Women Techmakers St. Louis Launch

On Thursday, October 6th, I finally launched the Women Techmakers group in St. Louis!  Women Techmakers is an international group started by Megan Smith when she worked at Google.  Women Read More …

Swiftly Create a Mobile App

It all started when Crystal Martin, the diversity director of the Strangeloop conference, said something about getting more accessibly talks and workshops at Strangeloop.  I wanted to do a conference Read More …

The CTO of the United States

I’ve been struggling to write a comprehensive post of the Grace Hopper conference (GHC) that I went to in October.  It was an action-packed three days followed by a day Read More …

Roy Clay Sr. Web Development and Entrepreneurship

A couple months ago, I saw a couple of my friends tweet about the graduation of the first cohort of the Roy Clay Sr. Web Development and Entrepreneurship workshop.  The Read More …

Software Carpentry in Hawaii

I got to go to Hawaii to teach a Software Carpentry class!  Hawaii.  How cool is that?!  Apparently, three other people declined to go to Hawaii, and I got asked Read More …

Intro to Programming with Girl Develop It!

A couple months ago, one of my coworkers approached another coworker Helena and me about starting up a chapter of Girl Develop It in St. Louis. We got together and Read More …

Science outreach!

My favorite part about grad school is mentoring and outreach.  Today, I got to co-lead an outreach session with a group of third graders.  We talked about using computers to Read More …