App Development Mentor

Summary

Join SureStart as a part-time, remote App Development Mentor for a 6-week AI program from July 1st to August 8th, 2025. This paid opportunity (12-15 hours/week, $35-40/hr) involves mentoring high school or early college students in app development using MIT's AppInventor platform. Mentors will work in teams, guiding students through daily meetings, project development, and troubleshooting. The program provides training in AppInventor and effective mentorship. Successful candidates will possess strong communication and teamwork skills, a passion for teaching, and relevant educational background or experience. This role offers valuable professional development opportunities and networking.

Requirements

• Currently enrolled or recent graduates from Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related fields
• Passionate about teaching and mentoring younger students; especially invested in mentoring students from underserved backgrounds in science and technology
• Or have current/recent experience with middle or high-school school STEM teaching
• Excellent communication, time-management and teamwork skills
• Able to commit to 12-15 hours per week from July 1st through August 8th, 2025
• Able to commit to AppInventor Training from 12:30-5:30PM ET from June 18-30th
• Mentoring Across Differences training from 5:00-6:30PM on June 9-11th. Please note all training hours will be compensated

Responsibilities

• As part of a two-mentor team, train, support and encourage a small group of ten to twelve students as they develop App development skills and AI intuitions using the provided AppInventor curriculum
• Day-to-day, interact with your group of trainees through daily meetings
• Help them use those skills to build a larger project to complete the program
• Keep your group accountable for finishing their prior day's tasks
• Help unblock them when they are stuck by pointing them to resources, showing them how to debug code and/or giving them helpful hints to discover the answer on their own

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with front-end design, app design, and/or UI/UX development
• Experience with AppInventor, Scratch or other block-based programming

Benefits

• You will deepen your technical skills (look up 'protege effect')
• Work on exciting, challenging and incredibly rewarding work critical to the future of ethical AI
• Build up your CV with fantastic leadership and team management experience
• Get trained in mentorship and professional skills, including communication, self-branding, entrepreneurship, equitable leadership, and more
• Attend technical skills talks by industry professionals
• Be an integral part of an impactful movement towards opportunity equity in tech and AI
• Valuable networking opportunities with industry leaders within enterprise, tech and academia