Introducing ANova’s Site Leader Committee
Berkeley ANova would like to introduce the newest addition to the ANova family, the Site Leader Committee! As we teach computer science, we strive to learn from these communities and how to best serve them. Using our experiences from being on site, we actively make changes to our organization to reflect our goal of providing the best computer science education we can to these under-resourced communities. The Site Leader Committee was created as a result of that desire.
Although in previous semesters we have always had site leaders, the move to have a separate committee for them is an important one for providing better education. In addition to their site leader duties, previous site leaders would have separate committee work to do, dividing both their time and energy between the two commitments. This can potentially affect how the site is run and the health of the site leaders themselves. This semester, the introduction of the new committee aims to alleviate these problems by allowing site leaders to focus on maintaining their site and the education that is provided without being committed to an additional committee.
The committee is starting its first semester with a group of nine returning, experienced ANova members. Their responsibilities include leading weekly site meetings, tracking mentor attendance, managing classroom expectations, planning and tracking site progress, and continuing to improve ANova by further developing the committee to match their site’s needs.
For the upcoming semester, they are prioritizing improving the quality of sites by getting feedback from mentors and mentees, working with other committees to improve the content being taught, and sharing the resources (laptops, microbits, etc.) that ANova has.
If our club’s mission and/or computer science mentorship interests you, you can reach out to us on our website.
