CST 361S Technology Tutors

Update your learning journal from what you experienced this week with class/with your community partner.

How many hours have you competed to date? 

I have the full 30 hours completed as of today. This week, we had a new shipment of Chromebooks, we received. There was a lot of them this time. We looked over them for minor physical repairs that could be done, then they would be repaired, and checked again to see if they work. 

I talked with another student who was there for the Summer. He said that he was going to volunteer every day and do his data science homework at night. In response to why he thinks Hispanics and African-Americans don't major in CS, he thinks it could be because of the lack of exposure to it as a field. His response was similar to what I thought. We didn't have much exposure to different careers in school. We did have college recruiters have small talks to us in the library. Few students went to those. Career talks and presentations would have been more useful to me. 

I think that career days are great and all, but in-person shadowing would be more useful to see what a person does day-to-day. A benefit is that the student can see in person what the worker is doing day-to-day if they shadow for an extended period of time, like one week. A drawback is that there can be proprietary code that can't be seen by non-workers and students can't really miss that much school during the school year. A good alternative is for a school to set up a shadowing program with companies who agree to have a student shadow one of their kindest and most accommodating workers for a week during the summer. Then the next student would go the next week and so on. When I shadowed in the Emergency Department in order to learn more about the medical field, the doctors would occasionally explain a topic in simple terms after seeing the patient together in order for me to learn and be inspired to also work in the medical field.