Volunteers at The Collab Lab!

These folks are professional engineers who spent 8 weeks leading teams of early-career engineers through building an app on a software development team, hosting 1-hour weekly synchronous meetings each weekend, holding office hours to assist developers, participating in code reviews, and presenting learning modules.

Commitment: ~5 hours/week for 10 weeks

Each quarter, we ran Career Lab, a 2-week extension on the core Collab Lab project where our Collabies got the opportunity to optimize their Linkedin and practice mock job fit and technical with folks who are interviewing engineers every day in their respective roles. These folks took time to coach our Collabies through the job hunt and interview process.

Commitment: ~5 hours per week for 2 weeks

Behind the scenes of The Collab Lab, our Automation Heroes built automations to help us be more efficient in doing the work to keep the lights on for our programs. They wrote scripts to automate team setup, ensure all the teams' projects were up to date, and maintained our website with Hygraph, Astro, and Netlify.

These folks kept our community engaged and growing! They organized and hosted our Tech Talk series, managed our social media, and kept our internal channels poppin’ with fun and helpful events and conversations.

Prerequisite: Due to the nature of this role, we required Community Managers to have participated as either a mentor or developer on a project team.

At the Collab Lab, we dedicated ourselves to creating and maintaining an inclusive and psychologically safe space for everyone in our community to learn and grow in. Our Code of Conduct responders were professionally trained to ensure everyone in our community upheld the commitment to our Code of Conduct.

Prerequisite: Due to the nature of this role, we required Code of Conduct Responders to have participated as either a mentor or developer on a project team.