🏆 Milestones & History
Summer 2025: PD Mentorship Program
- Delivered the IDEA Web Ring initiative through 1-hour weekly professional development mentorship sessions.
- Voluntary student engagement: Students participated outside required coursework to build coding skills and creative portfolios.
- Teaching methodology prototype: Developed and tested a project-based approach to web development education.
Fall 2025
- Apsara and Taylore expressed interest in forming an official IDEA Coding Club, marking the transition from individual mentorship to collaborative community.
- Implemented automated navigation system across all member sites, enabling seamless exploration of the growing web ring.
October 2025 - Recent Development Activity
- Technical improvements: Enhanced web ring navigation, added view counters to all active sites, created learning resources page, improved CSS organization.
- Community growth: Expanded GitHub Discussions for collaboration and launched comprehensive learning resources.
🚀 Roadmap: What's Next
Winter 2026 - Scaling Through Curriculum
- IXD 108 Integration: Web ring becomes a required component of Coding for Designers, ensuring consistent student participation.
- Curriculum validation: Testing whether structured coursework can build sustainable coding community.
Spring & Summer 2026
- Summer Coding Mentorship launches April 28, 2026 on Zoom for all BDes and IxD students across all years and sessions.
- Meetings will be held 1 hour per week to support hands-on learning and digital portfolio development.
- Introduction of badges and tiers to celebrate student progress within the web ring.