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# Alexa Tang Interview
### 6/17/2021
**Course:** Cyber
**University:** California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

### Personal Questions
*Tell me about yourself.*
- Incoming senior
- Taken 6 week cyber course

*Why do you want to apply as a Tech Fellow?*
- Learn a lot better when Alexa explains things to another
    - Previous experience, loves teaching technical concepts

*What skills do you have that would contribute as a Tech Fellow? Prior experiences?*
- Note

*What does it take to build a good community in the classroom?*
- Putting yourself in their shoes
- Students asking questions to teacher and other students
- 6 week course experience
    - Likes the slides
    - Awkward 1 hr of lab work

*What skills do you want to build/improve on? (technical/non-technical)*
- Communicate efficiently with people
    - Develop different tiers of explanations
- Technical skills
    - Better understanding of Burpsuite
    - Know what questions to ask

*How was the TF application process? Would you make any changes to improve it?*
- None

*What would you improve in CodePath?*
- Loves slack community
- Loves quick response time


### 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:**
    * Clear, audible voice
    * Encoding
    * Loves the analogies (encoding is similar to language syntax)
* **Verdict:** Pass

### 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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