A note on the 2026 cohort
The 2026 Web & AI Bootcamp is for women and girls in Afghanistan. We’ve intentionally built the mentor pool around female mentors from Afghanistan and abroad so participants see what is possible — and have someone in the room who has navigated the path they are walking.
If you’re a working female developer interested in mentoring this cohort or future ones, we particularly need you. If you identify otherwise, you’re still warmly welcome to mentor — see below.
What mentoring looks like
Mentoring is a roughly two-hour weekly commitment, with a cohort-length minimum (twelve weeks for the 2026 program). The two hours typically break down as:
- One hour: 1:1 with a student. A scheduled call where you walk through their code, talk about what they are stuck on, and answer questions about the industry they’re trying to break into.
- One hour: cohort availability. You’re in the cohort’s chat during the week. When students post questions in your area of expertise, you weigh in. You might review a pull request or two.
You don’t run the curriculum. The instructors do that. Your job is the human-scale support that makes a curriculum stick.
Who we look for
- Working developers, ideally with at least 3 years of professional experience.
- Patience for “wait, what’s a closure?” questions. Some of our participants are weeks into their first programming language.
- Reliability. A weekly hour with a student matters more than a sporadic five hours. We need people who show up consistently for the length of a cohort.
- Cultural humility. Most of our participants are Afghan, often with very different lived experiences than the average mentor. Mentors who can listen and learn alongside teaching do the best work.
What we provide
- A short onboarding (about 90 minutes total) covering the curriculum, the cohort culture, and how the 1:1 sessions are structured.
- A community of other mentors. Most mentors say the side benefit they didn’t expect was meeting other engineers from outside their company.
- The most direct possible impact your spare hours can have on someone else’s life.
Apply to mentor
We recruit mentors before each cohort begins.
Email mentors@codeweekend.net — tell us your background, what languages and frameworks you’re strongest in, and how many hours a week you can give. We’ll respond within a few days.
If you want to talk to a current mentor before applying, say so in your email and we’ll connect you with someone in your area of expertise.