Community Data Science Workshops (Spring 2014)/Reflections: Difference between revisions

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* '''Wrap-up, 3:30pm-4pm''': Wrap-up, next steps, and upcoming opportunities
 
We had 12 mentors sign up initially. We had about 150 people 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 just over 50 participants.
We did not take roll or even track how many people were present. Our feeling was that nearly every student who came to the first week (Sessions 0 and 1) came to Session 2. Retention between the second two sessions was much worse with perhaps only 60% of the full group returning for session 3. We attribute this both to poor timing (the weekend before finals at UW) and to the long space between the sessions.
 
We did not take roll or even track how many people were present. Our feeling was that nearly every student who came to the first week (Sessions 0 and 1) came to Session 2. Retention between the second two sessions was much worse with perhaps only 60% of the full group returning for session 3. We attribute this both to poor timing (the weekend before finals at UW) and to the long space between the sessions.
 
=== Morning Lectures ===
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