Co-Training & Mentoring at the Tech Chantier React Native Bootcamp

The bootcamp

Tech Chantier — a tech company and talent accelerator based in Buea, Cameroon — runs an intensive 3-month React & React Native developers bootcamp. I joined Cohort 4 as a Co-Trainer, helping teach the fundamentals and walk students through building real apps with React and React Native.

Three months of mentoring

Once the training phase wrapped, the program moved into mentorship — and that's where the real work happened. There were 5 mentors, and I was one of them, each responsible for 10 mentees over three months.

Mentoring people is humbling. Of my ten, three stepped away as life got in the way — but seven pushed through to the end. Watching them go from stuck-on-setup to shipping working features was easily the best part.

Demo Day

For the finale, every mentor put forward 3 candidates from their group to compete for the prize and present at Demo Day. I picked my three strongest — and when the results came in, both the 1st and 2nd place winners came from my team.

Demo Day itself was amazing: real projects, nervous pitches, and a room full of people who'd grown a lot in three months. Proud isn't a strong enough word.

The certificate

At the close of the program, Tech Chantier handed each of us a Certificate of Appreciation for serving as a Co-Trainer & Mentor across the three months.

Teaching forced me to sharpen my own fundamentals, and mentoring taught me patience and how to meet people where they are. Seeing my mentees take the top two spots was the kind of win that means more than any I could have claimed for myself — and a part of my journey I'll always be proud of.