30.08.2018
| Here are few important notes:
30.08.2018
| the time has come...
❗The Google Developer Scholarship is officially OVER!❗
We want to congratulate everyone who managed to pass all the projects on time! WOHOOO!!! YOU DID IT!!!🎉🎉🎉
This is not goodbye yet! We will still be here posting important news, announcements, and keep the fire burning!
21.08.2018
| There are 8 days left until the end of the scholarship! So let’s make most out of it! 💪
Here are 4 tips on how to correctly ask for help. They are coming from your motivation-ninjas – scholarship grads who are helping you here on Slack (big BRAVO to them for doing this). The closer you stick to these tips, the higher chances you will get help.
❗Share your repository! DO NOT just share your screen, console log output on screens, or only few lines of code. A screenshot with an error and the title "any idea what's wrong!?" is not helpful to anyone wanting to help out.
❗Provide FULL context! Tell others what are you doing, what you did, what worked and what didn't. Others need full context to assess what is happening/going wrong. Without it they often waste a lot of time on figuring out what is the actual problem.
❗Make sure your repository is updated to the current state.
❗After you implement the tips you received from another student, LET HIM/HER know how it worked! We know implementing changes takes time, but then do not forget to get back to a student who helped you. They spent their private time on this, so at least tell them if their answer worked for you:)
You posted a question in live-help channel 6 hs ago and still nobody answered it? It might be that people just don’t know, nobody is online, but also, it might be that people just did not understand your problem.
And whereas there’s not much you can do in 1st and 2nd case, you can DEFINITELY do a lot about the last one!
20.08.2018
| Happy Monday! We have some exciting news to share!
The news about the awesome Student Projects Showcase page created by a group of our scholars reached all the way to US. Udacity team got SO excited about the idea of sharing your amazing work with the world, that they have decided to create a similar page on udacity.com. Wohoooo!!!
Show us what you got!!
17.08.2018
| And here it is! 🎉
We've just uploaded the FULL recording from the entire FEND Breakfast Club Study Jam session held last Saturday, August 11, 2018. You can find it now on Tech Webinars page. Enjoy!
16.08.2018
| As you know, at Udacity we are all committed to preparing job seeking students for the realities of the interview process.
And that is why, on behalf of Udacity’s Careers Team, we are happy to introduce you to Mobile Flashcards – Udacity’s newest feature for the Android App that helps you improve your interview skills anytime, anywhere!
The app will help you practice technical and behavioral interview questions on your phone. Download the app and access over 30 interview questions, sourced by Udacity staff and employers, to help you solidify knowledge from your Nanodegree program and ace your next interview. Though not available yet on iOS, it will be coming soon.
Have comments, questions or feedback you would like to share? Send them via email at career-support@udacity.com. We are looking for feedback on a few things, including:
16.08.2018
| We've just uploaded YouTube two project walkthrough webinars that took place during Breakfast Club study jam:
You can also find them in Tech Webinars section of our google site! Enjoy!
14.08.2018
| Another day another set of updates:
#motivation-ninjas
slack channel and get more info there.13.08.2018
| Who is ready for party? 🎉
On September 8 we are having a Graduation Party in Berlin! The event is organised by students, and it's the first (and surely not the last) fully international meetup organised for all the scholars.
You can expect few talks from our key speakers, Scrapbook signing, games, and also few surprises for students who cannot join us physically in Berlin.
Who will be there? Everyone!! Magda, Joanna, Jose, slack mentors, and of course YOU – the students!!!
For details go to our brand new Graduation Party page!
10.08.2018
| Get ready for our Breakfast Club Study Jam TOMORROW!!
But how it's gonna work? It's simple! You will join a ND-specific Zoom meeting room (aka "Detention") to work on the project for 4 hours. Everyone in the room will be muted so you can all focus on your work. If you have a question or a blocker that comes up while you learn, you can:
More details in our brand new funky Breakfast Club Study Jam page!
This Study Session takes its cues from the 1985 John Hughes movie, the "Breakfast Club" - a movie about five high school who students meet in Saturday detention.
So get amped and grab your 80's wear. It's going to be a totally tubular time!!
09.08.2018
| Additional info for students who already graduated: 👩🎓
09.08.2018
| ❗WE EXTENDED THE SCHOLARSHIP DEADLINE!!!!❗
The recent issues with mentorship combined with a truly fascinating community spirit you ALL showed in the face of these unexpected and sudden difficulties, seeing how you all started helping each other even more, pushing one anther and being ONE BIG FAMILY truly deserved a proof of appreciation and acknowledgement. So here it is. We hope these two additional weeks will help you. You make us proud, and you inspire us! YOU CAN DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!
08.08.2018
| We are changing the format of AMA sessions:
From now on until the end of the scholarship, the AMA sessions will not happen regularly, as they used to.
From now on you can just ask any question directly in #ama-sessions
Slack channel and one of the Community Managers will get back to you within 24hs with the answer. Ask your question whenever you want. No need to wait for the AMA session anymore.
We hope this way you will be able move away from your blockers and get everything you need to know faster! 💪
08.08.2018
| And here's an update on Slack!
Since some of you asked, here's the official information: The Scholarship Slack will be open until Dec 31,2018! So you can keep using it until then! Especially during the Career Month! Please note though that Community Managers will become inactive there at some point.
08.08.2018
| Here's the official update about the Mentorship Services:
"As you may know, our Mentorship platform chat function has been down for a few days. This issue arose due to technical issues with the vendor that provides the messaging infrastructure. We apologize for this situation and we are working hard on a good solution to support your continued progress in our platform. Towards this end, we have been building our own, in-house infrastructure to power a new, stronger model of mentorship, called Study Groups.
The mentorship team is working on transitioning your classmates and you over to this new updated Mentorship model. Some of you may have already been switched over and received update emails from the team. We are working on switching everyone over and you will receive an email from us in the coming days with more information about study groups. Please feel free to reach out to magda.udacity or @Joanna.Udacity on Slack with any questions in the meantime!"
"Study Groups are hosted directly in your classroom and have a laser focus on student progress and project completion. Chat channels are organized by project, which you unlock as you pass projects. In every project channel you will find Mentors in each channel who are also active Reviewers for the project, as well as your classmates who are working on or have already passed that project. Your new Study Group will be an immersive, 24/7 help experience where multiple Mentors and students help push each other to the finish line and accomplish their goals."
Few tips on using Study Groups:
07.08.2018
| Happy Tuesday everyone! 😎
Some of you ask about the graduation stats. We will be able to share more closer to the end of the program, but what we can tell you is that almost 1/3 students already graduated. So if you are still working on the projects, keep your head up – you are in the majority :)
But to give you a little push and inspiration, here are some quotes from students who graduated:))
(source: Google Dev Facebook Group)
Here's also 10 hours of Rocky Theme to get you motivated. So no excuses anymore!!
03.08.2018
| Hi ya'll!
If you haven't had the chance to see @LaurenM’s Facebook post, please take a look at this great project she and her fellow scholars @mpontus, @Oya, @Alifelongbeginner, @Greta Gr abnd and @Cedric F have created. From @LaurenM:
"Check out this beautiful website to showcase the work of all of us here. The idea is to show what we (as a community) have achieved in those 9 months. The rule is: each student get to showcase 1 Udacity project:
It is hosted on GitHub pages, so it means that we all contribute to it as a community as each of us can add our own project through a pull request. Please note that only Udacity projects will be accepted. We have to set some rules here :)"
If you've graduated and would like to have your project featured here, just follow the instructions. There's a template at the top of the file where you'll need add your data. As easy as that!