Women Who Code Delhi Mentorship Program : Week 1
One day I came across an initiative by Women Who Code Delhi, ‘The Mentorship Program’. It is a 5 week program with an agenda for each week. Each selected mentee will be assigned a mentor. Being a sophomore with companies coming next semester for internships, I was really confused on how to prepare and had some doubts in mind. I thought this will be an amazing opportunity to get all my doubts cleared and thus applied for it. On 17 January 2019, I received a mail that I have been selected as a mentee, my mentor was Paavini Nanda ma’am. I was really excited and happy to have her as my mentor. My happiness had no bounds.
We started with week 1 of the Mentorship program by an introductory hangouts call on 22 January 2019. I had 3 other mentees with me. Firstly all of us introduced ourselves, telling about our goals and our expectations from this program, then each one of us asked our doubts and Paavini ma’am cleared them with utmost patience and all my doubts got cleared. It was an amazing experience interacting with her and other mentees.
At the end of the call we were assigned a task to look for opportunities. Here is a list of opportunities I looked for -
1) Rails Girls Summer of Code- Rails Girls Summer of Code is a global fellowship program for women and non-binary coders aimed at bringing more diversity into Open Source. Selected students are paid a monthly stipend, from July to September, to work on a Open Source project. Working in two-person teams, students are supported by a mentor directly involved with the Open Source project, as well as independent coaches with extensive developer experience.
For more information visit- https://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/
2) Google Summer of Code- Google Summer of Code is a global program focused on introducing students to open source software development. Selected students work on a 3 month programming project with an open source organization.
For more information visit- https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/
3) GirlScript Summer of Code –GirlScript Summer of Code is the 3 month long Open Source program during summers conducted by GirlScript Foundation, started in 2018, with an aim to help beginners get started with Open Source Development while encouraging diversity. Throughout the program, participants contribute to different projects under guidance of experienced mentors. Top participants get exciting goodies and opportunities.
For more information visit — https://www.gssoc.tech/
4) Learn it girl — It is a 3 month program during which each scholar works on a project under the guidance of an experienced mentor.
For more information visit — https://www.learnitgirl.com/
5) Grace Hopper Celebration Scholarship- This is a scholarship to attend Grace hopper celebration.
Student and Faculty Scholarships include:
· Individual Registration for the three day celebration
· Hotel accommodations (arranged by AnitaB.org). Student Scholars will be assigned a roommate. Faculty Scholars will be assigned their own room
· Airfare booked and paid for by AnitaB.org Travel Consultant
· Travel stipend (if used wisely, stipend will cover transportation costs to and from the airport, baggage fees, meals, and other travel incidentals)
For more information visit — https://ghc.anitab.org/2018-student-academic/scholarships/
Week 1 was full of getting to know new people and learning about so many new opportunities. I am really excited and looking forward to the remaining 4 weeks of the mentorship program.
