Workshop Instructor Guidelines

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Guidelines For a Good Workshop at HackRVA


  • Workshops should usually be a hands-on or practical outcome driven event (lecture-only style doesn't work well - if you want to give a talk, cool - that's different thing though and should be presented as a talk).
  • Workshops should have something started (preferably completed) by the end or at least a skill transfer.
  • Workshops seem to do best around 2-3 hours.
  • Workshops tend to be on Saturday or Sunday from/between 10am-1pm (they can start earlier or later, but can't go beyond 1pm on weekends - those are freehack times). Weeknights can also work.
  • Limit the number of attendees to a reasonable amount. About 10 seems to be an upper limit for most things.
  • Consider tool limitations as well - wood working tends to only be 5 people because we don't have duplicates of most wood tools.
  • HackRVA will cover the cost of materials and experienced people can help decide a price on the class.
  • A more experience member can help you get started on meetup.com. It's not hard, but doesn't hurt.
  • Be clear and bounded on what you're going to do in your description on meetup as well as the workshop itself.
  • Drop some good links in your meetup.com event for people to get a little pre-workshop knowledge.
  • Specify clearly on Meetup any software that needs to be pre-loaded on the students' computers, with links, to save time on installations (unless installing is tricky or part of the class.)
  • Free is a great price for a workshop at hackrva. But we also offer 70/30 split with teacher/space on a case-by-case basis. If you're interested in this teaching option, let someone at hack know and we'll talk about that.

These are all just guidelines - some we pretty much always follow, but we're open to experimentation. If you have a unique idea, let someone at HackRVA know, and we can probably work out something.