PowerTools is honored to share the Start Asian Love website, created by Waverley Leung and Emmanuel Jose, software engineers and graduates of NYC’s Tech Talent Pipeline Web Development Fellowship (WDF) at Flatiron School. This beautiful site, built from scratch, offers news, resources, history, ways to donate, and wins related to AAPI communities.
Teaching Tips Using this Website with Students
1) Students Take Action Against Hate: The Support page offers a gorgeous and informative infographic, Your Guide to Bystander Intervention as well as a link to a one hour Bystander Intervention Training that students can sign up to take. Teach your students intervention strategies, discuss how this training can support intervention against racism, bullying and other forms of harassment/violence/hate.
2) Students as Historians and Current Events Knowers: The News section has lots of options for students to dive into. Give them the choice of what they’d like to read about (synch or asynchronous) in small groups or individually. They can then share their learnings on a Padlet, verbally, or through drawings (a research-proven way to retain the most information).
3) Students as Advisors: Waverley and Emmanuel want feedback about this site. Before sharing, ask students to determine what makes a website informative, accessible, attractive, and attention grabbing. Then introduce the site, ask students to read the site thoroughly, discuss, and then complete this feedback form, which will go directly to Emmanuel. They thank you in advance.
The PowerTools Connection
PowerTools has had the pleasure of working with NYC’s Tech Talent Pipeline and Flatiron School, providing social supports and resources to the three Web Development Fellowship cohorts, who participated in an intensive 19-week virtual coding bootcamp. The Web Development Fellows have worked super hard and PowerTools has provided support through workshops, coaching, coordinated resources, social, emotional support, and resource allocation. We’ve loved working with these amazing adults who have gone from no professional coding experience to Software Engineer in less than a year.