Program Metrics

Program Outcomes

After taking the class, students should be empowered to work towards building anything that they envision. They will be able to find the resources to execute that project on their own based on what they’ve learned. Leveraging tools they’ve learned in the class:

• Helping foster the hacker mindset
• Knowledge and context to be able build things

The course should also change their way of thinking reinforcing:

• Confidence in their own ability to learn new things
• New appreciation the value of teaching others
• Engineering is very creative and empowering
• Engineering is something for people like me (anyone can be an engineer)

Measuring Success

Core metrics for measuring program success:

• Completion rate
  • How many finish 6 weeks? How many stay an additional 2 weeks?
• Involvement rate
  • How many alumni give back after the program?

Pre/Post surveys:

• "How confident are you in your ability to learn something new?"
• "Assessment of other people’s potentials"
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