Diversity Starts at the Kitchen Table: Six-Year-Old Girls Learning to Code, Deploy, Release and Iterate

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@davekarow Diversity Starts at the Kitchen Table Six-Year-Old Girls Learning to Code, Deploy, Release and Iterate

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@davekarow Creating a More Diverse Workforce Requires a Different Sort of Pipeline

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@davekarow Make coding more tangible. ● Tech Curiosity ● Sense Of Mastery

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@davekarow Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana

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@davekarow Credit Where Credit Due! Angie Jones @techgirl1908

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@davekarow Angie’s Talk: Coding Future Coders

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@davekarow

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@davekarow Angie Asks: What’s up with the ladies?

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@davekarow

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@davekarow WTH?

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@davekarow

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@davekarow Blameless Postmortem + Next Action

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@davekarow This is my world

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@davekarow $65 Kit micro:bit & Integrated Parts

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@davekarow Small Batch Sizes Limiting WIP Fast Cycle Time

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@davekarow Frequent Deploys

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@davekarow Inputs, outputs make sense to her! Rotating board “kicks” the ball:

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@davekarow Happy 6 Year-Old She learned she could: ● Code ● Deploy ● Test ● Iterate ...until the software & hardware did what she wanted it to.

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@davekarow ● $65 Kit ● Docs ● Editors

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@davekarow DevOps as a teaching strategy: who knew? Please Steal This Idea!