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Applications for Spring 2024 have now closed.

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We seek to empower students by providing CS education and mentorship to under-resourced schools and marginalized communities. Interested in education or mentorship? If yes, we think you’d be right at home with ANova (and no CS experience is re
Have a great summer, and congratulations to ANova’s Class of 2023—we’ll miss you 🥹!
As we move into the fall semester, let's recognize the second half of our incredible Spring 2023 officer board 🤩🔥
We had our annual hackathon, ANova Hacks, a few weeks ago, and we would like to thank Vontive for helping support our efforts.
Meet the first half of our incredible officer team! ✌🏽
here’s a recap of what we’ve been up to last month! we… • welcomed 18 new, beautiful anewbies 🥹 • had our new member orientation 😎 • had our semesterly retreat! 🎉 • and so much more 🫶🏼
meet our spring 2023 exec team! 🤩 they work day and night to drive ANova forward and bring our org to new heights. swipe through to find out more about who they are →
Support ANova through UC Berkeley’s annual Big Give which starts TONIGHT, 3/8, at 9 PM PST and runs until 9 PM tomorrow! ✨ Support our mission of making computer science education more accessible by donating at tinyurl.com/anova-bc-2023 or vis
 
 

FAQs

  • ANova is a student organization that seeks to empower students by providing computer science education and mentorship to under-resourced schools and marginalized communities. Our mentors develop individualized curriculum to teach at each of our middle and high school sites around the East Bay, with the goal of increasing equitable exposure and accessibility to the tech space.

    We visit our partner schools on a weekly basis to mentor students and teach a project-based CS afterschool program. We also host ANova Hacks: a 24-hour hackathon for high school students with little to no programming experience. Over the course of the day, students work in teams to design and code an innovative idea aiming to solve real-world problems.

  • No, you don’t need any CS experience to join — as long as you’re willing to put in the time to learn! We encourage mentors of all majors, disciplines, and backgrounds to join our mentorship community. Many ANova members are not CS/EECS majors.

    Keep in mind many of the students we encounter at site are new to coding. This means that much of the computer science concepts we teach are beginner-friendly.

  • Every member goes to site and is part of a committee.

    Sites: 1 site visit × 2 hours/site = 2 hours/week

    Site prep: 30min/week

    Committee: 2-4 hours/week

    General Meetings (Tuesdays 7-8 PM): 1 hour/week

    The approximate total time commitment for an active member is 5.5 - 7.5 hours a week.

  • You can express interest in any committee that sparks your interest — read more about our committees here — but this will not factored into your application.

    Your preference for committees will only be taken into account after you get into the club! All new members will be entered into a committee-matching process that will last the first few weeks. You can change your committee every semester.

  • Sites are the partner schools that we visit each week. You can find the full list of sites here.

  • Nope! Content at both info sessions are the same, so feel free to attend whichever one works better with your schedule.