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Post-Mortem

9.4/10 average rating. Not bad.

Things we did well:

  • Energizers
  • "Freedom within structure"
    • Better in this cohort than the previous one.

Things we didn't do as well at:

  • Wasn't always clear why we needed feedback when we asked for it
    • Perhaps do less feedback forms?
  • Changing mindset
  • Building community between participants
  • One hacker was still on Scratch by the last day
  • Personal notes
    • We can't review what we did and say what we did wrong with mindset
  • Very strong separation between "coding time" and "other time"

To review our objective:

The objective of the second cohort is to only do the first part of the Hack Camp objective: creating the experience. Our goal is to create an experience that brings people from no coding knowledge to having the ability, motivation, and confidence to create coding projects and continue learning new coding concepts with others, without the explicit urging or leading of a teacher.

We should be taking personal notes on what we're doing and how we're doing it at this stage, but we shouldn't be creating documentation for others to reproduce our work yet.

We want every participant to leave having the ability, motivation, and confidence to create coding projects and continue learning new coding concepts with others, without the explicit urging or leading of a teacher.

Let's go student by student and see if we met this objective for each student.

Did they meet the objective?

  • SS
    • Ability
    • Motivation
    • Confidence
  • HC
    • Ability
    • Motivation
    • Confidence
    • Notes
      • Very enthusiastic, but they probably won't continue writing code independently without urging
  • EZ
    • Ability
    • Motivation
    • Confidence
    • Notes
      • Writing code seemed to feel like a chore
  • ML
    • Ability
    • Motivation
    • Confidence
    • Notes
      • Didn't have the belief that they could learn something new/learn a new coding language
      • Writing code seemed to feel like a chore
      • Stayed on Scratch the entire time
  • SF
    • Ability
    • Motivation
    • Confidence
    • Notes
      • Had the confidence when working with an instructor, not when with peers