Rina Henderson: I'm Rina Henderson. I'm a UX Designer. I work for CodeScience, based out of Chattanooga.

I get excited about the Center Centre program at the thought of formalized learning for stuff that I've had to encounter kind of on my own, out in the wild in a natural evolution through my career. Without someone leading the way or pioneering that way, your exposure happens at random. It seems. In my case it has. So you're not necessarily learning the things that build on each other sequentially.

Having projects that run five months long, that would feel like a proper engagement in the real world. And then getting to evolve in that project pulling from what they're learning, as they're learning it that's advantageous to see how a project actually would run. It's nice that you guys have a plan for guiding students through the process and that they're actually producing something so they can see what that process looks like. But also how that will inform development, an actual development team. 

Center Centre did not exist when I discovered what UX was, I just happened upon it. I started out as a graphic designer. Eventually taught myself how to code and then became concerned with semantics and best practices. Somehow that led to UX, and this idea, and all of a sudden this world opened up. 

So I've been scrapping together based on a natural discovery process so yes, I wish I had a more organized approach by pioneers.