Talk: The Magic of Mentorship: I want to become Dumbledor

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Title:	The Magic of Mentorship: I want to become Dumbledor
Short synopsis:	I, solemnly swear that I am up and ready for mentoring! Many of today's students are unsure of where they want to go in tech, I want to inspire and show how mentorship is not only useful for a student but the teacher also. Follow my journey of how I became a mentor using Agile practices such as retrospectives, user stories and the importance of respecting a client's opinions. Finding potential talent is hard but after mentoring it is easier to find the talent in younger generations. Max size: 500 chars
Long synopsis (optional):	I solemnly swear that I am up to no good - I mean - that I am up and ready for mentoring! Mentoring is a huge part of my upbringing in the tech community, from 'Mission to Mars' attendee to day-to-day work as an apprentice I find that I am mentoring and being mentored in many ways. Like myself, many of today’s students are unsure of where they want to go in the future and during my spell casting talk, I want to inspire and show how mentorship is not only useful for a student but the teacher also. This process of learning while teaching is a side effect of the spellbinding Agile workflow. The workflow is simple: 1. students need help, 2. we offer help, 3. we realise we need more knowledge, 4. we learn through prototyping, 5. we mentor the students iteratively by releasing small working knowledge into their workflow for them to test, 6. they then ask a question and the workflow begins again. Follow my journey of how I became a mentor using Agile practices such as:  retrospectives on how the students felt and how, as a mentor, I could improve after a session  teaching students about user stories and the importance of respecting a client’s opinion/requirements  small iterations. Abiding by Agile methodologies in my day to day life ensures I practice what I preach. A short week-long course that is structured with small daily releases of information allows the students to follow and explore different techniques on how to problem solve. Rather than showing them how to brew the potions, you give them the recipe and allow them to learn with the safety of a mentor beside them. This trial and error process is where the iterations of knowledge come in to play, seeing the different ways students react to the problem helps as a mentor to see that, in fact, there was another way of solving the issue that you hadn’t of thought. Finding talent is hard but after mentoring it is easier to find the talent in younger generations. Go smash it in the mentoring game! Max size: 5000 chars
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