Help students break into tech as a Labs mentor!

(1-4 hours a week for 3-7 weeks, flexible schedule)
Students who attend affordable local colleges rely on internships to gain real-world skills and build a resume, but most companies focus their internships on brand-name schools. These talented students need someone like you to give them the chance to show what they can do.
Mentors guide a team of 3 students as they make a pull request to an open-source project in 3-7 weeks. CodeDay will assign your students an issue from one of our open-source partner projects. You lead the students through the engineering process as they design, implement, test, and commit their changes.
Like a manager in a job, you'll be there for supervision & guidance. Our staff will help students with day-to-day debugging if they need it!
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Next Session

We run sessions year-round. You can apply now and mentor in a future session if these dates don't work.

Mentor application due:

June 15

Mentor training:

~June 16

Student bootcamp:

(No mentor commitment)
June 29 — July 4

Mentored program:

July 6 — August 21

What mentors think of CodeDay Labs:

“I liked feeling part of something big. Seeing that the work my students were doing was going to be streamed live to this big audience, and put up on YouTube for perpetuity motivated me to push them to make something they could be really proud of. ”
Omar Shehata
Graphics Engineer, Cesium
CodeDay Labs Advanced-Track Mentor
“It was amazing learning about new students and their passion towards the field of Data Science. ”
Prithvi Shetty
Data Scientist, SAP Concur
CodeDay Labs Advanced-Track Mentor
“The best part was working with the team, they were self driven and excited to work and learn.”
Dustin Lindquist
Senior Software Engineer, Slack
CodeDay Labs Advanced-Track Mentor
“The students were just great: bright, enthusiastic, very serious about the work. I was a little worried that some of them might feel roped into the program somehow, but no, all of them treated it as an opportunity.”
Michael Lorton
Engineer, Outschool
CodeDay Labs Advanced-Track Mentor
“It was wonderful to work with motivated and passionate mentees.”
Apaar Sinha
Senior Software Engineer, LexisNexis Risk Solutions
CodeDay Labs Advanced-Track Mentor
“I got to see the students work and grow as they asked each other questions.”
Pranay Gupta
Engineer, Axon
CodeDay Labs Advanced-Track Mentor
“CodeDay Labs allowed me to get one of my many ideas to come to life, and it was exciting to see people learn as a result of this project.”
Shashank Sabniveesu
Senior Software Engineer, Broadridge
CodeDay Labs Advanced-Track Mentor
“I really didn't expect to get to know my mentees on such a close level.”
Emmett Chen-Ran
Product Manager, Salesforce
CodeDay Labs Advanced-Track Mentor
“I loved the connections to my mentees both on group calls and 1:1.”
Shakeel Mohamed
Engineer, Splunk
CodeDay Labs Advanced-Track Mentor
“The best part was watching the teams grow so quickly. Between weeks 2-3 I'm not exaggerating when I say my jaw dropped by how much everyone was able to go from not being sure how to apply what they know to having a good grasp of modern software development practices. ”
Eric Hui
Engineer, Nordstrom
CodeDay Labs Advanced-Track Mentor

Mentor Time Commitment

1-4hr/wk of mentorship over 3-7 weeks, with a flexible schedule:
  • 1-2 team meetings, per week:
    1-3 hours/week
  • Sharing performance feedback:
    ¼-hour/week
  • Three one-on-ones per student, total:
    ½-hour × 3 students × 3 meetings = 4½ hours

About CodeDay

CodeDay Labs is a program of CodeDay, an non-profit known for its in-person, hackathon-style events for high school and college students, and CodeDay Labs, its online internship-style experience. Since 2009, more than 55,000 students have attended CodeDay's events.

How students benefit

Through this internship-style experience, you're giving students their first sustained hands-on experience working with an industry professional. Project management, team work, communications, modern technical skills, and standard industry practices.