IT Club Openings

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Triangle Creative Education Foundation (TCEF) is a 503(c) non-profit organization. Our mission is:

“To provide the cutting edge computer science learning opportunities to our K-12 school students by leveraging the intelligent resources in our RTP communities.“

The American’s STEM education, including Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, are left behind among the most advanced countries. Our science education mostly focuses on biology, chemistry and physics. It is time for Computer Science to be seen as a core science in STEM. However in our current K-12 system we don’t have enough qualified computer science teachers to catch up with the fast development of the computer technologies. Therefore our computer science education in K-12 schools is very outdated and not available to every student.

Research Triangle Park (RTP) is one of the smartest areas in the U.S. We have top universities, top national IT companies in RTP. More than 50% of population in RTP has bachelor’s degree.

Therefore, the solution to our education problems is not at school. It is in our smartest and kindest communities. It is in your hands!  Please join our TCEF’s IT Club as a teacher, a coach or a class projector creator. Together, we can make American’s K-12 education great again!

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TCEF’s IT Club Position Types:

  • Teacher: Teaching a class. Most of our classes are online. Therefore a teacher can teach a class from anywhere.
  • Coach: Our coach manage a study group of 3-6 students. Coach does not teach, instead, our coaches are the assistants of teachers. Coaches help students for their problems. A coach is usually required to meet the study group either online or face to face to make sure no students are left behind.
  • Project Developer: In our IT Club, we use project based teaching and just in time learning.  Class project developer help us develop computer science projects and tutorials that uses the latest computer technologies, and also suitable for middle and high school students.

Volunteers are welcome! However, although we are a non-profit organization, as a way to say thank you, we can give certain compensations to our teachers, coaches and developers for their hard work and contributions to our communities. The compensation is on par with other non-profit weekend schools.

Overview of openings:

 

3D Printing Teachers

Description:

25% in class teaching and 75% online teaching.

Teach 3D printing with TinkerCAD or any other CAD software that are available to our students. This is for K-4 and above students. There are totally 10 – 12 lessons. The classroom lessons will be in the weekend at west Cary and the online lessons can be either at weekday evening or weekend. Teachers can stay at home to host the online class.

We already have the TinkerCAD tutorial which includes slides and video demos. The teacher can use the tutorial or make his/her own teaching materials.

Requirements:

  • The candidates should love and enjoy teaching kids, want to be their friends and have the ability to make complicated things easy to understand by kids.
  • The candidates should familiar with at least one 3D modeling/Designing software. Knowledge of TinkerCAD is a plus but not required.
  • The candidates should have the enough knowledge and experience on 3D printing.

 

WordPress Tutors

Description

  • Teach Website design by using WordPress for K-6 and above students.There are totally 8 lessons. Each lesson is 1-1.5 hour. The class will cover using WordPress themes, creating pages, posts, photo and video galleries, contact forms and using plugins.
  • This class is 100% online. Therefore teachers can stay at home using the online teaching tool for the lesson.
  • We already have the teaching materials. Students will be split into small groups to work on a website hosted on our server. Volunteer parents with IT background will help managing the student for the project.

Requirements:

  • The candidates should love and enjoy teaching kids, want to be their friends and have the abilities to make complicate concepts easy to understand by kids.
  • The candidates should have Intermediate level knowledge of WordPress. Have experience using WordPress to build websites.

 

Computer Vision with OpenCV Python Teachers, coaches and Project Developers

Description:

Teach K-8 and up students OpenCV in Python for basic image processing, basic object recognition and tracking techniques. The class will focus on using the OpenCV as a tool set to solve problems by letting students learn from the OpenCV example projects for image processing and object recognition. The details of the fundamental theory of image processing will not be covered in this class.

75% of this class will be given online at weekend. The teacher can stay at home to teach the class. 

Currently we do not have the class tutorials. Therefore the teacher and the TCEF technical team will work together to develop the teaching materials (slides and code examples).

Requirements:

  • The candidates should love and enjoy teaching kids, want to be their friends and have the abilities to make complicate concepts easy to understand by kids.
  • Intermediate to advanced level knowledge of OpenCV. Have at least one year of extensive experience of OpenCV.
  • Knowing of Python is a big plus.

 

Artificial Intelligence Teachers, Coaches, and Developers

Description:

Develop artificial intelligence and machine learning projects for K-8 and above students. For example, Image recognition using Google Tensor Flow.

Requirements:

  • The candidates should love and enjoy teaching kids, want to be their friends and have the abilities to make complicate concepts easy to understand by kids.
  • Intermediate to advanced level knowledge of Tensor Flow or other AI frameworks. Have at least one year of extensive experience of using an AI framework.

 

MIT App Inventor 2 Tutors

Description

Teach K-7 and above kids making Android mobile Apps by using MIT App Inventor 2. 75% of the teaching will be online using our online teaching tool. Therefore the teacher can teach from anywhere.

MIT App Inventor already has very good tutorial books. The teacher will follow the book,do the demo and answer questions in the classes.

Requirements

  • The candidates should love and enjoy teaching kids, want to be their friends and have the abilities to make complicate concepts easy to understand by kids.
  • Having extensive experience of using MIT App Inventor 2 or wanting to learn and be the master of MIT App Inventor 2

 

IoT Class, Project Developers, Teachers and Coaches

Description:

Do you like to build the Arduino/Particle/Raspberry Pi projects for fun? We are planning to develop micro-computer projects for smart homes, self driving cars, drones or anything fun! If you know either Arduino, Particle or Raspberry Pi, please join us. Let’s develop projects for our students together.

Requirements:

  • Have the passion of building things and share with others
  • Extensive hands on experience on micro computers such as Arduino or Raspberry Pi, sensors, motors and electronic circuits.
  • Every handy on building electronic projects

 

Windows Computers (basic and advanced levels) Teachers

Description:

Teach students how to use a windows machine.

Requirements:

  • The candidates should love and enjoy teaching kids, want to be their friends and have the abilities to make complicate concepts easy to understand by kids.
  • Having extensive experience of using Windows computers. Basic level class including file management, Internet browser, Word processing and presentation, image editing with Windows “Paint”, and Windows system/files backup/restore. Advanced level class including computer hardware components, desktop computer assembly and hardware upgrade, driver installation. windows command prompt, and some basic knowledge of Linux.

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