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# John Jackobson Interview
### 9/28/2020
**Course:** iOS
**University:** City of College of New York
### Personal Questions
*Tell me about yourself.*
- Majoring in Computer Science, was always interested in video games, would love to create one, but got really drawn towards web development
- second year
- did the MAD course back in February and is currently enrolled in remote iOS course
- learned to really love app development 

*Why do you want to apply as a Tech Fellow?*
- Likes teaching and helping his friends learn coding
- a lot of his friends want to learn useful skills and don't know where to start

*What skills do you have that would contribute as a Tech Fellow? Prior experiences?*
- Hosted a React workshop with JS before (2-3 hours), threw in JS basics then went into React
- has a lot of patience and finds that to be a really great skill
- Had a prior internship for 2 months with a startup local to him, barely worked on Codebase bc it was difficult to setup the environment

*What does it take to build a good community in the classroom?*
- Communication outside of the classroom like a Slack is a good place to start. 
- Saw that events like the prework party was an awesome way to bring people together
- Best to bring people together when they're struggling

*What skills do you want to build/improve on? (technical/non-technical)*
- He would like to get better at iOS development in general
- Public speaking is a big motivation for him, gets really nervous and anxious when he did a workshop once but got better as he went through it
- Wants to get better at elaborating his thoughts so get better to get other people to understand what he means

*How was the TF application process? Would you make any changes to improve it?*
- Kind of confusing, felt like he did 3 applications
    - scholarship application
    - tf application 
    - something else maybe he is not sure, did an interest form then the actual application
- just a lot of forms, but felt it was easy overall



### 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

ASK TF IF ANY QUESTIONS?

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