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.

Guests

• Jeanne Boyarsky
  - Twitter @jeanneboyarsky
  - https://www.selikoff.net
  - Mastodon @jeanneboyarsky
• Monica Beckwith
  - Twitter @mon_beck
• Igor De Souza
  - Twitter @Igfasouza

Podcast host

• Frank Delporte
  - Mastodon @frankdelporte
  - Twitter @FrankDelporte

Content

• 00’00 Intro
• 00’43 Introduction of the guests
• 03’00 What is First?
  - First Inspires
  - FRC Robot reveal
  - FLL Events
  - Televic Smarties at FLL
• 06’43 What is CoderDojo?
• 07’46 Impact on your career by volunteering
• 09’00 Impact of these organizations on STEM education
  - Scratch
• 14’00 The rule of three
  - Code Chica
• 16’48 Girls-only events
• 24’13 What we learn from volunteering for our job
  - Microbit
• 28’16 Technology that can inspire the most
  - Particle
  - Onshape
• 36’09 Participants becoming coach
• 37’58 Java on small platforms like Raspberry Pi
  - LCD Display
  - Potentiometer
  - Micronaut
  - Quarkus
  - Book #JavaOnRaspberryPi
• 43'39 Java in education
• 47’15 STEM versus STEAM
  - Nervous Jessica
• 53’37 Other interesting STEAM topics
  - Coolest Projects
  - Formula Pi
  - Pi Wars
  - Astro Pi
  - First Inspires
  - CoderDojo
  - Code.org
  - Documentation drive of CoderDojo Belgium
  - Microsoft TEALS
• 59’45 Outro

Originally published at https://foojay.io on May 15, 2023.