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 # Cohort Timeline
 
-| Week | CB 🌻 | W1 | W2 | W3 | W4 | W5 | W6 | W7 | W8 | W9 | W10 | W11 | W12 |
+| Week | CB 🌻 | W1 💡 | W2 | W3 💡 | W4 | W5 💡 | W6 | W7 💡 | W8 | W9 💡 | W10 | W11 💡 | W12 |
 |--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|
 | Aashish |--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|
 | Nityam |--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|
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 # W1 - W12 Weekly Expectations
 
+* **Cohort check-ins every other Thursday at 11am ET**, starting May 28st, 2026. In the timeline above, each week marked with "💡" has a cohort meeting. All contributors are encouraged to attend, and mentors are welcome when they can! These will be structured around giving more in-depth project updates to the others in the cohort for support and feedback.
 * Update the cohort timeline. Each cell can be: a link (e.g., something you want feedback on, or a technical documentation you're currently reading, a [gist](https://gist.github.com/) or draft PR describing something you're struggling with), a p5.js sketch, or some emojis ⛅🦎🪨 
 * Check the updates others in the cohort are making! Check **at least one link** shared by someone else / leave **at least one comment/feedback**.
 * Highly encouraged: Be active in one of the online community spaces (GitHub repo(s), Discord Server, or [Discourse Forum](https://discourse.processing.org/)) and reply to a discussion / leave a review comment / help debug a sketch.