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- Learned computer science and fullstack web through project-based learning.- Gained soft skills through the simulation of a professional workplace on campus.

- Coordinator of a weekly support group for women in technology that saw up to 20 attendees.

- Worked in agile-style sprints with a small team of students in collaboration with stakeholders from Make School to design and code a scalable Student Portal for a growing college with 150+ students.- Wireframed, user-tested, and iterated with guidance from Make School designers before producing high-fidelity mockups and prototypes.- Pair-programmed in a large codebase using React and Apollo GraphQL.

- Collaborated to build an open source MERN-stack application that provides tools for young writers participating in National Novel Writing Month to log their progress- Met remotely twice weekly via video chat for sprint planning and retrospectives, wrote documentation to ensure smooth communication across remote team- Contributed client-side and backend JavaScript, implemented Auth0 for application security, organized and maintained client codebase and architecture

As a fellow at Year On, my hours were spent working alongside mentors and coaches to develop goals that focused on universal skills. Weekly goals were spread anywhere from familiarizing myself with new coding languages to new spoken languages; creating mockups and wireframes to painting with watercolors; attending networking events to participating in hackathon-style work sprints.Beyond my growth as a designer and developer during my gap year - the program also focused heavily on building our portfolio of soft skills. Workshops tackled dozens of topics like effective communication, working in teams, critical thinking, handling rejection, mustering confidence, and building a network. Communication workshops touched on how to have difficult conversations, effective email writing, and public speaking.