 Hi everyone. Thanks all for coming. I hope on your way and you manage to get some food or drinks from the bag If not, please help yourself. I think there's some left. Can everyone hear me? Can right? Okay, can So welcome to the tech ladies bootcamp information session. My name is Huimin. I'm one of the organizers for the bootcamp this time around So here's what we're gonna do tonight Okay, so Ten minutes late What we're gonna do is we're gonna start by telling you a little bit about what we do at tech ladies What we do what we are and all that stuff and then we're gonna move on to talk a bit about the bootcamp application Process we're gonna introduce the two NGOs that we are helping as well as the coaches and the designers that will be helping this time round we'll then move on to Do a little bit of mingling will save some time at the end for that. Okay Great. So first we like to thank all of our sponsors For helping us keep our tech ladies events affordable and even free By providing those resources for us to create this experience for you So without them and amazing support, we we could not have done this So please give them a round of applause to these great So now we'll pass a bit of time to soup who is currently a mobile platform lead at SP He wants to talk to you a little bit about his personal project on mental note that he has recently launched Hello, everyone. So this is a personal project that I launched today This is not a full-time thing for me, so I full-time work for SP group So rather than talking about mental note, I want to tell about why I build this and How I build this So I have been in the tech industry for our last 10 or 12 years So in this time, I have been active in events like this Both as an attendees and as an organizer So one thing that I realized over this period of time that people can do anything they want Provided they have the proper guidance So some of you are here today trying to find out how to get into tech industry And some of you will get through the bootcamp and for others. It's not the end. This is just the beginning so if you are able to find your passion and Really a bigger goal in life Then you can achieve whatever you want to do So mental note is all about that. It's a mentoring platform two of the categories that I launched today with Our women in tech and startups So you can find mentors and connect with mentors in this platform It's free. I don't want to charge mentees to use this platform There's nothing much for mentors in it as well a lot of other platforms that I search and found Usually mentees need to pay a lot to find a mentor so like few thousand bucks But I want this to be a community where mentors can help others because they want to help Like some of the coaches here today, they are not going to get paid for helping you to learn coding So they are going to help you because they want to help you get succeeded in life Again as I mentioned This is a personal project. I Finished this in three months while having a day job So one thing that I did is I worked on this every single day I worked for about two hours every day and I was just going through the take ladies, you know the Standing and it says that it's a part-time thing and it is possible to do things part-time and it is possible to achieve whatever you want to do Doing this part-time provided you commit yourself to this thing every day You need to spend time on this every single day. That's the key Don't want to go through this a lot This is not a sales piece. Just wanted to introduce about this particular Project if you haven't taken your t-shirt, you can take it later on. Thank you. I'll pass the mic back to the organizers Thanks Right. So what is tag ladies, right? So we here at tag ladies we believe that the ability to code is a superpower Okay, there are so many problems and issues today that can be solved with technology When I'm equipped with the ability to code I can figure out I can look at a problem Figure out how to solve it and have the ability to solve it and build the solution myself and that's really cool Now where are the women right? It's strange that when you look around You don't see a lot of women around So we think to ourselves at tag ladies, right? Like programming so amazing. Why isn't there? More of us around like is it because it's a gender difference. Is it a stigma whatsoever too many answers for that? so we think that it's a shame that women are put up by technology and Tag ladies is then born out of that desire to tilt that scale, right? So this is created by Elisha tech ladies It is Thanks, it's a community-led initiative for women to connect learn and advance as programmers By community-led we mean three things. We are not a registered school Not an NGO and not a company. Okay, we're all volunteers with our own full-time jobs And we rely entirely on the support of our volunteers and the community So at tech ladies, we believe that technology is for everyone the industry currently is Sadly male dominated and our hope is to provide women a way to experience programming Okay, so that said we are not anti-men. We are just women focused Men are important allies and they too have something to contribute in fact If you look around the room a lot of our volunteers today and even our coaches one of our coaches is a man So Lauren's photographer We've got Michael and we've got Chi-an So whether you are someone who is exploring the industry Learning how to code or someone who's already in the industry. We've got something for you here. Okay, so in tech ladies, we enable Women through three channels through community through education and through opportunity So starting with community. We had hoped that in this channel We provided space for women to find the peers in tech So they can connect and shared Through share experiences and knowledge. So we go out and we eat because we need to eat Not that so it's so it's more social than it is educational So within the second pillar of education, we've got tech study tech ladies study and coding weekend Which is sort of like short workshops or events that we organize to On a subject or any of that to help our ladies in fact this weekend We have a coding weekend in Penang itself So in our final pillar we have the opportunity and that's our tech talks and our bootcamp I will share a little bit about the bootcamp in a bit But with tech talks basically we provide that environment for women to Sort of come and give talks to build their confidence and to meet peers of other like the peers as well So there you have it three pillars six programs and hopefully more to come Right. So what is the tech ladies bootcamp, right? It is a part-time programming bootcamp Designed to help women with little to no coding background to switch careers into the tech industry This is a hands-on learning experience. You will work in groups of three Led by a head coach to work on one project for one NGO so women's situation for everyone So since the inception in 2016 we've hosted four bootcamp so far We've got About 30 women who have graduated from the bootcamp. So eight of this women Currently have roles within the industry full-time be a full-time internship or part-time Through this bootcamp, we have also helped nine non-profit orgs By building applications for them and some of the examples that we have done Film submission apps we've done apps for adoption. We've done classroom management apps. We've done donor management apps, etc So our previous bootcamps were taught in Ruby on Rails. What's exciting and different this time around is that we'll be tackling JavaScript As with the previous bootcamps, we there will be two NGOs for each of the NGOs. There will be three participants three coaches And then we'll have a team of three designers to support these two NGOs So in a few minutes, we will be inviting the NGOs to come and give you a short presentation on what they do And how and the project that they are working with tech ladies on But first can I introduce you to our coaches and our designers? So six coaches this time around Qion, Huixing and Yixu. Can you just So they will be helping our first NGO the sustainable solutions network And then we've got Amanda Saloni and Jin-Ti who will be teaching who will be helping the second NGO who is Center for Responsible Future Okay, so our designers this time around Esther, Wei-Man and Perley They will be looking after and supporting all the URUX visual parts of that So you'll be able to find more details about our coaches and our designers on the tech ladies website Okay, without further ado, let's welcome our first team sustainable solutions network Hi everyone, I'm Ying-Tung And I'm Jeffrey and we're from the sustainable solutions network. So we're actually working with Amanda Saloni and Jun-Ti Yeah So the sustainable solutions network is basically a one-stop portal for environmental organizations in Singapore and our vision is to connect local Sustainability projects and initiatives so that they can share resources and so that they can collaborate and actually come up with new projects Some of our existing features are a database of green groups a collection of funding opportunities Environmental profiles as well as event reviews Our past projects have included an environmental personality quiz that actually shows you what kind of environmental changemaker you are and The events we host include meet-ups and sharing sessions So our role is really as a facilitator in the environmental scene Now our involvement with tech ladies comes in when we realize that We're facing a problem Which is that we can't really scale our facilitation efforts just because we're the ones Maintaining manually these databases and these stores of information and instead we want to move it to a more crowd-sourced and decentralized way of Getting this information and we want to build a collaboration platform that is by the community and for the community Instead of centrally maintaining it. We want to open up the maintenance to everyone who's actually going to benefit from it right so over here you can actually see some of the Features on our website. So these are basically screenshots right now with what we have on our website SSN Singapore or IG so as in Tom mentioned the database of environmental organizations So anyone who visits our website can actually scroll through just these organizations also we also host the Lay part in SG Canada, which is a display of all the environmental events that Are taking place in Singapore But of course, I think don't mention there isn't a way right now to scale up this Uploading and sharing of information and resources And with tech ladies we hope to build a portal for volunteers as well as for project initiators To maintain a database that is updated in real time that is comprehensive and that can show people What's going on in the environmental scene right now? Yeah, that's all from us. Thank you Can we now invite the coaches the ThoughtWorks coaches to speak a little bit more about how they are helping? NGO Hello So I'm Jin see one of the coaches for the team building app for the Singapore sustainable network sustainable solutions that work sorry of Singapore from Singapore so We are a team of three coaches from ThoughtWorks So I said I'm Jin see I am a software developer I started at ThoughtWorks at the start of this year and I also coached the last batch of tech ladies Teaching them to build a app in Ruby on rails, which is actually the app that we are using for your application process this year So yes, the things that you build for this bootcamp will be used will be used by NGOs and maintained in the future So I've also been teaching people Beginners programming for various things like in in my university and such so I've quite a bit of experience teaching beginners programming and My colleagues Saloni and Amanda will also like to introduce themselves Hello, everyone. I'm Saloni and I have two plus years of experience in software development And I believe that teaching is a Very good way to learn actually so why this bootcamp? we will both I mean we'll all be learning together and I hope you guys sees this opportunity and Yep, hope to see all of you soon in the bootcamp pass to Amanda Hi everyone Sorry, I'm having a really bad call So I'll keep this short. I'm sorry. I'm a software developer with ThoughtWorks too I've been working there for about one and a half years So I kind of started on a more like unconventional path I used to be in banking for about five years before I signed up for a web immersive program So I've also like I've been learning It's been a really rewarding journey kind of tough. I had a really steep learning curve So I really want to lend a hand to anyone who wants to go down this path too Because I think it's been really rewarding and I think you'll see that and you'll find that if you join the bootcamp So yeah, looking forward to meeting all of you Awesome. Thank you. So I think one one really cool thing that you'll notice about our team is that for the first time All the coaches are ladies. So we have had four Yes, please clap. So we've had four that ladies bootcamp so far And I think for the first two bootcamps all the coaches were male We finally had two female coaches for the last bootcamp. I was one of them and finally we actually have Tag ladies team that really feels more like a tag ladies team this time. So awesome. Thank you very much So what will you build if you join, you know, our team? Basically, we are building like Intel has already explained a platform for SSN which is which is a platform for environmental organizations to post their projects So as an organization, you're going to be able to log in Yeah, so as an organization You can build a login and set up a set of account and log in and post any kind of projects that you want volunteers for and as a volunteer on the public you'll be able to browse search and filter these projects and Also, these projects will be vetted by an admin and SSN admin like in tone herself before they are they are able to go live So this is like the rough overview how a user would use this app And this are the beautiful mocks that our design designer volunteers have put up so you can imagine that this is like the the homepage the landing page for a person from the public to view all the projects and This would be a page For a single project so they can see all the project details organizations details and they are able to volunteer for it and See what kind of issues this organization is actually tackling So with that, I Know right. It's really beautiful. Thank you designers with that You may be like, okay, that sounds simple enough as a user It's quite a standard kind of like Kickstarter platform counting people post stuff and you view them right sign up But okay, maybe like tell me something. I don't know so from a technical point of view. What are we going to? What do you have to learn to build this app? So firstly, it's a very basic very standard like crud what we call crud app So create read update delete most what ups these days are very standard. So as organizer you can create Project you can view the project you can update the project and then you can like lead the project So it's it's going to be that kind of pretty standard Crud web app and the text text that we're going for this webcam is going to be react on the front end So this is the this is the view layer. That's actually what the user interacts with and sees and The data it's gonna the data is going to be handled by a Node.js and express back-end server So this is the part that deals with more like the business logic data validation and And the persistence is gonna the persistence layer is basically this database called MongoDB So this is a no SQL database that will basically store the data that we need to save in this app For example, the projects that we're going to save the database or the organizations that we're going to save to the database and And while it's all good to you know build an app that you can see working locally on your machine It's not much point if it's only going to work on your machine So obviously we're gonna have to deploy this to the world to the web for everyone to admire your work And for this we're going to use this service called Heroku So it's a platform as a service that allows developers to deploy applications on the cloud So basically there'll be a server running the code for your app and serving it to the for the world So I see of you nodding your heads and I think okay good to go. I'm ready, right? But it's not you know, it's not just Quite just all of that. I mean, that's all the specific technologies that we'll be using but Underlying of that. There's actually a lot of things. There's a lot more things for you to learn. So Some of these things include I'm waiting for Mike to take the picture Some of these things include, you know JavaScript and programming fundamentals like how to think algorithmically how to model your Problems and solve them in code And general software development principles like writing clean code Testing your code that you write, version control Continuous integration that means like if you have multiple people developing different features in parallel and how to integrate that those features Together seamlessly as you work on the project and also project management Like how are we gonna split up our tasks, analyze the tasks that we need to do in the form of user stories and assign Them to different people to paralyze our work And also like domain modeling. So how do we model the business domain in the form in which we can transform it into code? And also very importantly teamwork and communication. These are super important things for Developers and programmers in case you didn't know and hopefully we'll be able to impart to you the skills to learn how to learn and the confidence to do so So With that it may feel like oh my god, it's quite overwhelming Maybe I just name drop all these technologies and you're like what is what is all of this? And I agree that it's it's made it may be slightly overwhelming for beginners But don't worry. We are here to help you and to teach you And I think just there's only since it's a part time camp There's a limit to how much you can absorb and how much we can teach within this limited time But I just hope you can treat this bootcamp as a your springboard into your future, you know opportunities and Careers career and tech so with that I wish you all the best for application process And we look forward to work and teach those of you who make it for this book. So thank you Can we now invite our second NGO Center for Responsible Future? Hello Hello, I'm Ashwarya from the Center for Responsible Future Right, so our mission is to engage people and organizations in Singapore To adopt responsible practices for a better future for all of us You may be familiar with some of our initiatives Which are vegetarian society animal allies alliance for a responsible future and earthfest so What we're looking to do to work with the tech ladies is for earthfest So earthfest is our annual plan based sustainability event. We've had about three runs And it features talks by sustainability experts We bring in community partners from, you know, the nonprofit groups other schools and It also has a plant-based food bazaar right and Like I mentioned, you also have exhibits and things from local schools so oh This is a glimpse of how Earthfest is Has anyone been to earthfest earlier? You have Okay, so that's earthfest so so far it has been a Single-day event that we do once a year and we realize that you know There's so much interest into adopting sustainable and green practices that we felt that we need to Expand it beyond the one-day event so what we're doing this year is to Expand earthfest into earth life With six different components. So there are six different components as your waste biofilia Carbon-positive minimalism advocacy and plant-based. So we're hoping to build a series of activities that lead to earthfest and also Have a platform that gives people resources About the six components of earth life So we're looking to educate and increase the awareness on personal actions that people can take on how to become green and We want to build a community that is committed to being sustainable As well as to provide resources and tips on how to focus on the different components of earth life and The resources will also include a self-assessment Tool and suggested actions that you can take so that's where the tech ladies team comes in So currently what happens is earthfest is just a single events page. So if you go in there's not much details Right and most of the traffic that comes to earthfest is during you know Just before the festival itself or immediately after the rest of the year. It's quite idle And we don't have any Dedicated IT staff or you know person managing it. So if volunteers available, we have about two or three So if they're available, they help us, you know do updates to the website and things like that. So with Whoever comes into the bootcamp. We hope that you can expand The earth life part of the website Build the different self-assessment components That will help us to engage our audience better. That's it. Thank you. Thank you. Ashwarya. Can we invite the coaches to come speak? Okay, hi everyone. So we are the second team. I'm waiting the one in the middle if no resemblance never mind So our lead coach is Chi-yong So I would like to invite Chi-yong to come up and show his face As you can see unlike the first team we have an honorary sister as our head coach Yes, and the third coach is Yishu. So I also want Yishu to come up and show her face So all three of us are front-end engineers and the task like both teams have rather similar Learning opportunities the key difference between the first project and our project is that ours will be a bit more front-end heavy meaning There's not that much of a back-end unlike the first project It's it's really very front-end focus and we'll explain a bit more later So I will let Chi-yong introduce himself because Hello everyone, I'm Chi-yong Yes, I'm not sure why I'm not a hate coach but anyway So I'm kind of like quite experienced like more experienced than the rest I guess So and I'm I think I'm the only guy in the The only sister the only sister in the all lady coaches Yeah, so I kind of like my lady job is just front-end front-end front-end. So it's like, yeah, so that's much I don't know what to say I'm Yishu and this is my sixth year as a software engineer My started off as a mobile engineer iOS. So but then now I'm moving more to front-end. So front-end web Yeah, I Just drag them up here to like, you know put it in the sport for myself. I'm also front-end engineer. So I mentioned So I also as a front-end engineer in my day job and I've done this for I've done this since 2013 but like formerly employed but like been doing it As for fun friends and family before that. So as you can see add together There's a lot of years of front-end. So that's why the project that we're in charge of is a very front-end heavy Project. So what we what will we be doing? Like as you understood just now like a fest is a one once a year thing But one of the key things that they want to move towards is to have a sort of more of a daily like a lifestyle day-to-day thing rather than just you know being a socially responsible for one day of the Like one week of the year sort of thing. So One small step toward doing this because again is a is a volunteer led organization. We can't expect like oh big project So one small step toward doing this is we're gonna build an interactive quiz. So think Buzzfeed the like What type of broomstick are you softening but better? So So So it's an interactive quiz and the flow is relatively straightforward when you look at the wire frames But there's a lot more complexity to it. So we'll talk about that later But the the gist of it very straightforward start the quiz the six components of earth life and You'll answer a series of questions So you'll get an assessment again. I said what type of broomstick are you but better? And and then part of it is you you get a selection of actions. So you sort of that they are called to actions from after the Buzzfeed quiz you just share on Facebook and then you like okay, my friend knows that I am a very Good-looking broomstick and that's it But this one there's a one more step which is like choose actions and you'll get an action plan So that's that's the high-level g-stop it But because this is a very front-end Heavy sort of Project one of the key challenges you were not facing is that With visual heavy and design design heavier projects Everybody has an opinion But if it's mostly back-end people at most they can just say oh meow Okay, I guess a dashboard is a dashboard So fair enough carry on but when you have a design heavy project Everybody and ya cat has an opinion like I don't think my cat likes this particular shade of green so so one of the things that will your face is how to Clearly articulate the constraints because this is a 12-week project. We can't change the world in 12 weeks so other than the hard technical skills here, which is HTML CSS and JavaScript, which is the foundation of anything you see on the web. That's what you'll learn Interactive quiz has to have some animation. So they are be quite interesting and of course Similar to the first group. There's key software principles that no matter what type of project you work on you cannot run away from Like versioning. That's the git part There's development test deployment and you do it again. So that's standard and of course to have clean code So, yeah, so part of the thing is how do you make this attractive? How do you make this something that people want to click on? So so again, this is a more visual heavy Front-end focus kind of thing. So animations are a must Potentially, this is something that we end up doing how to do all these animations and things like that the last technical part of things is Similar to the first group. You have to learn how to manage the project to manage client expectations as a team We obviously have to learn how to work together because when you write all right code to the same project You realize that if you don't Think about your teammates the code become very messy. So that's part of the learning and you also realize that What appears to be a simple project usually ends up very complicated? So you may end up in the top right corner situation and The most important lesson is resilience because at the end of the day It will not be smooth. I'm sure most of you are working professionals. You understand this that Most of the time 80% the work is Like thankless But sometimes 20% of the time you'll get like exciting things happening. So this pretty much is the same So that's the soft skills part of it and so hopefully this interests you Even though the coaches seem a bit any howly well, that's because we are finite engineers and we are not really public speakers so Trust us on this and I will hand this off to Shalene to continue the techniques thing Okay. Hi everyone. My name is Shalene. I'm the other organizer for the Tech Ladies book and number four So these are the key dates for the Tech Ladies book and number four if you want you can take a photo of it first Else it will be available on the website So let me run through it. So today the application will open and it will close on the 13th of August In between in July on the 14 21 and 28th, we will have the pre-bookhand workshops Where we will cover the stacks used for the technical task submissions and also used to build the project itself Between July and August dates to be confirmed. We will have code clinics. So over here We'll probably have two sessions The coaches will be available At the code clinics to go through any problem that you might face when building your applications Okay, and then the actual session will start on the 1st of September and we'll run to 17th of November This book can we run every single Saturday and then we're looking at the graduation party in 2019 in January Yep, so let me take you through the application process Okay So sometimes tonight or tomorrow morning, there will be a link on the main Tech Ladies website to Apply for the for the bootcamp. So what you'll see is that you click on the link and then you'll reach this page Program details stuff that I covered earlier on will be Available here and you'll get to see the coaches bio and all that over here What we need you to do is to click on apply and then you'll see this book have fall and then you apply for this so The application form has like three sections the first two session sections actually ask you about your particulars and some other background questions The important part is to at the end of section two you'll get to choose which NGO you want to work with so you can choose SSN CRF or you can choose any team if you don't have a preference Okay, so section three is a technical task. So this is the important section You have a few to fill in over here After your technical task completion, you have to fill in your github repo URL or your Dropbox link So if you do not fill in this few when you submit your application form your application form will be deemed incomplete And then we will just like not process it. So please fill this up very important Okay Over here you can click on the here button. This will take you to the link with the technical task requirements So, yep, you can read through this whole thing, but let me summarize it the technical task will be in Be built using like HTML CSS and JavaScript. We have three levels for that So we have the basic level So the first level you just have to build an about me page a to-do list in To be in VHS, which is a front-end JavaScript framework and also a navigation bar to Navigate between the two pages so that this is just purely a front-end app If you decide to, you know, you want to take out more challenge You can go for the bonus task Where you have to create a to-do list and save it to a database so for this you'll probably have to do with like Node.js and using the Express framework and Also with the MongoDB database and the last Level level three is the brownie task point where you are just Try to deploy your app onto Heroku and then from there the coaches are able to look at your application on the website itself On the on the web itself So, I mean if all this look daunting to you, don't worry because we're here to help you Okay, we're not we're not here to deter you to apply for the boot camp You can find the resources to whatever you need at the bottom of the requirement Info sheet and also during the pre-book camp and the code clinics feel free to ask any of the coaches who are all here to help you Yeah, if you have any other questions regarding the task not bugs are just tasks You can email me or pay me now Bugs, I don't know whether it can help you but tasks requirements. I think we can If you have any other questions, you can join our Facebook group and then you can just post there Usually the response there is quite fast So, yeah, let me go back to the slide So so yeah, so I think most of you are already on our tech ladies Group page feel free to join us. We actually have two pages. So it's a bit confusing But we have a community page with quite a lot of people and we also have a private group Which is the tech ladies group. So the difference between that is that we don't spend the community group We spend the group the tech ladies group we share articles and then Elijah will post links from time to time For like say free tickets exclusive to tech ladies members. So, yeah, feel free to join us over there And yeah, we're also looking for volunteers. So if I may digress a bit That's who made myself In the photo. So, yeah, so we were participants of the last bootcamp. So bootcamp number three This one is bootcamp number four. So we just graduated like the start of this year And I think like coming from coming as a participant from the past bootcamp We can really really tell you that we we benefited a lot from the last bootcamp We basically had a one-to-one Teacher-student ratio. So it's like a man full-on mentorship for like 12 weeks at a very minimal cost I dare say there is no program in Singapore that actually does this Yeah, so so So for yeah, so it's also through tech ladies that we've got to know a lot of members in the community in the larger tech community and a lot of people have actually heard about this tech ladies initiative So, yeah, we're very grateful to be part of this organization The coaches the designers all of us are actually holding full-time jobs But we take time out to volunteer for these initiatives So of course we also have to thank the sponsors, you know without the sponsors You don't get a nice venue and a nice food But we are always on the lookout for more volunteers if you believe that this is a cause that You know to help more women get into the tech industry more beginners get into the tech industry Please feel free to reach out to us We'll be very willing to and very happy to talk to you. Yeah, so Yeah, if that is all I hope you guys enjoyed the full session and the food and we look forward to Receiving your applications very soon. Thank you so You if you all have any questions Feel free to ask. We have a few goodie bags Yeah, oh ask a question get a goodie bag. Yeah, nice deal, right? Oh agent here. You're a coach. So Huh? Oh, yes Oh, tell me so this bootcamp application thing right? Tell me more about it. Who build it? I wonder Okay, so We don't want to both laugh, but we actually build it With the help of so Chinti was from the previous batch. She was also a coach with the previous batch She was a assistant coach. So this time on she's taking a full-on Row as a coach. So yeah, we built that application form for use for the this current bootcamp and the subsequent bootcamps. Yes We actually use Ruby and Ruby or rails. Yeah, so This time around we're using JavaScript. So it's entirely different. Thank you anything else. Is it Windows iOS or Android or Common so so these are apps that leave on the web So with any browser more or less, you can you can use it but when building itself You can use a Windows laptop. You can use a Mac laptop Then the coaches will kind of help you configure your development environment to help you develop that But it's easier if a Mac Don't say I said it Shalene over this Can I just ask how do you decide whether to focus more on front-end or back-end? So for the last few bootcamps, right what we've been doing is that we've always gone for full stack If you realize that one two three, right We always go for like full stack full stack full stack, but then what what we realize is that it's very difficult for For a newbie like somebody would never go before to come out and actually find a job as a full stack developer in the industry You realize right if you weren't applied for jobs, right? Somehow the openings are all for front-ends. So that's why this time round we thought, you know, since we're doing JavaScript Why not? We do a front-end team because we have like three these three are like the best three front-end people in Singapore as in Honestly, they are like the top top people in Singapore We think over there she runs a Singapore CSS CSS talk every single month. So you can go and go for the talks as well Yeah, okay. This Thursday that's one at Carousel, right? Okay, Carousel Yeah, so it should be there as well and then Chi-yong is the one that started copy.js We should meet up for JavaScript. So these people are really Solid one. So yeah So for myself, I mean if I may share like After graduating from the bootcamp Also applied for a front-end job and got it. So it's also a front-end position So I found it the technical tasks that they asked during the views and stuff the front-end tasks are a lot more doable In my opinion, you know, there are people that got full stack Rolls lah, but that's why we have a front-end team this time round. Yeah, thank you for the question So Do you want to answer? Sorry repeat Well, it depends on what you choose in in your application form whether you have a preference a strong preference for team 1 team 2 Or you have no preference It's dependent on the coaches how they will select you. Yeah If you choose like any team then like coaches from both teams are able to choose. Yeah Maybe a coach can answer you. Do you want a full stack coach? Yeah, okay So I think it really depends on your your application like the technical tasks that you submit in and We will evaluate that and based on the potential that we see and And also based on your own preference that you indicate we the different teams will will choose accordingly But it doesn't mean that just because you chose SSN that you cannot get the opportunity to be selected if SSN is really full and the other team needs people So it's really just like we will see who is suitable for for that particular team and choose accordingly So don't like don't worry that if I choose SSN, I will I cannot I cannot ever get in for the other team Any more questions? No one wants a goodie bag Actually that there's a comment so Y'all may think that like six participants that we are choosing out of like the last time round We had 86 applicants that the channel is very low. Then you all don't want to apply kind of thing I would say like just don't be scared and just try because you really never know like the coaches have never met the Participants before they chose them So it's really based on got the questions that you are answered and the the technical tasks that you submitted That they'll base that decision the decision on so just just try Yeah I'm just some piggybacking of the other ladies question So if we submit, let's say We do the technical tasks and we submit more on the front end. Will we be considered more likely for a front end? For the front end row rather than the back end to be clear all around the SSN team is the team that's doing the full stack The EarthFest team is the team that's doing the front end. So when you apply you all can yeah You elaborate briefly like what's the evaluation criteria in the selection of the candidates Like can you evaluate what's the Sorry, can can you elaborate? Why is the evaluation criteria in the selection of the candidates? Okay, so so based on last last year it's really based on a Lot of is based definitely on a technical task So we evaluate that's more for us to devalue what's the amount of time and effort that you can put in for this So not really so much about technical capability. Although there's also definitely some of that But because we recognize that for you to actually build something something full and working that really takes a lot of time and dedication So that's really indication of how much you're willing to put in to learn and to get into this industry And how much effort you're willing to put into this bootcamp In addition to that also there are some questions that Shalene showed just now in the form that Ask more about your personal background like why you why you interested in tech ladies What you hope to get out of it? So we also evaluate your potential based on those questions But you know those are freeform up to you to answer based on You know just just don't be afraid to answer something that will sound wrong or something. It's like Just to help us get a feel of why you're in why why you're interested in this bootcamp That's waiting on anything Yeah, okay, so just to I realize a lot of people are very concerned about the whole Selection criteria or this is a test, but I guess my comment is that if you're not sure and this is something that's completely new to you It's we have that's the point of the pre bootcamp workshops. So it's a it's freefall You know the pre bootcamp workshops. There's no selection criteria. No bring your bring your friends bring your kids bring your cat and sort of like get a feel of what you would expect because maybe maybe there'll be some of you like Not ready for me But at least you've gone through like about three sessions you learn something for free That's great. And for the rest of you you might so I was like, hey This particular aspect is a bit more interesting to me And then you can sort of evaluate your own interest based on that because honestly now to ask you all to choose It's a bit not fair. It's like asking your 10 year old like Kid Decide what you want to be for the rest of your life. I cannot la 10 year old how you know, right? So same thing is that you you come for the pre bootcamp workshops and you sort of just Understand a bit more and so that you can make a more informed decision about okay I think I kind of more interested in how the like the bad end stuff works or it's like something That's more relevant to what I'm doing now like all sorts of reasons or you could be like, okay I think Friday quite exciting then and it's what it will help you inform decision if you show up for the pre Bootcamp thing as for the tasks, right? We we you you don't have to understand that at the end of the day We are delivering something real for real clients. I'm gonna call them clients because that's exactly what they are and So there has to be a level of commitment And if it's something that you feel that it's not interesting enough for you to be committed then maybe Don't because at the end of the day even though this is a supposed to be a learning opportunity. There are some real Results that we want out of it like they are actual Products and actual clients and actual expectations that come out of it and in to be honest That's the best way to learn because there's if you've attempted to solve it Oh, how do I get started in front and they will be bombarded by a lot of information? So my take on it and why I always tell like people who are new to this is that it's good to know of Things don't have to learn them until you need them And that's the point of why we have real clients and real NGOs and real products So you will learn something not everything but something that is very specific and very practical and something that delivers an actual product And from there because you've gained a bit of knowledge you can go on move on to the next project and then learn something else. I think so for the whole technical testing I guess there is a base requirement and If there's something like a bonus task, there's something that you feel Pick something that you are more interested in like don't pick something that you look at it And then it's like I don't feel like doing this because if it's it's not that easy Even for those of us who are experienced right every other day. I I'm throwing things at my screen because it's it's a relatively frustrating career choice and But the reason why we can come back and do it the next day Other than the fact that we are paid to do it and like my bank. I can't like see it It's also the fact that at the end of the day actually I do kind of like doing this Like yeah, so if it's something that you you really Don't want to then then really don't so try to find some an area where it's something that you're a bit more interested in then you go and pursue that path and And Yeah, the worst come to worst just show up for all the free pre-book camp sessions and then like It's also quite worth it lies budget on zero right so, yeah Thank you. Yeah, by the way, the pre-book camp workshops are not free. Just to clarify Yeah Okay, yeah, just to add on for the pre-book camp workshops or For the boot camp itself Yes, the official days are Saturdays But depending on the team We make you can like make arrangements within the team depending on the coaches availability and stuff. So Yeah, so the commitment that we require is is 12 weeks and it's about 10 to 15 hours per week with Three three hour blocks on Saturdays that you actually work with the coaches and sit with the coaches But you are definitely expected to work Throughout the week. Yeah, so the rest the rest of the Saturday the rest of the week You'll be doing your own like self-study and reading and all that Okay, sorry one question for you So the first pre-wood camp workshop was stated on 14th of July. Is there any way to reach out before that? Is there any way to sorry is there any way to reach out to you guys before that? Facebook Yeah, yeah Okay, and also there were links To learn how to code Does it also state how to kind of like download the software on your laptop and get started with it? some of the tutorials might contain setup instructions, but We can add more Specific stuff for that. I guess if if that if you think there will be an issue So don't worry. So we will update that we may we will be updating the technical task pitch I mean the the task as a whole will stay more is the same But we may add like certain link more links and stuff as the weeks go by, right? Thank you From zero from zero to hero, you know, it's like Women what So I didn't study CS in school Completely unrelated. I took some coding classes some But and I also just to encourage everyone. I did not do the bonus points in my technical tasks But I still got it. So I don't know why you can actually see Yeah, so I hope that's an encouragement. You don't necessarily I think what the coaches look for is really just like sort of drive and Passion they are trying to get you into the tech industry So don't be discouraged by all just apply Yeah, so to add on to Huixing's point earlier and also what I said about treaties as a springboard So it's just the beginning. It's just a room Platform for you to explore you may not you may find at the end of it. Maybe I'm not cut out to be a developer That's fine Some of the ladies they move on not in the tech industry not in a dev row per se But they want to be project managers or like other yeah technical sales So having at least appreciation of the technical aspect will definitely help you even if you choose to go into tech But not as a developer Yeah, you don't have to worry. I when I go into the bootcamp I got scolded for my indentation because Developers are very particular about how they indent their code. So I really had no idea about it at all So so no so I graduated with zero background I graduated with a sports science degree and then I was a pet groomer before I started coding So it's a very manual job. I didn't use my brains for like five years that kind of thing And then I had to use my brains again. So Yeah So I mean I think what they are really looking for if you ask me is the drive to want it bad enough Like for me, I really wanted it. So like completed everything like everything. So I just just like just I literally spent it I was trying to push it up to heroku that that's how much I wanted it To heroku, you know the part whereby you have to push it up to deploy it to heroku You will encounter a lot of errors You always encounter a lot of errors when you code like it's a given thing So but to not give up and to try for that extra half an hour that led to two hours to let the three hours You know that kind of thing. It's really up to you how much you want it. Okay, everyone. I'm zero Okay, so Yeah, I don't know if I can actually get to hero But the thing is if I actually go through the pre bootcamp workshops as well as code clinics, right? I mean given that I'm a train accountant. I'm definitely very OCD and all that right. So Have you actually had an accountant who is like very on and all that but zero like pass through and actually, you know successfully Develop something A member used to be from a bank My degree is finance is hanging on my dad's wall. That's all it's good for like yeah, I did not make it rain Software developer that is struggling to increase my CPF So I also graduated with a banking and finance degree. So I worked in banking for five years When I started this I had I knew nothing about HTML CSS So it's like at the end of day, even if you graduate with a computer science degree, right? And like what they mentioned every single day will be like banging our heads will be like encountering all these errors There are many things that we're still learning every single day So it's kind of that determination that is going to bring you from I guess you want to call it zero to hero But every day there's a little bit that you learn and you'll actually be really astounded at the end of the day One year later or even after the bootcamp and you look back and you realize how much you've learned Accomit like accumulatively every single day just through that determination And I think that's what you are gonna feel really proud of at the end of the bootcamp when you build this working product And you see it go live and that's actually when I started So okay, maybe I'm talking a bit too much, but when I started I Wanted to join FinTech. I didn't really think I'll become a developer So I thought maybe I'll go into a product managerial role like Just understand the technical aspect of things, but I end up really liking it So that's how I kind of develop that but you kind of learn that you like it Like every single day as you do it like a little bit more a little bit more So like don't think too much about it I think I think like the web and what you encounter can be very Intimidating and I still am every single day when I need like an error or a bug So don't think too much about it I think you should just try it and come for the pre bootcamp with chops Just get through that and see whether that's enough to take you to the next step So I think thinking about it. It's not like doesn't do me much favours and maybe you might find the same Yeah, so hopefully that helps Is there a once a year thing Yeah, it's gonna be a once a year thing. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, we're trying to finish everything before December because we want to go on holiday But in terms of timing usually we start about about June is about about right We start with the info session and get everything ready and then like Q3. That's where the boot camp Yeah, somewhere out there. Yeah, so in terms just answer the previous question. So some of our graduates One is asked with us and then she went for an internship and developed internship decided that she didn't like it So she's now a project manager. It's still in the tech industry Again as to it is some so and another was a customer service rep So she was answering phone calls. Now. She's a developer. So there are people from all walks of life even Michael He he he's not the AV guy. It's not okay. He's not just the AV guy So he he he's the sort of he organizes the php made up also the php programming conference So he has been in the industry for over a decade. Tell us what what you majored in University So, yeah, I think there's been as a repetitive theme that you know, you don't really need a CS degree To be part of this industry having said that it's still hard work Other questions I really think that this kind of boot camp is really benefiting so Why only take six participants and will why only take six participants and is there any chance to take more So I think between like with Shalene and I we found that one-to-one mentorship is really just like amazing Of course, we want to achieve that balance of benefiting the tech ladies as well as Just making sure the tech ladies have have like full value and maximum value of joining this boot camp So we thought that six is a good number Next I mean if we have the resources and capacity Six in total so three ladies for each team So I mean next year if we have more volunteers to help our more coaches Then we can take on more NGOs then potentially we can take on more tech ladies Yeah, but for now we are capping at six Yeah, I think it took us about three months plus of work to come to today Contacting like 200 over NGOs just to find the right one So the previous batch we had I think six and rules was it six years five Second one we had 15 because we thought I know the larger we want to help more people But on the operations the organizing part. I'm still paying for it. Even though it's like Two years ago, so again, we are all volunteers So there's a limit to how much we can do so we do as much as we can I think a difference or so for last year and this year is that we actually have three coaches per team So the first two iterations of the boot camp was only one coach per team and some of the coaches So there was a lot of work for them and the scope was a bit unmanageable And with I think Chilean women can tell you like with the one-on-one ratio the learning is really much more much better So you're aiming for quality over quantity Last question just question and answer or I mean we have to attempt the technical task at home first Then come for the clinic just for the question and answer Okay, and then why there are three clinics. I mean is it because it's step-by-step It means the first clinic for this step then second clinic only for the step in the middle So the pre boot camp will run on Saturdays, so it's on the 14th 21st and 28th of July So it's three Saturdays in between those two and also maybe one week after so first week for August We may have weekly code clinics So code clinics are meant to be free and easy if you have a bug or you want to do something You don't know how to get started. That's where you can come and get like a consultation like a clinic law That the code clean is completely optional Yeah weekday nights Vanu TBD it depends on the sponsor we have if not, we're just hunkered down at a Starbucks Anyone officer's one-all Shout out the pre boot camp the topics most probably the first the first workshop will be html CSS and github and then after that the second workshop will be JavaScript and the third workshop will probably be react and a bit of Since you're on a So second workshop will be JavaScript basics as well as some react basics The workshop will do a bit more react and do some back-end stuff like node.js express And MongoDB if there's time Okay, any last questions I Understand that there will be wireframe creation needed needed for the front-end part, right? So I'm just wondering if we need to be good at a design and good in design in order to do of the front-end Yeah, just to note we actually have design volunteers who are doing the mock-ups and the wireframe so Yeah, so we have the design volunteers So the mock-ups that you saw in our talks just now those were done by wayman early our Volunteers, so you don't have to worry that I have to be able to do all these wireframes and mock-ups myself It's a it's more of a coding book. I'm not a design Agreed maybe wayman will be interested in holding Okay, we are out of We got anybody This is a burning question burning question have to get it's not cannot we just until 14 of July nah, I'm just kidding Great My burning question is like, you know after you have done the The apps for for the different NGOs. What happens? I mean is that any any anybody? Helping them thereafter Yeah to maintain the websites So we try to look for NGOs that have an IT support within the organization So when we actually call them we screen them for that if they don't have we don't disqualify them But we do tell them that hey, you know after the book can there's only so much we can do and after this You have to take over because it's like a handover to a client and then after that they yeah They have to take it from there themselves. Yeah, thank you. I don't need that. Thank you The real The curse goodie back in like a bouncing around from it. Okay. Okay. Oh, we had one. She was 17 Yeah, so she was actually I think she was 16 going on 17 and she was studying in our eye the fast track The true train track. So she's like super smart. Obviously So to her it was it was she was really good at finding balance. Yeah, she went through this. Yeah about the same period It's not okay So the just now you saw the application form right the last section is a technical task section So it's over there that you find a link to click and then you'll go into another link that explains the whole technical task And what you're supposed to do so and then you'll go back and you'll do the technical task when you're done with it So you're either put a github repo link or a dropbox link, you know to your code into that section So that one is very important is probably that the most important besides your name that that form that that feel yeah, so No No, it is So so the technical task is for you to build an application using HTML CSS JavaScript specifically using react JS which is a JavaScript front-end JavaScript framework So basically it was to build an app and give us the code to give the code to us in some way or the other The most ideal way is you use git you push it up into github so you can view it properly And you just give us that link or we also allow you to submit a zip file with your code It's a task that I believe you All be able to complete with enough time dedication and guidance through the workshops and the code clinics and the links and resources We've given you So there is so to apply for the bootcamp you have to complete a technical task The technical task is to create a to-do app using react and all the tools that Jin see just talked about To help you to get there We this is why we run a pre bootcamp workshop the workshops that happening on the 14th 21st and 28th There's also a bunch of resources that's on the technical task already that Jin see has compiled that can help you to get there So the reason that why we have a technical task is For me is more of administrative Otherwise we get even more applications that we have to look through and it's really hard to tell who has drive and who does not Because there are some people with very strong drive Unable to present themselves with words and there are some people who are really good at presenting themselves with words Clearly like the drive. So this is why we make people finish a technical task in order to apply for the bootcamp Do you want another goodie bag, okay, I think we The question Can can you so you receive an email? So I think I forgot to mention earlier you want to submit your application You receive an email with a link to go back and edit your application So you can feel in the front first and then when you click edit once you finish a technical task Then you go in and put that link of your technical task Yeah, you're really excited. You can click the link now and make some application save it Yeah, yeah, tomorrow Please take it. Please take it Okay, thank you for coming guys. We have extra t-shirts here from the sponsors. So first come first serve this one like Sorry, and that's food. Yeah, I can tap our home or whatever