Helping overlooked and underserved students launch their tech careers
Mentors in Tech (MinT)
What we do
Mentors in Tech is a career focused mentorship program that helps overlooked and underserved tech students at smaller, less well known, accessible and affordable universities and community college baccalaureate programs navigate and launch their careers through:
- Personal, high touch, and structured yearlong industry mentorship.
- Class embedded industry mentor led Open Source capstone projects.
- Tailored recruiting and support services that help employers hire students.
75%+ of MinT program graduates accept a tech role within 6 months after graduation with an average salary of $95,000.
MinT helps 50% more students land jobs in half the time. MinT alumni in tech roles on average earns ~$4 million more in their lifetime than their previous occupations.
MinT provides accessible pathways to the middle class for IT / CS students with unique strengths, previous work experiences, and a wide range of lived backgrounds. The majority of students we serve are those especially the furthest away from opportunities in tech and where economic mobility has the most impact on their lives.
Read about MinT in Geekwire, Clayton Christensen Institute, Microsoft Alumni News, and Community College Baccalaureate Association. MinT is a 2023 Geekwire Geeks Give Back Award winner. Read our ACM SIGCSE paper: Industry Mentoring and Internship Experiences at a Community College Baccalaureate Program in Software Development.
Hire our students
MinT works with partner colleges in WA, CA, and NY and their 4-year bachelor CS programs. We have a large diverse tech student talent pool that can meet a wide range of needs and many different types of roles in tech.
We have a tailored tech recruiting service that will partner with you every step of the recruiting process and help you find the talent that your organization is looking for.
Partner with us on student capstone projects
The MinT industry / OSS capstone project is low cost, low overhead, high impact alternative / complementary program to traditional summer internship programs for employers who want to work with overlooked nontraditional tech students from small colleges on a project managed by MinT staff and college faculty.
Through the projects, companies will be able to discover the unique strengths and abilities of our students.
MinT industry capstone projects
MinT mentor info session
Partner colleges and organizations
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