to apply as a Tech Fellow?*
- Enjoy learning how people think
- Took the couyrse for Codepath iOS mobile development 
    - Grew alot
        - Want to futher solidufy my grasp in mobile development and see other people grow

*What skills do you have that would contribute as a Tech Fellow? Prior experiences?*
- TAed for previous introcudtory classes
    - Employed Patience 
        - Learned how people communicate when teaching different types of people

*What does it take to build a good community in the classroom?*
- Consider how students best learn 
    - Provide different ways of learning 
- Welcome mistakes as they learn(PART OF LEARNING PROCESS)
- Gread students based on effort(seeing if there is an improvement)

*What skills do you want to build/improve on? (technical/non-technical)*
- Learn more programming languages
    - Help more students and be more credible
- Communication
    - Being able to express what I would want to say clearly and cocisly 

*How was the TF application process? Would you make any changes to improve it?*
- I liked that pre-work was not given specifc steps on how to make the optional features
    - Allows more creativity among the applicants 
    - shows how much the applicant know 
    - Or how much applicants research to improve thoer applications

*What would you improve in CodePath?*
- Grading
    - Stuidents have different learning prefrences 
        - eg tests or projects 
            - Grades get updated in a way that it wpupd emphasise the improvement from the begining to the end
                - eg recognising imporvement and effort
    - aActivitiies for visual, spactial and etc learners 
        - Oral exam , creating a mobile app and programning assesment


### Live Demo 
Applicants should present their favorite tool that they used from the previous course that they've taken with. This should be presented through slides.

* **Additional notes:**
* **Verdict:** Pass/Fail

### Tech Fellow Covid Grant

Grant of `$599` sent directly to tech fellows via PayPal. All Tech Fellows can apply (for-credit, non-credit, returning, new, etc.). To qualify, TFs must:

* Write an essay about COVID + CodePath community-building
* Attend + Participate 9-week leadership training
* Recruit minimum of 15 students (Admitted status)

Application Opens: tba
Application Deadline: tba


ASK TF IF ANY QUESTIONS?

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