Using the effort of academic projects for the Community Service: A Software Engineering practical approach
Jakeline Marcos-Abed · 2016
Work in Progress. Many of our students in the Bachelor in Computer Science start working when they are sophomores. By the time they are senior students, they have already learned different computer languages and technologies and have developed skills that are very well appreciated in the labor market. Tomorrow, the best companies will hire these students with a good salary. So, why not use their knowledge for the common good today? Many academic projects require too much effort from students, and at the end of the semester all this work is thrown away. The main achievement of this approach is to establish a win-win relationship between students from two different courses and social organizations, where students learn more, sharing their knowledge and practicing with real-life projects and team roles, and at the same time, users benefit from products developed.