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Learn through Open Source
Red Hat Summer Camp Brno
Juri Solovjov
Software Quality Engineer
jsolovjo@redhat.com
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Yuliia Kliuchnykova
Associate Project Manager - Technical
ykliuchn@redhat.com
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● Motivation
● Project Goals
● Project Introduction
● What we learned
● Q&A
What we’ll be discussing today

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Motivation

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“We believe that people
is the best investment”

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of students are not
confident in their career path
when they enroll in
universities
51%
of students change their
major at least once
>50%
university students wish they
had chosen a different major
2 in 3
of students feel
overwhelmed by the process
of selecting a major
2/3
● Source:
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20191014005009/en/New-Survey-Student-Confusion-Selecting-Majors-Increases-Higher-Educa
tion-Cost-and-Time-to-Earn-Degree
International Student Survey
Statistics

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Project Goals

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Project Goals
Key aspects
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Learn key aspects of modern
application design and
development
Explore IT
Make students familiar with
Red Hat people, culture and
Open Source
Community
and make students
confident in choosing a
major
Help understand the
preferences
Introduce the IT world to
high school students
Develop young talents

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Project Introduction

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What is the Red Hat Summer Camp Brno?
It is a two-week IT camp for high school
students to learn more about work culture at
Red Hat, Open Source values, modern
technologies and meet new people.

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Project Introduction
Soft Skills
Hard Skills
Projects
Concept

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▸ Open Source way
▸ Creativity workshop
▸ Soft Skills
▸ Communication workshop
▸ Project Management
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Soft Skills
Project Introduction

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▸ Command Line Interface (CLI)
▸ Git
▸ UI/UX
▸ Coding in Ruby
▸ Diversity of Programming Languages
▸ Computer Art
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Hard Skills
Project Introduction

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Projects
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Students have to find all potential
issues in small code snippets and
applications, fix them and submit the
changes using git
Application
Fix Code
Students have to come up with an idea
of application, work on project
initiation/business plan, create a
prototype and try to sell the idea to
“investors”
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Students have to solve various social
and environmental issues representing
a given role (e.g. government, students,
non-profit organizations, etc.)

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Red Hat Summer Camp Brno 2022
Project Introduction

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What we learned

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What we learned
Students
● There are more talented students in high schools than you
could expect
● The conscious approach of students to the choice
● Consider students as your potential colleagues
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What we learned
Project Organization
● If you think there is still a lot of time - it's an illusion
● More people involved - more action items are taken
● Keep in mind all legal requirements when dealing with
underage students
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Feel free to reach us out any time
Thank you
Juri Solovjov
Software Quality Engineer
jsolovjo@redhat.com
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Yuliia Kliuchnykova
Associate Project Manager - Technical
ykliuchn@redhat.com
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