Foojay Podcast #22: When Profession and Fun Overlap
Let’s talk about programming for fun. Grab your Lego and robots, and let’s talk about STEM and STEAM!
As a developer, we all get frustrated occasionally when a bug messes up our schedule, and we have to dive deep into the code to find a solution.
But still, many of us keep coding in our free time as we love to do it and want to create amazing stuff.
In this episode of the Foojay Podcast, we talk to volunteers from different organizations where coding is used to inspire children to become engineers or at least learn to make good use of computers and the tools around them.
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Guests
- Jeanne Boyarsky
- Monica Beckwith
- Igor De Souza
Content
- 00'00 Intro
- 00'43 Introduction of the guests
- 03'00 What is First?
- 06'43 What is CoderDojo?
- 07'46 Impact on your career by volunteering
- 09'00 Impact of these organizations on STEM education
- 14'00 The rule of three
- 16'48 Girls-only events
- 24'13 What we learn from volunteering for our job
- 28'16 Technology that can inspire the most
- 36'09 Participants becoming coach
- 37'58 Java on small platforms like Raspberry Pi
- 43'39 Java in education
- 47'15 STEM versus STEAM
- 53'37 Other interesting STEAM topics
- 59'45 Outro
Frank Delporte
Frank Delporte is a Java Champion, Java Developer, Senior Technical Writer at Azul, Blogger, Author of "Java Programming for Raspberry Pi - A Hands-On Guide to Electronics and IoT Projects", and Open-Source Contributor for Pi4J, Lottie4J, MelodyMatrix,... …
Igor De Souza
Igor currently works as a Software Engineer in a Data Engineer team. With over 20 years of experience with Java and over 10 years in the Big Data world, Igor had the opportunity to work with Hadoop and its ecosystem right when Hadoop was created. In his spare …