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# Ethan Nguyen Bi-weekly Check in (1st Round)

## Basics
- UCI Student
    - last quarter was not official TF, but took role of one 
    - Personal reward from teaching people - a little awkward because no dashboard access so had to communicate with a middleman 
        - wasn't too bad at all 
    - no one ever felt out of the loop - everyone was on the same page
- About to be a 2nd year
    - took class 2 quarters ago

## Lab/Tools/Resources Feedback

- What do you think about the training? (I.e. slow, fast, just right, hard, easy)
    - Not Applicable as he does not really attend training just shows up for attendance

- What do you think about having separate trainings one for those who never took the iOS  course before and one for those who already took the iOS course?

Note

- What do you think of changing our 7am lab to 8am?
    - This question is only relevant to the students 

- How can we improve the labs
    - official codepath documentation could be improved 
    - UCI writes their own step by step guides and it works out really well - students really like it

- How can we improve the assignments 
    - assignments biggest issue is that there is a lot outdated things even when you follow guides step by step
    - update all assignments
        - universal error plan, update every semeester 

- Have you checked out our portals (i.e. task tracker setting up organizer dashboard, course portal, discusssion space, notion space). Any Feedback?
    - Having a Guru (Memo) as direct point of contact makes it easier to navigate
    - has not interacted with the Notion we made for TFs during training - at first glance sees its a good way to organize links

## How Familiar are you with CodePath

- Who do you know from CodePath? 

Note

- How well do you know the team structure of CodePath? (i.e. who to contact for what issue)
    - Already TFs when he took class, those TFs kept teaching next quarter, TFs he was working with already knew to be in contact with Daphne
    - Mainly knew could just contact Daphne in the past but overall does not really 

PRESENT THEM TO OUR [CODEPATH TEAM](https://www.notion.so/ioscodepath/b663da4697b24cc2a4434f25f551d237?v=5eb7eb84e6ed4407b1c8485241666b48)


## Get to know each other

- Ambitions
    - wants to be in SWE - interested in Fintech
    - MBA after doing SWE job - thinks startups are super sick 

## Questions / Concerns 