Here's the TEALS abstract for Joe's community track. As previously discussed this is not a "usual" ApacheCon session so I would like to work with LF to promote this important session a little. I'll wait until the programme is published before starting to think about that though.
Title: Volunteer to Teach High School CS Without Quitting Your Day Job Talk Abstract: How do we solve the problem of shortage software engineers and lack of CS courses in American high schools? Roll up your sleeves and do something about it! Come and learn how you can help solve this problem. TEALS (Technology Education And Literacy in Schools) is a grassroots program that recruits, trains, mentors, and places high tech professionals from across the country who are passionate about computer science education into high school classes as volunteer teachers in a team teaching model where the school district is unable to meet their students’ CS needs on its own. TEALS works with committed partner schools and classroom teachers to eventually hand off the CS courses to the classroom teachers. The school will then be able to maintain and grow a sustainable CS program on their own. Speaker Bio: Kevin Wang, Founder & Ringleader Kevin has an undergrad in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley and a graduate degree in Education from Harvard University. He built and taught a 7-12 Computer Science curriculum for three years at a San Francisco Bay Area high school and additional years part time at a local Seattle area school, robotics summer camp, after school at the Community Charter School of Cambridge, and online at UMass Boston. He was a member of the MIT Teacher Education Program’s StarLogo programming language team, where he published a paper on kids programming games using a block programming language. Kevin was also an engineering fellow specializing in knowledge transfer at Lockheed Martin and Toyota. Kevin was a software engineer in the Microsoft Office 365 group when he founded TEALS in 2009. Kevin spends what little of his free time trying to not be outsmarted by his Shetland sheepdog while watching British panel quiz shows. -----Original Message----- From: Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 12:51 PM To: dev@community.apache.org Subject: RE: ApacheCon Schedule I can't comment on the time (I haven't put anything on the spreadsheet). I am awaiting an abstract & title. I'll ping them right now. If nothing here by Sunday I'll write something myself. Ross -----Original Message----- From: Rich Bowen [mailto:rbo...@rcbowen.com] Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 12:45 PM To: dev@community.apache.org Subject: Re: ApacheCon Schedule So, do I understand that we're scheduling a TEALS talk in the 4pm slot on Monday, and you will provide a title and abstract soonish? I'm putting that in the grid now. LF says they'll get to actual scheduling Monday, so we need that by Sunday if possible. Thanks. On 02/19/2015 03:54 PM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) wrote: > Yep, I'll get it ASAP and share here. > > Ross > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joe Brockmeier [mailto:j...@zonker.net] > Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 3:48 PM > To: dev@community.apache.org > Subject: Re: ApacheCon Schedule > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2015, at 08:12 AM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) wrote: >> I can fill that community track with the TEALS session that we >> previously discussed. I owe details of that to Joe as track chair, >> I'll send under separate cover shortly. If we don't want that one >> there are a couple I can point to that I like. > > Yeah, I like that session idea. Will you get an abstract/bio from your > contact with TEALS? +1 from me. > > Best, > > jzb > -- > Joe Brockmeier > j...@zonker.net > Twitter: @jzb > http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ > -- Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon
