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# Kyle Burns Interview
### May 16, 2020
**Course:** iOS
**University:** San Jose State University
### Personal Questions
*Tell me about yourself.*
- Have been doing swift before. 
- rising seinor sjsu self tought swift 

*Why do you want to apply as a Tech Fellow?*
- Found himself helping students with storyboards. He was like a second help for students. 
- He would explain some parts of the labs. 
- helped tf and students with storyboards, also presented flix labs prevoius tf recomended him

*What skills do you have that makes you a good fit? Prior experiences?*
- Teaching people. 
- multiple dev languages very aproachaboe likes helping, presentation skills

*What does it take to build a good community in the classroom?*
- Get class involved in activities. Ice breaker activities to help getting to know everyone. Pairing students with others who they have never met before. 
- understanding intrests geting to know the students (icebreakers) working with new people in labs to get to know everyone 

*What are your apprehensions or which areas you believe needs improvement & support.*
- Constraints (iOS), teaching online (he prefers teaching online). It's easier doing in-person because it's easier to guide students. With zoom it's a bit hard to present and help students go through the lab. 
- constraints, remote options - perfers in  because you can take contol of the mouse and do one on ones 

*In what areas would you like CodePath to help you improve on?*
- Constraints, animations 
- constraints, animations


### 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.

- clean slides good explinations 

* **Additional notes:** Not so much text on the slides, which motivates students to pay attention.
* **Verdict:** Pass

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