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We had 30 mentors who attended at least one of the sessions and at least 20 mentors at each sessions. Many of our mentors were UW students in more technical departments like [https://www.cs.washington.edu/ Computer Science and Engineering] and [[https://www.hcde.washington.edu Human Centered Design & Engineering]]. Perhaps half of them worked outside of the university as software developers.
We had about 150 participants apply to attend the sessions. We selected on programming skill (to ensure that all attendees were complete beginners), enthusiasm, and randomly to maintain a learner to mentor ratio of between 4 and 5. We admitted 80 participants. 58 listed a UW affliations. Affiliations listed by at least three people include the following:
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! Department !! Participants
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| HCDE || 16
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| iSchool || 10
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| Communication || 8
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| Anthropology || 3
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| Alumni || 4
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| Undergrad || 3
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We had two people each who listed their affiliations as Bio- and Health Informatics, the Foster School of Management, Microsoft, and Wikipedia.
We also had people from Pyschology, the City of Seattle, the Low Income Housing Project, Seattle Meshnet, Biochemical Engineering, Bio Physical, Chemical Engineering, Game Studies, Linguistic, College of the Environment, Oceanography, the School and Public Health, UW Bothell, Central Washington University, and many people who did not specify an affiliation.
Retention between session and 0 and 1 was nearly 100%. Retention between sessions 1 and 2 and sessions 2 and 3 was roughly 75% and leaving us with perhaps 55-60% retention at the end of session 3.
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