Summer 2025 TA - Intro to VR (in-person at Meta HQ)

About Mission Bit

Mission Bit is a San Francisco-based nonprofit that inspires youth of color to explore the world of STEM with project-based computer science education that embraces their identities. We offer a variety of hands-on STEM education programs, including semester-long introductory coding courses.

This class is in partnership with Meta's Youth Summer Academy hosted at the Meta HQ in Menlo Park, CA.

The role

As a TA with us, you'll promote a welcoming and supportive class community, foster productive collaboration, track student progress, and help students realize their potential.

We're proud to provide training to all instructional staff to prepare them to teach, along with ongoing support throughout the semester!

If you have a passion for community, social justice, and coding, and if you want to uplift Bay Area youth and bridge the tech divide, then this might be the opportunity for you!

This is a seasonal, semester-based, hybrid role based in the San Francisco Bay Area. It requires approximately 16 hours per week from May 29 to August 6, 2025.

Schedule

Instructor Training

• Live training (for instructors of in-person classes): Thursday, June 12, 10:00-2:30 in San Francisco, CA
• In addition to the live training session(s), staff are required to complete :8 hours of self-paced training. All staff are required to complete and attend the trainings
  
  
  

Class Dates

• June 16, 2025 - July 25, 2025
• Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 9:45 AM - 2:45 PM
  
  
  

Weekly Meetings

• 1-hour weekly meetings with the instructional team on Mondays, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM over Zoom
  
  
  

Additional dates:

• Demo Day: TBD
• End-of-semester meeting: 30 minutes between August 4, 2025 to August 8, 2025
  
  
  

Hours

• 16 /- hours per week
  
  
  

Location

• in-person at Meta HQ (1 Hacker Wy, Menlo Park, CA 94025)
  
  

What you'll be doing:

70% Community building, classroom management, and student support

• Create an inclusive and community-based classroom culture surrounding the Mission Bit core values of social justice, community, accountability, smart risks, and love
• Plan and lead community-building games and activities
• Foster individual and meaningful relationships with students
• Promote positive, productive collaboration between students
• Ensure students receive the support they need throughout the course to effectively and confidently showcase a capstone project at our Demo Day
• Effectively manage classroom behavior to foster a productive learning environment for all students
• Lead class in the event the lead instructor is out
  
  
  

20% Professional collaboration

• Attend weekly staff meetings
• Communicate and collaborate with Lead Instructor and other instructional staff
  
  
  

10% Communication

• Communicate course progress to students and their families
• Communicate student progress and success throughout the course to the Program Staff so we can collectively support students' learning
  
  
  

Requirements

We'd love to hear from you if you...

• Have experience in Game Design/Development, Unity, C#, and Virtual Reality
• Have values aligned with Mission Bit and a passion for supporting youth
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills; comfortable and compelling in public speaking situations
• Have experience working with a diverse group of individuals
• Are self-starting with the ability to effectively work autonomously with little oversight
  
  
  

It's not required, but it's a nice bonus if you...

• Have experience working with youth, especially in an educational setting
• Have experience in project-based learning, asset-based teaching, and/or culturally relevant teaching
• Are bilingual in Spanish, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Arabic, Tagalog, or Samoan
  
  
  

Benefits

• Accrued sick time-off
  
  

Pay

• $25.00 / hour
  
  

Mission Bit is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, familial status, domestic violence victim status, veteran or military status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.