Over the past month, I served as a CS Instructor at the Code for Palestine Program, teaching a series of wonderful students React Native and helping them build app prototypes. The program is three years long: I taught a Y2 group and a Y3 group as well. This ReadMe.md is a work in progress, but includes my students' Y3 group projects, and potentially the Y2 groups as well. I hope to publish this as a full website in the future. Without further ado, here are the three groups from the Y3 class I taught. These prototypes were amazing, with the apps focusing on:
- An application to connect patient data to doctors in Palestine
- An application to provide opportunities for youth in Palestine through connecting activities and organizations with young adults
- An education tech application designed to improve access and results on the Tawjihi exams.
Here is some information on each application from Y3.
Team Members
Ahmad Dumaidi, Fouad Turjman, Mayar Shanan, Saja Abuodeh
Description of Application DocTech's goal is to provide software that helps organize patients' medical information. The application is aimed at doctor's and hospitals.
Team Members
Ahmad Drawsheh, Ghada Issa, Kareem Awwad, Majd Barghouti, Rashiqa Ramahi
Description of Application Luchi is an application that allows community organizations to connect to young adults, providing access to greater activities for Palestinian youth.
Team Members
Ahmad Durra, Michel, Subhi Awwad, Tahseen Aliahmad (with help from Y2 student Amro)
Description of Application Wajhni is an application that aims to make studying for the tawjihi more accessible and effective for students through providing an online curriculum for students to study from.
I had a wonderful time teaching these amazing students. Special thanks to the PalTel Group for sponsoring this opportunity, Code.X for coordinating and organizing this, the staff for making the process so seamless in the West Bank, and my fellow Stanford coinstructors (special shoutout to Sydney Hutton and Cooper Raterink: my two partners in CS), who all worked so hard to make this whole experience magical for the students. Please feel free to add any other material or information to these groups, or add your own too!
