Bridges from School to Work Virtual Mentor

[cnwalker]

About the group

Bridges from School to Work is a non-profit organization that matches students with disabilities with employers. We are building a virtual mentor to help Bridges participants in their day-to-day jobs. The app currently supports FAQs with a recommendation algorithm like Quora.

We have some pretty cool anonymized datasets, that'll hopefully let us do things like:

• Have targeted push notifications (i.e based on our data most people have received a raise after working for x employer as long as you have, you should ask for a raise and here's how).

• Determine based on app activity which things are interesting to which kinds of bridges participants

Group leaders

Christopher Walker Email: christophernathanielwalker@gmail.com

Who we're looking for

• People who have opinions on how mobile apps should look and feel

• People who are interested in coming up with metrics from some anonymized datasets

• People who have experience with React Native/creating mobile frontends

• Anyone who thinks the project is interesting and would like to learn something new

Tools

• React Native for the app itself

• For the server we are using Django, specifically Django rest framework

Relevant Links

Google drive folder w/ designs, project specs, and technical plans

Mobile app github repo

Server github repo

API site

Where we meet

TBD - if there are no rooms available probably the cafeteria

Chi Hack Night slack channel

The Chi Hack Night Slack is a great place to coordinate between hack nights. We encourage you to set one up and share it here!

[derekeder]

Is this group still meeting at Chi Hack Night on a regular basis?

[cnwalker]

Nope I don't think anyone from the project will be back in town until the fall. Should I close this issue?

[derekeder]

Yup - lets close for now. You can reopen when you return. Thanks!