GitHub Externship - Winter Cohort: Midterm Evaluatioin

Описание: Since 2016, The Palisadoes Foundation has been assisting STEM students to become globally competitive in software engineering. Palisadoes does this by providing new avenues to promote STEM education for university students in under-served communities. The Foundation uses a series of programs aimed at creating increased awareness of their abilities in the global marketplace.

The Palisadoes Foundation was selected as a participant in the 2022 GitHub Externship program run by GitHub India.

GitHub India was created in 2020 to support the third-largest number of active developers on GitHub that was growing 22 percent annually. GitHub supports 73+ million software developers, 4+ million organizations, 200+ million software repositories and is used by 84% of the Fortune 100.

The GitHub Externship is a 90-day fellowship program for third or pre-final year students of GitHub India’s Campus Partner schools. The initiative provides hands-on, collaborative, remote learning with practical experience under the guidance of expert mentors.

Students get to select from a vast variety of Open Source projects managed by various organizations. They get paired with a mentor from participating organizations who will handhold them and review their work on a regular basis.

This is a recording of the mid-term evaluation by our three student participants.

1) Patibanda Sriram - Working on chat support on the Talawa Mobile app

2) Nishnata Debnath - Working on chat support on the Talawa-API backend

3) Sandeep Valpasani - Working on improving our CI/CD workflows and automated testing strategy

Let’s see what they have done.