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Our interviewee, Isaac Griswold-Steiner, is a changemaker whose passion for software development and leadership qualities, has allowed him to become President of Texas Tech's Software Development Club (SDC) and land internships at innovative technical companies such as Microsoft and National Instruments. With his advice, we are able to give you an advice on how to teach students to build good software as a team.
== INTRODUCTION ==
== NEED AND GOAL ==
As President of Texas Tech's SDC, there are two main goals that Isaac focuses on:
#Making students more appealing to companies by working on projects outside of class
#Preparing students for the kinds of interviews they will face at big technology driven companies
While studying at Texas Tech, Isaac realized the education im<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">parted to the students was not a representation of what is actually demanded in the industries. For instance, the very basis for software developing lies in source control which was </span>taught as a part of syllabus during late years of education in college. Thus there is a difficulty in meeting the industrial standards, students aren't prepared and lack the skills required in an industry. Hence, with an aim to meet the industrial standards, he joined the existing Software Development Club of college. Different strategies like open ended contributions, structured layout for different teams in the club are applied with the ultimate aim of growing the passion of the students, create a student population which tries to seek information rather than stay contented with the redundant information fed to them in classes, and ultimately learns.