Community Orientation

The community orientation challenges are required for all students in the program. By the end of the challenge, you will have:

  • Set an intention for next 5 weeks
  • Built your first squad project
  • Understood the tools you will use for class

Demo video

Instructions

  • These challenges are best done on a computer
  • The challenge should take you 60 - 90 minutes to complete
  • The feedback form at the end of this page indicates that you have completed the challenge. You must submit the feedback form to receive credit for attending orientation.
  • If you have questions or need help, post a question in the #help Discord channel

Let’s see who can finish all the challenges the quickest! 🏁

Ready?

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Challenge 0: All onboard - meet your squad ⛰️

Description: Join your squad channel, introduce yourself, and pick a scribe

  1. Log in to Discord, under the Squad channels category, you will find your squad e.g., 'Squad #'
  2. Join the voice channel and post a message in the chat introducing yourself e.g., "Hello, My name is Emmy from Lagos, Nigeria"

Wait for other Squad members to join and introduce themselves. After all squad members have posted a message and joined the squad voice channel:

  1. Pick a "scribe". Your scribe will act as the moderator and will be in charge of creating/sharing links, sharing screens, and asking questions that your squad might have in the #help channel.
  2. All squad members will remain in the Squad voice channel throughout the community orientation.

Completion criteria: Every squad member has sent a message in the squad chat, has joined the voice channel and your squad has a scribe.

Challenge 1: Letter from the future ✉️✍🏾

Description: Imagine it's week 5 of Try Kibo. Write a message to your present self in the padlet below. Describe how you will work to make sure you successfully complete the program. Every team member should post a message.

  • Click on the + sign
  • Enter your first name and last initial in the "Subject"
  • Write your intention
  • Add an image or GIF to accompany your message (optional)
  • Click "Publish"

Completion criteria: Every squad member has posted an intention in the padlet

Challenge 2: Build Team Info Program👩🏾‍💻

Description: In this challenge, you will build a site in Replit with info about your team. Every team member should still be on the Squad voice channel

  1. Your scribe should share their screen
  2. While sharing screen, the team scribe should go to the replit team for the Future Proof with Python class, and create a replit group for today's challenge

Watch the video below to see how to do this.

NB: If you can't find the replit team for your program on Replit, this means that you have not joined the replit team yet! Join here here

  1. Once your scribe has created a group, everyone needs to go and join that same group. Everyone should log in to Replit , navigate to "teams", find "Try Kibo 10: Future Proof with Python", find the group that your scribe just created.

NB: DO NOT create another group or join a different group erroneously! Ask your scribe for their replit name, and find it amongst the groups. See video demo on how to join the repl your scribe created below.

Once all team members have joined the repl that your scribe created, you will discuss and write your program in your repl as a team.

  1. The program should use print to display the following information:
  • Your Squad name
  • One thing that everyone in the squad has in common
  • For each team member, add:
    • First name and last initial (e.g., Mercy W, Osamudiamen O)
    • One-sentence biography
    • Why you are learning python

In the end, your program should look similar to this example program

Once the Team Info Program is done, ensure all team members have a link to the info program - you will all submit that link in the next challenge.

Completion criteria: Every squad member’s information is on the program and it prints successfully

Challenge 3: Submitting the feedback form

Description: Submit the feedback form below indicating that you have completed the challenge. If you do not submit the feedback form, it will be considered that you did not participate during the orientation.

  1. Each squad member should submit this form

  2. After each member has submitted the form above, your scribe should get the link to the website and share it in the #random channel saying "Squad # has completed all the challenges."

Once this is done, the community orientation leaderboard will be updated with your Squad name

Completion criteria: All squad members have submitted the feedback form and your scribe has sent a message in the #random channel saying you have completed all the challenges.

The End of Orientation

You’re done with orientation and ready to begin class. The Week 1 Lesson will be released on Monday, Oct 30.