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title: Amber Handal Interview

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# Amber Handal Interview

**Date: 19 June 2021** 
**Course:** iOS/Cyber/Android
**University: University of Florida - Gainesville**
**Email: ambahjh@gmail.com** 

### Personal Questions
*Tell me about yourself.*
- 3rd year cs major 
    - Minor in Buiness admin
- Working on an appp with a friend
- Interest in teaching in the future
- Play tennis

*Why do you want to apply as a Tech Fellow?*
- really interested in teaching 
    - future I want to teach as a professor
- Want to find out if I want to teach
- After training course I will gain confidence

*What skills do you have that would contribute as a Tech Fellow? Prior experiences?*
- Profeccient in c++
- Taking course on udemy 

*What does it take to build a good community in the classroom?*
- The realtionships between students is good
- relationship between students to TF should be great
- provide enough help so students can solve problems themsleves


*What skills do you want to build/improve on? (technical/non-technical)*
- Take teaching to the next level
- Taking swift to the next level

*How was the TF application process? Would you make any changes to improve it?*
- Straight foward process
- Vic really helped with communication
- Hard time getting into the application portal
    - need to add link to website

*What would you improve in CodePath?*
- Havent taken a course at codepath yet 
    - heard about codepath at acm
- How are students going to communicate with me as a techfellow!


### 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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