> The first is a mentor/mentee program we set up within the school. Employers tell us literally every day they want students who truly understand the development and release cycle, and work on teams. We created a mentor/mentee program where every student has a chance to do that, and the result of that program so clearly creates better outcomes that employers ask specifically for students who have done that.

One thing that jumps out at me is that students who have only just gone through the course themselves may not make the best mentors. They top x% percent probably make excellent mentors, but they rest still don't really know what they're doing themselves. You may want to actually build in some kind of assessment here and have mentoring as a "high performance track" (ideally with this being something the high-performing students can put on their resumes). I've seen this done very successfully in traditional schools (for children).