[Baypiggies] Baypiggies Digest, Vol 109, Issue 2

[Scott Garrison]

Peter,

I  work at AltSchool, a private K-8 school in SF, as as a backend
engineer.  We use Python for our Django backend and EmberJS for much of the
front end.  As of now our teachers use Scratch and a few other programs to
introduce programming to the students.  I haven't heard of any python being
utilized, although I've suggested iPython Notebook to many in our research
team and received quite a bit of enthusiasm.

I'll forward your information, but please get back to me with more
information about what you'd like to do.  We are building an "expert
network" for mentors and guest lecturers to enrich our classrooms.

Also, for anyone looking for employment, please contact me, or check out
AltSchool.com, as we are currently looking for more talented developers.
We are currently building tools for the teachers, our operations team along
with a variety of hardware (wearables and audio-video) for research
purposes.  As an engineer here, I've never been wanting for encouragement,
interesting and difficult work or a sense of worth.  All of the problems
that we are working on have immediate implications for the teachers,
students or parents involved with the school so there is a sense of
accomplishment that isn't always available in other start ups.

Cheers,
Scott Garrison  (longtime baypiggies lurker)

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> Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 12:37:15 -0800
> From: Peter Farrell <peter at farrellpolymath.com>
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> Hello, fellow BayPiggies!
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> I saw many of you when I spoke at an event last December on learning math
> and science using Python.
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> This video of Jessica McKellar <http://youtu.be/d1a4Jbjc-vU> speaking
> about
> the future of Python reminded me of the importance of getting the word out
> there about Python. I'd love to hear from anybody who's involved in an
> outreach program: getting Python into schools in the area (or out of the
> area).
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> If anybody knows of teachers wanting to be able to use Python in their math
> and science courses, I'd be excited to get involved! I have a half dozen or
> so laptops loaded with Python I can bring to a school (I know how wary they
> are of installing stuff on their computers) for some hands-on Python
> projects!
>
> I hold introductory Python programming classes on the Peninsula and I post
> videos of my STEAM-Python explorations on my YouTube channel
> <https://www.youtube.com/user/1houraweekmathclass/videos> for you to check
> out.
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> Hope to hear from you soon!
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> Peter Farrell
> www.farrellpolymath.com
> 650-430-6292
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