WWCD Mentorship Program 3.0 Week 1

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Women Who Code Delhi initiated ‘The Mentorship Program’ as a platform to connect undergraduate women in STEM fields to women leader in technology with an objective of furthering their professional development, expanding their professional network and gaining support in the field and their workplace.

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My Journey

After Spotting the latest tweet by Women Who Code releasing the forms for Mentorship Program 3.0 and applying for the same.

Women Who Code Delhi Twitter handle

I am thrilled to be sharing that I got the onboarding letter as mentee in Mentorship Program 3.0. The selection of girls happened amongst 800 and only 49 of them got selected.

I am so grateful for this golden opportunity offered by Women Who Code to connect with one to the greatest Mentors who are leaders in the professional technology and helping in expanding the horizon of others.

Our sessions started with Welcome and introduction to WWCD community, by Akansha Tanwar. She briefed us about our 5 week journey and told us about her journey and to get the best out for ourselves.

After the session we got the mails from our respective mentors. My Mentor was Urvi Goel she is a pre-final year Computer Science student at IGDTUW. She was a 2020 summer intern at Microsoft IDC and has a returning offer from the same for 2021 summers. She was a part of mentorship program 2.0 last year as a mentee which helped her in clearing doubts and finding the right direction to her efforts.

Week 1 :

On the first meeting we were told about the agenda of the Week 1

To Understand what a mentee seeks through the initiative, and sharing that with their mentors to help them channelize what they have to offer.

• We shared our informal instructions with our mentor so she could get to know us better
• Our knowledge in STEM field, competitive coding, Projects, etc…
• Our short term and Long term goals

After giving her a brief idea about our work and expectations we were assigned tasks accordingly which will be improved upon as we go. So in my team our major focus was kept upon ` Summer Internships` and ` how we can work about it`.

Tasks:

• Profile Building
• Work Division: List of Hackathons, Open Source Opportunities & Scholarships, Off-Campus Opportunities

Few of the Questionaries/Tips asked during the week:

• Coding Platform Suggestions: Leetcode, Codeforces, Codechef
• Importance of Project Vs DS Algo
• Open Source Opportunities
• Profile Building: Importance of About Section and LinkedIn Account

List Of Open Source Opportunities :

1. GSOC: Google Summer of Code is a global program focused on bringing more student developers into open source software development. Students work with an open source organization on a 10 week programming project during their break from school.

Google Summer of Code

2. Outreachy: Outreachy provides 3 months full time paid internships to work in Free and Open Source Software(FOSS). Targets for beginners in underrepresented groups.Hosted twice a year.

Outreachy | Internships Supporting Diversity in Tech

3. GGSOC: GirlScript Summer of Code is the 3 month Long Open Source program during summer conducted by GirlScript Foundation, registered by Government of India.

4. MLH fellowship: The MLH Fellowship is a 12-week internship alternative for aspiring software engineers. Our programs pair fun, educational curriculum with practical experience that you can put on your resume right away. It’s collaborative, remote, and happens under the guidance of expert mentors.

MLH Fellowship | Learn by Doing.

Few Requirements for Contributing in Open Source:

1. Be Familiar with Github
2. Contribute to existing Open Source projects by fixing bugs tracked as issues
3. Try building modular alternatives to bigger open source projects by improvising on existing features
4. Create your own open source project
5. Join the community(mailing list)

List Of Scholarship Program:

1. Google Women TechMakers: Through the Women Techmakers Scholars Program — formerly the Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship Program — Google is furthering Dr. Anita Borg’s vision of creating gender equality in the field of computer science by encouraging women to excel in computing and technology and become active leaders and role models in the same.You can check out the application process here.
2. Adobe Women in Tech Scholar: Adobe India Women-in-Technology Scholarship, we are striving towards creating gender equality in science, technology and engineering domains by encouraging women to showcase their excellence in computing and technology and become future leaders and role models in the field. For more info check out their site.
3. GSOC Systers: Systers is a community for all women involved in the technical aspects of computing. Having over 7,000 members from more than 65 countries around the world. Welcoming the participation of women technologists of all ages at any stage of their studies or careers.For more info check out the site.
4. Grace Hopper Scholarship by Anita Borg: To welcome undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty who could not otherwise attend the Celebration, AnitaB.org is providing a limited number of scholarships that include complimentary registration to Virtual Grace Hopper Celebration 2021 (vGHC 21) and other benefits.For more info check out the site .
5. Google STEP Internship: The Student Training in Engineering Program (STEP) aims to do just that. The 12 week program offers students the opportunity to work on a software project alongside another STEP intern, with the support of full-time Googlers and a mentor. You will also attend trainings to enhance your technical and professional skills.

P.S.:You may Also check out the list for List of Hackathons, Off-Campus Opportunities by my fellow mentees.