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Survivors and descendants of those who were forced out of their Palm Springs community in the 60s recently filed a lawsuit for reparations. We hear from one of the plaintiffs who now lives in Oakland. Then, in preparation for this weekend's Makers Faire, we learn about the lost art of steam power. Plus, a trailer for the newest season of Uncuffed.

Mark Mathias, founder and president of Remarkable STEAM, tells how Connecticut's Makers Faire is elevating Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics, while boosting the economy, elevating STEAM in schools, and creating space for community and global connection and innovation.   Resources: Unreal Engine from Epic Games Mark Mathias on LinkedIn The Great Duck Project View the Great Duck & ducklings The Connecticut Maker Faire   Episode Transcript (electronically generated): Unreal Engine by Epic Games[00:00:00] This episode of the EdCuration podcast is sponsored by Unreal Engine unreal, online. Learning is a free learning platform that offers Hands-On video courses and guided learning paths. For more than two decades. Unreal Engine has evolved to become the most advanced real-time 3D creation tool for photo-real visuals and immersive experiences looking to learn more. You can find Unreal Engine at EdCuration.com Kristi Hemingway: [00:00:50] Mark, Mathias is a Career Information Technology executive who has lived and worked all over the world. He is the founder and the president of Remarkable STEAM, which is Connecticut's leader in promoting innovation, technology, engineering arts and Mathematics, but before hearing all about Remarkable STEAM, I just wanted to know a little bit about marks history, with and passion for education.    Mark Mathias: [00:01:30] I have a kind of a family history and education. My father was a college professor. My mother worked at University. My stepmother was a college professor. And I did corporate training for a number of years for large computer companies. And, and then when I moved to this town here in Connecticut, Westport, my wife and I wanted to get involved with the community. And so I said, well, I've got a background education. Why not run for the Board of Education.    Kristi Hemingway: [00:01:54] Mark won a seat on the school board and served for four-year terms. That's 16 years for the right-brainers listening before. Retiring about two years ago and while he was on the board of education Mark and his two children attended the world Maker Faire in New York.    Mark Mathias: [00:02:11] I had a couple of Brothers in California that had told me about an event in California called The Maker Faire. And they said, Mark, you'd love to be there and you see it. You should fly out to California to be part of this event. I said, I'm not going to fly to California for this, but then when it came to New York, and so I took my two kids there, they were like 7 and 14 at the time and they had so much fun and they didn't know they were learning.   Kristi Hemingway: [00:02:31] I don't know about you, but I've never been to a makers fair. I didn't really have a clear picture. What happens at a makers Fair.   Mark Mathias: [00:02:38] They had somebody that had made a bicycle with a jet engine on it. They had a swing set that had sprinklers on it where when you use it was swinging. It would turn the sprinklers on and off. Just all these really fun crazy things. And I said to myself, you know, there's so many kids here in Connecticut, that we'll never make it to this event in New York. Mark, we should bring it to Connecticut.   Kristi Hemingway: [00:03:03] That's when Mark and a couple of friends decided to found Remarkable STEAM as the host and organizer of Connecticut's Makers Faire Maker Faire. Connecticut is now the northeast's largest and most impactful creativity and Innovation event. This event in fuses steam through the entire Community while also partnering with local schools,    Mark Mathias: [00:03:26] and we thought, if we can get you know, a lot of these kids just couldn't come to this event for free. And experience this fun of this craziness, that it would be good for them, just fun, but also academically. And so we said, if we can get 800 people to show up. That was our bar. That's what we set the bar. We get 800 people to show up, that's going to be our success and we put it together in about six months and we ended up having 2,200 people show up that first event and we decided Well, I guess we're going to do this again. We should really start  and create our own legal team. And so we created a Remarkable STEAM to primarily be the producer of what was originally known as the Westport mini Maker Faire and has since grown to be now Maker Faire, Connecticut.    Kristi Hemingway: [00:04:14] The makers Fair has continued to attract more people. Each year - 2020, which we'd all like to Simply erase and not only does it provide an opportunity for Artisans and innovators to display a network. It's having a lasting impact on the economy in Westport.   Mark Mathias: [00:04:31] Entrepreneurs have started to find each other that entrepreneurs a started companies have started to find investors and manufacturers and marketing firms and Distributors. And so we started off as being kind of this fun event. And now we're having a positive impact in numerous areas in our economy.    Kristi Hemingway: [00:04:53] So just out of curiosity. How hard is it to host A Makers Fair? Like  did it become your full-time job, then all of a sudden because it sounds like a lot of work..    Mark Mathias: [00:05:02] It is a lot of work. It takes us about six months to produce one up, until now. It's been a free event. So, everything we have to pay for all the facilities, the tents, the electrical, you know, generator is the police and fire protection, the marketing, the insurance, all that kind of stuff has to be paid for. And so, one of my primary jobs is to raise the money to pay for the event. We also have a team of about 50 members of, we call the, or the Maker Faire, organizing committee and of that 50 people about 12 of us be that like the core that I'd say and really about four people do most of the work, but a lot of that is getting the word out. The  real value is all of what we call makers or in more of a conference parlance the exhibitors, you know, we have to find them, we have to get on their schedule. We have to figure out where they are going to be. Some of them have done things that are dangerous, like they have Flames or they have noise or they're throwing things, and we have to make sure that those are all done safely.   Kristi Hemingway: [00:06:02] Mark proceeded to tell me about the mountain of bureaucracy. Inherent was such a circus of dangerous feeds.   Mark Mathias: [00:06:08] We have these things called marshmallow Shooters. You take PVC pipe, you cut them up, you put them together and then you put a miniature marshmallow in the thing and you blow it. Okay, like a little blow gun, we found that our insurance company would not insure for these mini marshmallow, these marshmallows Shooters because they were projectiles the point. It's lots of details. When people just show up to a festival or an event like this that are all taking care of that they never see and it's fun. It's exciting. But there's a lot of stuff that we have to make sure that we have food trucks. Toilets, you know, all those kinds of things. They have to be in a good place for people to actually have a good experience.   Kristi Hemingway: [00:06:50] I'm brimming with questions. You're just reminding me of my son's, one of his middle school projects, He created a potato cannon and he was the hit of the neighborhood and he ended up selling it on Craigslist or somewhere for a lot of money like  people wanted this potato cannon. It was amazing. And so I'm curious who are these makers? Are they people who have invented a thing and they want to sell the thing or who are they?    Mark Mathias: [00:07:22] It's a  lot of people, and we really try and encourage a broad spectrum. We typically have a section for what is typically called crafts, you know, people who have made things, whether it be they turn something on the lathe and make it out of wood or they photography or something like that, but we're not a craft fair or a craft show. What we like are people who we hadn't have a lot of students that will bring a project to say. I built this project in my science class. We love having kids that come. Just to show off what they've done in school and teachers like that too. Because in most schools, when you do something, you here's an assignment, you do the project, you turn it in. You get a grade, you move onto the next thing. What we're allowing is teachers and the students to work on a project that they can do it and then they can showcase it to the public. We had one student here in Connecticut that made a collapsible bow like a bow and And he made it a PVC pipe and hinges and things like that. It was not even associated with this school. We have one guy. He called himself the Concrete Cowboy and he makes concrete Furniture. A lot of it is people said would say I didn't know that you could do that. Yeah. All right, or or why would you do that? And what I loved about this is people said because it sounded like fun.    Kristi Hemingway: [00:08:47] One of the beautiful things about a Makers Faire Beyond just encouraging experimentation and Creativity is the way in which it Fosters and reinforces that growth mindset that we educators are talking about a lot. These days,    Mark Mathias: [00:09:01] one of the lessons that we like people to learn is that you fail, a lot, is that every project that might be a finished project has multiple steps along the way and especially if it's not something that's prescribed like in a classroom you go. Here's the rubric you have to do it this way and pretty much every kid's result is the same. We like it when people try something that they don't, if they can, do they stumble along the way, they try something that doesn't work. They have to try something else. And what's the beauty of it? Is, this is a human interaction. People. That attend the event, get to talk to people who did these things and they and the person says, you know, the attendee says, wow, that looks pretty fun. I'm the guy behind the, the, the table. So, yeah, it took me 18 months to make that on the versus really said. Yeah, this is the 12th iteration and maybe I'm not even done yet. Okay. Now that I'm at the 12th iteration, I have ideas for five more things. We like people to see that failure is part of a problem or challenges are part of the creative process. I find that a lot of people adults and youth. That  as soon as they run into a roadblock. They stop, they say this can't be done or I can't do it and we like them to meet people that have been in that exact situation. That have said, this is my 12th iteration of this.    Kristi Hemingway: [00:10:27] Mark had so many examples of this characteristic. The stick-to-itiveness and growth mindset of innovators, inventors and creators. These are the kinds of models. We really want to provide for our students. I feel like Mark and I could have talked all day.    Mark Mathias: [00:10:43] I'll take another one. We had a guy that put a jet engine on a go-kart and he built this jet engine in his garage, which is kind of a dangerous thing in and of itself. and of course it's noisy. As all get out jet engines, are not known for being quiet. But the idea was, this was a project that he had evolved over years for these young men, young man. He had to build the go-kart, then he had to build the jet engine. Then he had to get them to work together. He had to have a gas pedal and had to have good brakes, had to have fuel for it. And all of these things is not something you buy on Amazon. And so they we like to use these events as inspiration for youth to see things that they've never seen before. Leave you another example. We a couple years ago. We had the American Welding Society. Bring a tractor trailer that had virtual reality welding in it. So you'd put on the VR goggles, you hold this welding stick and then you would do things and it would demonstrate to you how to do arc welding, but there was no smoke. There was no metal, slag falling on your feet. And the idea is to encourage people to consider a career in welding. This is Workforce Development. Yeah. We're Getting people interested in being part of perhaps a career that they've never seen before.   Kristi Hemingway: [00:11:56] Since Mark mentioned Workforce Development. I just want a sidebar a minute here. Have you noticed that construction project seemed to stand unfinished for months and that it takes weeks to schedule a home repair of any kind. This is happening Nationwide according to a new analysis by people ready's skilled trades division. There were three hundred and eighty eight thousand, three hundred, and forty five jobs. Posted for skilled trades related workers between May and June of twenty Twenty-One and a fifty percent increase. From pre-pandemic levels with most positions remaining unfilled for an average of 24 days. The skilled trade industry was one of the few Industries to experience growth every single month throughout the pandemic. But the demand for workers is growing at a much faster, rate trades workers are retiring by the thousands and those positions are Our remaining unfilled graduates just aren't choosing skilled trades as professions as an example of this. The boat company that makes submarines for the US government approached Mark about presenting at the Makers Faire.    Mark Mathias: [00:13:05] I said, well, why are you here? I said, you looking to get people to work for you said? Yeah. I said are you targeting like college students is no. We're targeting. Middle School students. That are going to go through Middle School, High School, College University, and then come and work for them, but they have to plant the seeds now and they need to let people know that being a with the mechanic plumber or a pipefitter is a very good profession available to you right here in the state. And you need to plant that seed early so that when the students are looking for jobs and careers They'll remember. Hey, I could help make submarines from an academic standpoint educational standpoint, you know, to be a plumber or an electrician or something like that requires skills, that requires math skills, requires Hands-On skills requires all sorts of skills. That schools can give. And of course, if the academic part of it, the whole math and science things, but then there's the whole trade component which is how to work with your hands, how to work with tools, how to machine things, how to weld things, how to cut wood, how to What are structural components and it's so that the pointed there are opportunities for learning beyond the classroom and what we really try and do at our events is to expose people adults and children in areas that they might find interesting that they've not seen before. Hopefully, many of them will go back to the classroom and say, you know, I saw the Z. Now, I see where this applies. This. Yes, I'm taking in art or this class. I'm taking in music or this class. I'm taking a math or engineering. I can see where that can be applied in real life, which at least for me. And I've seen this happen as I've been. An educator is when, when the students see the path, they see how this is going to be applied. It makes that path. They're on much easier to Traverse and it leads to better outcomes.    Kristi Hemingway: [00:15:13] So Mark, do you? You just Remarkable STEAM, you're talking about the impact in the classroom. Do you partner with students in schools in an intentional way?   Mark Mathias: [00:15:24] We reach out to all academics. In fact, we will give any student by him or herself that has a project will give them a free Booth if they're just, they're showing off. This is what I did in my class or this is what I did on my own, we will give them a free Booth, sometimes the the district or the school will have a presence. At the at our event, sometimes just the students will this gives some of these more non-traditional classes that don't generally have the performance component to be able to take something that's in the classroom, and then show it on a larger stage.    Kristi Hemingway: [00:15:59] So a school who? that gets a booth. What are some of the things that the school might do with their Booth? What kinds of things are they showing?   Mark Mathias: [00:16:07] we had a whole bunch of things we had. I remember one time we had a group of students that came in. And they were growing different plants. So they brought the plants that they'd grown some actually brought some fruits and vegetables that come from their garden. And that's always an amazing thing when somebody actually grows food for the first time they did it. Absolutely is, we've had a lot of science. We've had the first robotics teams come and in our, in our geography, probably within about a 30-mile radius. We have about five or six, first robotics teams. So we've made a what's called a play Space which is essentially like a dance floor you know about a 20 by 20 foot Dance Floor. We put down the hard surface. And then they have these robots that they've been working on all year long and they have kind of competitions with each other. And, you know that typically, each team will have a table around the play space and they'll be working on tinkering their things. And of course, they'll put the robot out there and it'll go Bing and it won't work and they'll have to haul it back not to fix it and people will come and they'll say they'll see the people work in those robots in the go. They're my age. You know, I can do that. Yeah, and that's one of the big aha's is that this is not something that you bought from Amazon that you bring it home. You take out of the box, you do it. These are people just like me doing something that I would like to do or that looks like fun. And because it's in person and it's human which is very different than, you know, online, YouTube videos. You can actually go over and talk to this person and say and say, Ask, how did you do that? They'll tell you and they'll show you and maybe they'll just come be part of our team that happens all the time. The people in the booths, the makers become rock stars,    Unreal Engine by Epic Games: [00:18:02] integrating steam into cross, content learning can be so easy. And engaging with resources, from today's sponsor, Unreal Engine by Epic Games.  [00:18:12] Hi, my name is Steve Isaacs, and I'm the Education Manager at Epic Games. Our goal on the education team is to provide resources and professional development opportunities to bring interactive 3D into the classroom, with industry, standard tools, like Unreal, Engine twin motion, sketchfab and Fortnight creative visit, our education website at Unreal Engine.com, unreal - Futures to start your Learning Journey. You don't have to be an expert to teach with these tools. Let us help you get started.  [00:18:40] You'll also find Unreal Engine by Epic Games at EdCuration.com. On their profile page, you can request a demo, ask a question or all about the resources, save them to your dashboard and keep notes to help. You make decisions about the best resources to fit your population. Priorities and budget visit us at EdCuration today and now back to Mark    Mark Mathias: [00:19:03] I had a young man come to me one year. He could come to the event and seeing all the stuff. And he said mr. Matthias. I did this project in school, this year and next year Can I have a booth to show it off to my friends? He did. Yeah, it's like this. We've made a difference in this student's life. Yeah, he has something. He's proud of. We gave him a stage to show it off. We are giving these students these opportunities to be seen to be heard to be validated to be inspired, and bring, that's what motivates me.    Kristi Hemingway: [00:19:43] I mean, I can tell that you're extremely passionate about it. And it's so much fun to hear all the stories. I'm so you, and you've mentioned that it's a, it's an economic boost for the, for your area, for your town. It's it's there's you're partnering with schools and different ways. It's an opportunity obviously for the makers. What is the stated mission of the Maker Faire? Is it all of those things? The standout to do this.   Mark Mathias: [00:20:11] The stated mission of Remarkable STEAM, is to close the education Gap and create jobs. Got it. Okay, that's it. And that takes a lot of different forms.   Kristi Hemingway: [00:20:28] Mark, if you would talk to Educators for a minute about, because as you're describing the Maker Faire and the excitement around it and the motivation for learning, I'm feeling like, but why can't learning just Be like that all the time in school. So what can schools be doing to support More Steam, and Interactive Learning in Greater ways. What have you learned from The Maker Faire that we can take?    Mark Mathias: [00:20:57] Yeah. Well, I think what we've learned is that to your point. I think a lot of people are now encouraging more Hands-On learning, which takes place through effect. A lot of lot of schools now. Have more called maker spaces in them. That have a lot of tools that typically were part of the shop classes. Although things like 3D printers were never part of a shop class, but there are certainly good reasons why people can combine things. I give you an example. There was a class that was done. I believe it was actually what done here in Westport where they got the drama Department to work together With the art Department to lay out the sets. What are the sets going to be like, for our next  play and the art Department 3D printed. A lot of the things to create a stage for the drama Department to say, is this what you're looking for. So the students over here in the art Department, had to learn things like AutoCAD or some of the technical things to be able to design these things that could then be used on a 3D printer to print out the stage slope, when they showed them to the drama department. They said, yes, that's what we want or no. That's not what we want. So what we're finding and what I'm encouraging people to do is, as you're a teacher, try and engage other Educators in what your students are doing. So that what you're doing, applies to multiple courses.    Kristi Hemingway: [00:22:24] Yeah, so cross content learning and more collaboration. It sounds like    Mark Mathias: [00:22:27] exactly any a lot of places are already doing that. What I'm seeing is that there are a lot of new tools out there, and, of course the technological tools for collaboration or just, you know, blossoming left and right. Right, but what I'm finding is that the more you can get Hands-On things with the students, where they're actually creating things that are tangible, that are requiring them to collaborate with other students in other classes, or even different Grade levels really results in more motivation for the students and Higher Learning.    Kristi Hemingway: [00:23:10] Rubber Duckie, you're the one you make better 3D printing and cross content learning. One of my favorite stories that Mark shared from the Makers Faire was the great duck project. This was a global art and engineering project to create the world's largest 3D printed duck. They took a diagram of a bathtub duck. Blew it up to 6 Feet tall and added wall thickness. And then digitally, chopped it up into 476 individual pieces. People who signed up to participate received an email of an individual 3D printable file and they printed the parts and then mailed them back to Mark's Team people from more than a dozen countries participated. In fact, the interest was so great that they had to create ducklings to handle the Overflow. Each duckling was about a hundred and fifty additional. All pieces in all they completed the giant Duck, and three ducklings. There are links to the project and pictures of the Ducks being the episode notes. So much fun, and a great idea for a school hosted, Arts Engineering spin-off project. You talked about this, the importance of resilience and a growth mindset with in regards to failure. Can you expand on what you would consider the really important qualities and characteristics of a successful innovator. What have you observed?   Mark Mathias: [00:24:40] I do want to emphasize, failure is a necessary requirement of success. Now, add in fact, one of the things that there used to be a conference called like failures and was always people who got together, talk about their failures. That actually makes it very good topic for a stage where you have five or so people to talk about things that they did in their life that failed and it could be that they succeeded at the end of it. But the point is that people need to understand and celebrate failures. And I encourage teachers when they have a student struggling and they're having a problem. Talk about it in a way that says, hey, over here Johnny was the first one to fail. Atta boy, Johnny you know.    Kristi Hemingway: [00:25:32] good so good. You know, I mean, I think we all adopted that there was that failure is not an option from was it Apollo 13? Yeah, and we all adopted it as like, yes, this is our American catchphrase. And then we realized oh, wow, that's not really working for us and it needs to change to failure is not only an option. It's a necessity.   Mark Mathias: [00:25:53]  right? And going back to Apollo 13. They had a failure, right? And they didn't give up. Yeah. Okay, they brought the guys back safely. And, and that to me is the point is that just because something bad happens, doesn't mean you give up something, when something bad happens, you say, what am I going to do about it? And and again, I think a lot of people because there's some sort of a stigma of well, if I'm not good at it immediately then I don't want, I don't want to try And and we need to ensure that people say I am going to pursue and by having them have that start have that rough middle and then hopefully the success at the end they can talk about. Then they go. It doesn't have to be a man. I am a success because I persevered    Kristi Hemingway: [00:26:46] building that level of resilience and what Angela Duckworth she tells of grit in our students is, it's a huge challenge. I think we're all still trying to figure out because we're having to shift our learning environment, our culture, and our messages around, around failure. And I think a lot of it comes from our grading practices, you know, but that's, that's all another episode. So I do want to ask you one more thing if there's an educator listening and he was thinking, well, I can't start. I'm a, you know, full-time teacher. I can't start a Makers Faire in my town. I don't Have the capacity for that. But how might I start something like this? For my students or  in my school. What would be the first step? What advice could you give them?    Mark Mathias: [00:27:36] Well, first of all, I would say try it. Okay. It doesn't have to be a town-wide event, have it be something where during lunch one day, you put together a collection of 20 students that have worked on projects over the past three or four months. It's want to show it off. Okay, it can be somewhat ad. Hoc. You may or may not invite, you know people from outside the school, but this does not have to Be a big thing. We by radio and Internet advertising, you don't have to do that, make a few posters. Make some signs, have it be like it during lunch. Try it out, see how it's received by your students. And if there are perhaps other schools in your District, maybe the two middle schools, then maybe one day, you your students from your middle school, go to another Middle School to show that off. And you get that sort of Affirmation from the other other schools. The high school students. This is amazing. You get high school students to come to a middle school. The high school students can show off what they've been doing in high school to the middle school Kids. The middle school because I really want to go to high school because they do cool stuff.   Kristi Hemingway: [00:28:47] All right, it gives them. It makes it a lot less scary for them.   Mark Mathias: [00:28:52] It does. And again, this is not a big budget thing, doesn't have to be a big budget thing. It can be very low-key. And frankly. I would think that working even with the PTA. There are a lot of resources that can be tapped on a free level. And if you have two or three people coordinating, this it can happen very, very easily.    Unreal Engine by Epic Games: [00:29:15] You'll find links to connect with Mark, the Connecticut Makers, Faire website and the great duck project in the episode notes. And now that you're all jazzed up about cross content, learning, creativity, and steam. You'll definitely want to check out our sponsor, Unreal Engine by epic games. 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In this Episode, the guys talk about their experiences at Makers Faire and shopping at an Amazon Go store. Alex tells a time he bought something for a pornstar. Nick, Tommy, and Alex tell stories about getting hurt.

Through our partnership with the Coalition of Black Excellence founded by Angela J. we have the pleasure of sitting down with the founder and CEO of GIRL STEM STARS Kiwoba Allaire. Kiwoba sits down with us to discuss her exciting non-profit and its commitment to advancing young girls of color in STEM. We also promote CBE Week, an event designed to highlight excellence in the black community, connect black professionals across sectors, and provide opportunities for professional development and community engagement.Donate to GIRL STEM STARS today! http://www.girlstemstars.org/donate-todayFind out more about CBE/CBE Week! https://www.cbeweek.com/TRANSCRIPTZach: What's up, y'all? It's Zach, and listen, y'all. Living Corporate is partnering with the Coalition of Black Excellence, a non-profit organization based in California, in bringing a Special Speaker series to promote CBE Week, an annual week-long event designed to highlight excellence in the black community, connect black professionals across sectors, and provide opportunities for professional development and community engagement that will positively transform the black community. This is a special series where we will spotlight movers and shakers and leaders who will be speakers during CBE Week, and today, we have Kiwoba Allaire.Kiwoba: Hi, everyone.Zach: Kiwoba Allaire is the founder and CEO of GIRL STEM STARS and an executive business partner at Google. She is inspired and dedicated to helping young girls build successful futures in the tech industry. Kiwoba sits on local non-profit boards for the United Way, the Sheriff's Activities League, The Family Network, and Ronnie Lott's All Stars Helping Kids. Among her many accolades, Allaire was named one of the top 50 mufti-cultural leaders in technology by the Coalition Diversity Council, Women Worth Watching by Profiles in Diversity Journal, recipient of the Sistahs Rock Beyond the Limits Award, San Francisco Business Times’ Most Influential Woman, Forever Influential Woman, and Silicon Valley Business Times’ Most Influential Woman. Now, listen, y'all. We typically have air horns. We're gonna drop the air horns right here. She got all the badges. She's certified, y'all. She is here. Welcome to the show, Kiwoba. How are you doing?Kiwoba: Fantastic. Glad that the fires have subsided. God sent some rain, and we have blue skies. It's nice to be in California today, to say the least, you know?Zach: Absolutely. Well, no, definitely happy that you are--you and yours are safe and sound. So I know I gave our audience your profile in our intro, but do you have anything else you'd like for us to know about you?Kiwoba: I'm from San Francisco, born and raised, and I'm married. I have a wonderful husband named Patrick, and I have a little boy who's turning 5 next month, Christophe, and they are the love of my life. I have a, you know, great family. I'm blessed to be alive, you know? You'll know why when I say it--when I tell you later, but I am very grateful to be healthy and alive.Zach: Absolutely. You know, what do you--you know, we're gonna talk about Girl STEM Stars today and your background at Google and the work that you've done within your organization as well as your job and your career. What do you think are some of the biggest misconceptions when it comes to STEM?Kiwoba: I would say that there's no room for creativity in the STEM fields. There are creative STEM careers, such as working in virtual reality, Pixar, making movies, or music data journalists or NASA, Spotify, Electronic Arts. There are even fun activities that I like to do myself, which is, like, paragliding and scuba diving. When I'm flying in the air with my husband, there's a lot of STEM. Scuba diving? There's a lot of STEM on my back, keeping me alive under 100 feet of water, underwater, and I generally don't see people that look like myself doing any of these activities, you know? It's the same with, like, golf. I mean, look, there's only one--we have one really highlighted person of color, black man, playing golf, and there's a lot of STEM when it comes to golf when you think about it. You know, just--there's a lot of fun activities that I just don't see people that look like myself doing, and I like to highlight that to the girls at GIRL STEM STARS.Zach: No, that's so true, and I will say that for me, as someone who doesn't really have a STEM background, it is easy to think about STEM and say, "Okay, well, it's just Xs and Os, 1s and 0s." Very binary, right? Kiwoba: It's everything we do.Zach: Right.Kiwoba: Yeah, it's everything we do. Zach: Absolutely, and when you talk about it--even, you know, in just, like, makeup. Makeup. You need deodorant, and I'm just looking--and the reason I said makeup, I'm looking--I'm in my bedroom right now, and I'm looking at my wife's nightstand, and I see deodorant--and I see deodorant on my--you know, just cologne. You know, print design. Just all types of things that it's integral to. So what impact, to your point around not seeing a lot of us in the spaces that you engage for--that you engage recreationally, what impact do you believe you are making when black and brown girls see a black woman featured so prominently in STEM, in the STEM field?Kiwoba: Huge impact. You know, I've been on both sides of it. You know, when I worked at an AI--artificial intelligence--company, tech company, called Rocket Fuel, I was the director of global giving, so we wrote a lot of checks, but I--like, thinking, you know, we need to do more than just write checks to charities. We need to actually--me, as the only black woman at the company at the time, I need to be able to lift girls up, not just give hand-outs. So in the position that I was in there, you know, I was the only black female executive, and I had the opportunity to bring children to our campus. Gorgeous campus, you know? It had a big gym and Olympic swim pool, rock climbing wall, the whole nine yards, and a cafeteria. Great lawns. And the kids would come and they're like, "Wow. What do I have to learn to work in a place like this?" Or when I bring them to NASA. Because of, you know, my position in the community, I have people that reach out to me from NASA, from, you know, Google in the past, and Microsoft, Yahoo. They reach out to me and say, "Hey, we want your girls to come." We bring them--we've had a relationship with NASA for the last five years, and some of the parents and the mothers will come as chaperones, and they start to cry. They're like, "Oh, my God. I didn't know anything like this existed." So being able to be in a position to lift girls up into what it looks like to work at a STEM--at a tech company, it blows their minds. Literally. I could imagine--I remember when we took them to Yahoo, and I had a bus to pick them up. Took them out to--I wanted to kind of give them a cultural experience. I took them out to dim sum. They loved it. And, you know, keep in mind, these girls are coming from either homeless shelters or they're coming from deep, deep in the unrepresented communities where, you know, some of the girls are--they live in a flat, an apartment, with 10 other people, and one bathroom, one bedroom, you know? Some of the girls are from very violent neighborhoods, right? So for them--you know, some of the parents are incarcerated. I remember one of the girls who was on the bus got a call from her father, who was in jail, in prison. So just getting them out of their community, one, giving them a good meal, and then I've got them now, or--[inaudible] I've got their attention, and then, you know, to step foot onto, like, the Yahoo campus. They literally all went, "*gasps*". Like, "This must be what Disney Land must look like." I'm like, "Yeah. Yeah, it is," you know? And then they're like, "Ooh, look, there's some cute Asian boys over there." [inaudible]. And, you know, they come inside to the lobby and they see all the gadgets, and they're given gift bags and t-shirts, and they're like, "Okay, I'll make sure to give this t-shirt back at the end of the day." I'm like, "No, sweetie. That's for you." They're like, "*gasps* This new t-shirt is for me?" 'Cause some of these girls haven't had a new piece of anything all of their lives, right? And then when we get the ERGs, which is--Zach: Employee resource groups?Zach: Employee resource groups, exactly. When we get, like, the black networks and, you know, all the females--the female engineers coming, or I have--when we're at NASA, I have the black female rocket scientists come and speak to them. They're just like, "*gasps* Oh, my God." You know? When we're on the bus, I'll ask them "What do you want to be like when you grow up," you know? And they're like, "Ooh, I want to be like Beyonce," or I want to be, you know, "a dancer in a video," and at the end of the day they'll be like, "Ooh, I want to be like that pretty black rocket scientist. I want to be like her." I've had congresswoman Jackie Speier come, and I think that's actually one of your questions, so I'll go ahead and let you ask it.Zach: [laughs] Well, first of all, this is great, and we don't have to have--we can freestyle it too, but this is good. I'm curious, really kind of talking about the program a little bit more, can you give us the origin story? Like, what was the motivation behind it? And where in you building GIRL STEM STARS did you realize how big of an impact it was making?Kiwoba: Okay, so I'll start with the first question. And, you know, I'm Christian, so it's okay, right?Zach: Absolutely, yeah. Go ahead.Kiwoba: Okay, great. Okay. So I--GIRL STEM STARS was born very organically. So I had to have an emergency surgery, and after that surgery I was told everything was fine, and two weeks later everything was not. I wound up passed out on my floor in our home, and my husband had to rush me to the emergency room, and all I remember them telling me was that "Call your family," and I'm like, "Why?" And they said, "Call your family, because your white blood cell count is off the charts." I don't remember anything after that but my husband telling me, after it's all said and done, that I had three absesces in my abdomen, and they had to do an emergency surgery to get them out. Supposedly, I woke up after all the surgery. I was in a normal room for two weeks, and I was holding court. I had my computer on my food tray, and I was having people come in from work and working, right? And I guess I was late working. It was, like, 3 in the morning, I was told, and I was talking to a nurse, and the next thing you know, all of my major body functions crashed at the same time. My heart, my liver, my lungs, my kidneys, everything crashed and, you know, they sent the crash cart, and my husband said they called him at 3 o'clock in the morning and said, "We have induced your wife into a coma because she's dying," and I was in a coma for about three--a little more than three weeks, and they figured out finally what was wrong with me. I had--we had some help. God sent--at the last moment, God sent some--all of the chiefs of surgery, the chief of pulmonary, some guy from Stanford, and then they finally figured out what was going on, and I was septic, and they had, like--had me on, like 10 IVs, and I was all, you know, needles everywhere, hoses and wires. So when I came out of it, my aunt--I was in ICU for over a month. When I finally got home, I couldn't walk. I had lost 50 pounds of body mass, and I'm a thin woman, so I couldn't afford to lose it. So I couldn't walk. Everybody carried me up three flights of stairs in our home and put me into bed, and my aunt came and visited me, and she's my prayer warrior. She's amazing, Auntie [inaudible], and she said, "Honey, you know that God sent his [inaudible] angels to save you, to keep you," 'cause my doctor said that I nearly died. I was 5 minutes from death three times. She says, you know, "That is God working hard. Those angels are--they're warring over you," and she said, "The devil tried to take you out, but I'm telling you right now that you were saved not to go back and work at that tech company--yes, you know, do your job, but you were saved for a greater purpose than just working at a tech company. You need to think and pray about what that greater purpose is, because you have a greater purpose on this earth." And I said okay, and I believed her, you know, after, you know, my cardiologist. The fact that I had a cardiologist was crazy because, you know, I was, like, a gym rat. I had a trainer. I was all [inaudible] up, you know, and, you know, for my cardiologist--she was an Asian lady that stood halfway up me, right? And she's screaming at me like, "You must take your medicine! Do you realize you were 5 minutes from death three times?" I'm like, "Okay, I guess I'll take the heart pills."Zach: Oh, my goodness gracious.Kiwoba: So yeah. I was intubated. You know, they had a tube down my throat for breathing and all of that. I was out out. So when I was home, you know, I was home for about three months, and I thought about, you know, "What is this greater purpose that I would--that I was saved for?" And I started to think about what bugs me the most, and then I realized, you know, I used to complain to HR and recruiting, "Please start hiring people that look like me. Stop hiring people that look like you." And, you know, being the only black woman there, I mean, it started to get kind of creepy, you know? I'm married to a Frenchman, a Caucasian guy, and, you know, if I didn't go to--if I didn't go to church or my parents' house, I didn't see anybody that looked like myself then, you know? Our [cert?] wasn't around then, you know? We live in--we live in an Asian neighborhood, so it's like, you know, "When do I get to see anyone that looks like me?" Right?Zach: Sure, yeah.Kiwoba: So then I realized, "Hey, instead of complaining about the situation, be the change you want to see," and I picked up the phone from my recovery bed and called LegalZoom and said, "I want to start a non-profit that advances girls of color in STEM," and--at first I said black girls, but then I--like, let's be a little more inclusive. Girls of color from underrepresented communities, and that's how GIRL STEM STARS was born, you know? It took me nearly dying to realize I had a greater purpose in me, and that greater purpose was to have an impact on the young girls in my community, and--you know, my bigger vision is to take it globally. Zach: So what was the moment, or did you have a specific moment in building GIRL STEM STARS, where you saw the impact and you realized how global and how major this could be?Kiwoba: Yes. When I was at Rocket Fuel, I--you know, the program was growing pretty, pretty big, and I had 100 girls, mostly black girls, but we had, you know, Pan-Pacific girls we had Pan-Asian girls. We also had Latinas and such, and we had a room of 100 girls in the same t-shirt, GIRL STEM STARS t-shirt, and we had little goodie bags, and we fed them breakfast. I had a black female rocket scientist come in and speak to them, and I remember--she's gorgeous. Her name is Aisha, Aisha Bowe, and she's amazing. You should interview her one day, and she said, "How much money do you think I make?" And the girls are like, "I don't know, $5,000?" You know, 'cause [inaudible] where they're coming from, right?Zach: Sure. And they're kids, like, you know? Yeah.Kiwoba: "No, higher. Higher." "10,000?" "No." "50,000?" "No. Higher, higher." She says, "I make over $100,000 a year," and the girls fell out of their chairs. They're like, "*gasps* Whoa. Wow. You must be a millionaire," you know? And I have all of my speakers bring in their pictures from when they were the age of the girls, which is between 8-18, but I prefer pictures, like, from when they're, like, 10 or something in pigtails, you know, doing sports or whatever, and then show them now, like, in different countries and then in their home and whatever, and their families, so they can really relate and--you know, so she'll say, "This was me when I was a little girl in pigtails, and this is me now, standing next to a celebrity," or whatever it is, right? And the girls are just, like, going, "Wow. Wow," you know? And then she talks about the type of work that she does. I had another lady come in and talk about how she's looking for water on Mars, and the girls were like, "Wow." Then I had--you know you've got them hooked, right? And then I had congresswoman Jackie Speier come in, and she is a mature woman, and she's Caucasian, and, you know, they had--you know, she had her security guards and everyone come in, and, you know, we had--I had the girls line up and clap when she came in, and they were mumbling to themselves, "What's this old white lady gonna have to say [inaudible]?"Zach: [laughs] That's so funny because that's so, like, true. That's so black. That's such an honest--[laughs]Kiwoba: And Jackie's my friend, right? And she's spoken for me many times, and I know she heard them, and she's like, "Uh-huh." "Okay." And I know I heard them. So Jackie and I are looking at each other and, you know, we wink at each other. So we get all the girls to sit down, and I don't remember if Jackie showed a picture of herself young. I don't remember, but she started off--and, you know, I introduced her, "Congresswoman Jackie Speier!" And she gets up there and she looks at them and she gets--everyone's quiet. She's quiet. She waits for the moment, and she goes--and she pumps her--she beats her chest, and she goes "I got shot up five times, left for dead overnight, nearly died," and they're like, "Ooh, here she comes. Okay. Okay. Okay." Then she said, "Then I got married, I got pregnant, and my husband got run over by a car on his bicycle at Golden Gate Park," and they were like, "Oh! Oh! Oh!" And they're like, "Okay." She got their attention. They're all at the tip of their chairs. She goes, "Now I'm gonna talk to you about adversity. Now I'm gonna tell you how I need to know STEM to run this constituency. I am a boss," and then she ends it with a picture of her and President Obama. The girls jump out of their chair and they're like, "Oh! Oh, man! Oh, man!" And I'm like, "Oh, my God." I had goosebumps going up my arms, and--so then, you know, at the end of the day--they all had little notebooks, and at the end of the day--and Jackie spoke forever. First, you know, her people were telling me, "Okay, you know, she's only got 30 minutes, okay?" "Only 30 minutes [inaudible]," and they were, like, frustrated. They were so frustrated. They were all spinning around in the hallway going, "What are we gonna do? [inaudible]." She was in her moment. She was in her element, right? So at the end I said, "Okay, now you told me what you want to be when you grow up. You wanted to be like Beyonce. You wanted to be, you know, a veterinarian so you can play with puppies, or you wanted to be a dancer in a music video. Now what do you want to be?" They're like, "I want to be like that badass congresswoman. Can I get her autograph?" They all run up, and they get in line to get an autograph from the badass congresswoman and take pictures with her and do selfies with her. We have just created a new STEM hero and icon in their lives. That's when I knew we were making an impact.Zach: So of course all of this is amazing, and really--in alignment with the story you just shared as well as when I'm looking at your content on your website--what I'm noticing, and what I'm really excited about, when I look at GIRL STEM STARS is that there is a clear effort and intention around making STEM practical and available for the girls that you're trying to reach, and I think for me coming up, when I thought about STEM, I would think about being, like, a scientist, or being some type of engineer. For me, those things were, like, as far away as being, like, an astronaut. Right? I was like, "Okay, how do I even do that?" When I would think about some of the math and things behind, it just seemed so far away, and I think, again, one thing kind of talking about the program, you all, you have these camps that I believe, again, kind of bring STEM to life and kind of bring it up close for the girls, and so I'm curious, do you have a favorite camp? Do any kind of stick out to you or anything of that nature?Kiwoba: Yes, NASA. NASA is one of the most mind-blowing camps that we have. The parents, you know, they fight to get on that list. We've been doing STEM camps with NASA for the last five years, and we're grateful to be invited every year, and we will get a busload of girls, 50 girls, every year. They're all from underrepresented communities, and some of the mothers to chaperone, and when we roll into NASA, we stop at the big front gate, and one of the engineers will get on, the one that invites us every year. He will give us a driving tour of NASA, and the girls are just--their faces and noses are pressed to the windows going, "Wow. Wow. This looks like a movie set, like a sci-fi movie," you know? They're all just blown away, and some of the--like, the mothers crying going, "I never knew anything like this even existed in the Bay Area." And then we will go to a big conference area, and we will meet the interns, the summer interns, and we usually have our teenagers do this camp, and it's all day from 7:30 in the morning until about 4:00 o'clock in the afternoon.Zach: Wow.Kiwoba: Yeah, and at first, you know, they're on the bus, and they're all tired, and I ask the same question: "What do you want to be when you grow up?" I tell you, Beyonce is famous. I mean, they always say Beyonce.Zach: She is beloved though, yeah.Kiwoba: I'm waiting to hear, like, Nicki Minaj. I don't know.Zach: Oh, no, no. I think Beyonce has--she has Nicki beat by a good mile or so.Kiwoba: Yeah, yeah. [laughs] So anyway, that's what they're saying on the bus, and I've got video of it too, you know? So when we get there, they all get into the conference room, we feed them breakfast, and they're--you know, they're tired. They're not used to being, you know, up that early in the morning, especially when they do these on Saturdays, you know? And I tell them, you know, you should congratulate yourselves, 'cause, you know, you're investing in your future, you know? You could be home like the other kids, watching cartoons and eating cereal, you know? You're here, you know, investing your future. And your parents, you know, thank you. And then a beautiful black woman with braids down her back comes in with a NASA jacket on, and they're all like, "Ooh." "She's pretty," you know? And she'll say, you know, "Hi, I'm Dr. Wendy, and I am a rocket scientist here at NASA," and they're like, "Ooh!" They're like, "Okay," and then the interns are all in their teens. They're, like, 16, 17, 18 years old, so the teenagers are seeing--will go from station to station. We probably hit by five different departments in NASA, and we also do breakout sessions, and we also [inaudible], and there was an engineer, a rocket scientist, that would take us--give us a tour, and we'd go around to these different locations. One could be drone testing. Another is a simulated space ship, where we can actually go in and see what it looks like to live in a space ship and touch things and hear what the interns are doing. They're creating little robots that fly in the air and bring tools to the astronauts. I mean, wow. Just amazing stuff, right? And there's other kids that are, you know, also working with rocket scientists to find water on Mars. That's a really big thing right now. Then we'll have a big--they host a big lunch, a big barbecue lunch, with a DJ, and the girls get out, and they dance, and they get--the black engineer group at NASA will come, and they'll dance with them, and they'll get to talk and get mentored by the black females at NASA, and at the end of the day of course, after Dr. Wendy will speak to us again and show videos, I'll say, "Okay, what do you want to be like when you grow up?" "I want to be like Dr. Wendy! I want to be like those other black women we were dancing with!" So I want them to have a real experience with these black female engineers and rocket scientists where they eat with them, they eat at NASA, they dance with people, they get to hear what they do, the type of work that they do, how they got to work they got to. So they're completely immersed in the environment, and, you know, it's like, "I did NASA." It's, like, you know, a major field trip to another country, to another world, really. Another world, because, you know, from their little perspective where they're coming from--some of these girls, like I mentioned before, you know, a flat or a homeless shelter--a flat with 10 people or a homeless shelter. This is--this is mind-blowing, and you see their little minds just go pop, and I'm like, "Yes, we got them." [laughs] Yeah, it's cool. It's really cool.Zach: It's easy to underestimate the value or the impact that that--outside looking in, what that has on a child. I remember for me, STEM wasn't really my background, Kiwoba, but it was music, and so for me, in middle school and high school, you know, I was one of the--one of the better players in Dallas, and I actually played in the Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra, and I was--Kiwoba: Very cool.Zach: Yeah, yeah, yeah, and so I was able to play with the orchestra. I was able to play at the [Meyerson?], which is, like, this big concert hall in Dallas, and it was great, and so--Kiwoba: That changes your world, right? That changes your whole world.Zach: Yeah. It changes your entire world, and then even like, you know, when I did some volunteer work where you have underrepresented kids come in who are--who come from poor backgrounds and they get to see your workplace, and they view the work site, and they see you. You know, they see somebody like me. I'm a young, black man, and I tell them I'm a manager or, you know, I just did this, that, and the third, and I travel every week. Just them seeing me and them asking, "So wait, you do this? You travel?" And it just blows--it changes their entire perspective, so that's incredible.Kiwoba: Yeah. I do the same thing. I bring the girls by my desk, you know, like at Google or, you know, wherever I was, at Rocket Fuel. I would give them a whole tour of the whole building, and they're looking around, and, like, "There's where the engineers work. See, there's accounting," and one of my friends--they hired another black woman, who was the head of accounting, and she'd come out in all her glory--you know, she wore beautiful clothes. She was stunning--she still is--and she's like, "So I'm the accounting part of this tech company," and, you know, "You have to know math to be able to be in accounting, but this is another way to get into a tech company," is through accounting. Then I would introduce them to the--you know, the head of marketing, who happened to be a female as well. Not of color. And the head of legal was female as well. The head of HR was female. So I would have them--we would go by each of their offices in their departments. She's like, "I'm the boss of this whole department." They're like, "*gasps* Wow." They can see the different departments in a tech company, right? So they meet, you know, everybody. The engineers, everyone. So that also allows them to see the different avenues into tech companies or into tech in general.Zach: You're right. Like, I think it is really is, when you think about STEM or when you hear the word STEM, rather, it's easy to go to, like, some scientist with a white lab coat and their sleeves rolled up, and they're, you know, pouring mixtures back and forth, and again, there's nothing wrong with that. There's nothing wrong with that, but it's much more far-reaching than that. Kind of going back to the top of our discussion, STEM is in every single thing we do. There's some version--there's some version in STEM in literally every single thing that we touch or interact with or think about, and I think to your point around having them see the various avenues of how it all intersects is really important. So where can people learn more about GIRL STEM STARS? And how can they support? Like, what are the various avenues and options they have to actually support your organization?Kiwoba: So they can go to GIRLSTEMSTARS.org. That is, you know, where the Donate button is. We really need donations because these camps are not cheap, you know? And I don't charge. I don't charge the parents at all. I've had parents from Google and, you know, from different tech companies try and have their kids come to my camp, to pay. They're like, "I'll pay you $300," you know, "for my kid to go to your all-day camps," and I'm like, "No." This is for kids that can't afford to go to fancy camps, right? Their parents can't afford to. So we want to continue to make the camps free for the girls, you know? That means paying for buses and food and all of that. T-shirts, you know? All day to keep a child all day long, you know? So donations are definitely how people can help. Please, please. Give monthly. A monthly donation has more impact than a one-time donation, but that's most definitely what we need to do.Zach: Well, so first of all, I don't want to--and I don't want to zoom past that part, because there's so many opportunities and things out there, but they're limited by economic barriers, right? Like, the fact that you're able to offer these programs for free. Not for a reduced cost, not for a discount, but for free to these families is so important, and it's one less excuse, you know? And it's a big deal when a parent gives up their child for a day, even if they're chaperoning them, to follow them--to allow them to go off from their direct care, and then to do that and then to ask them to give up something monetarily in a situation where they may not--they may not have the means to do so. So that's beautiful that you're able to do that, and we'll make sure to have the donation link in the show notes, and we'll direct folks to donate there. Now, this has been a great discussion, but before we go, I feel as if--I feel as if you have some more wisdom and some more jewels to share, so I'd like to ask if you have any parting words or shout-outs before we wrap up here.Kiwoba: I would say, you know, thank you, God, for saving my life, so that I can have this impact on girls around the world. Also, keep in mind that I'm trying to--GIRL STEM STARS isn't about getting girls just into tech companies, but we're also--you know, this is why our girls are from 8-18. We're also creating the future board members, the future decision-makers, the future entrepreneurs of the world, you know? And that--you know, we want to have our girls be in those higher seats that are making the decisions about the world, about, you know, starting their own tech companies maybe. Starting whatever. Being entrepreneurs, right? And we're trying to give them that entrepreneurial mindset that you are in control, you know? That these kids, they can make a decision to say, "Okay, I can watch cartoons in the morning, or I can go to a GIRL STEM STARS camp at NASA," right? So giving them the opportunity, picking them up with a bus, feeding them, doing this all day long with them, it literally changes their whole world. I've had parents constantly sending me emails going that one trip changed their whole daughter's perspective on life, and she's starting--you know, her grades are better. She knows that--she knows what she sees, you know? 'Cause we--a lot of the girls are regulars. Sometimes, you know, they're different, but for the most part, you know, when these girls to go to all of these different events, you know, Makers Faire, and to city hall, and be treated like absolute ladies, you know? We treat them like gold. We roll out the red carpet for them. That day will never--it will never leave them, you know? It changes their whole life, and we know that we've changed them in that one day and that they're looking for--they've seen and experienced a better future for themselves. Zach: Absolutely, and often it just needs that--takes that one spark to set off a whole new set of dreams, so that's incredible.Kiwoba: Exactly.Zach: Well, awesome. Look, that does it for us, y'all. Thank you for joining us on the Living Corporate podcast. Make sure to follow us on Instagram at LivingCorporate, Twitter at LivingCorp_Pod, and subscribe to our newsletter through living-corporate.com. Remember, this is a special series brought to you by the Coalition of Black Excellence. To learn more about the Coalition of Black Excellence and their CBE Week, look them up at CBEWeek.com. If you have a question that you'd like for us to answer and read on the show, make sure you email us at livingcorporatepodcast@gmail.com. This has been Zach. You've been listening to Kiwoba Allaire, founder and CEO of GIRL STEM STARS. Peace, y'all.Kiwoba: Goodbye. God bless you all.

Join us for a tour of the Makers Faire that took place November 17, 2018. We have a cavalcade of guests along this week, including Annette Dunn of Jumbo Minds, Kelsey Derringer of Birdbrain Technologies, Rob Mostyn of RocGamesDev and the organizer/mastermind of our local Makers Faire, Dan Schneiderman. Learn what these folks are doing to make cool stuff and encourage everyone to get engaged in STEAM, no matter their age.

Aujourd’hui Siham reçoit Claude Terosier, la fondatrice de Magic Makers. Pour faire simple, Magic Makers ce sont des ateliers pour apprendre le code aux enfants et ados de 6 à 15 ans. L'idée n'est pas d'en faire des informaticiens mais de leur apprendre à créer. Claude a développé toute une pédagogie dont elle nous parle dans cet épisode. On a donc évidemment parlé d’éducation, mais aussi des biais de genre, de développement personnel, de dépasser ses peurs et de faire ce qu’on n’a pas l’habitude de faire. Très bonne écoute ! --Pour en savoir plus sur Magic Makers : https://www.magicmakers.fr/--Pour recevoir une miniature 5ml de l'huile-en-sérum "Immortelle Reset" de L'Occitane en Provence (soit une cure de 7 nuits), utilisez le code "GENERATIONXX" pour toute commande passée sur fr.loccitane.com/ ou lors d'une simple visite dans une boutique participante (liste à retrouver juste ici : fr.loccitane.com/generationxx) avant le 7 octobre !--Pour suivre Génération XX :www.instagram.com/generationxxwww.generationxx.frRemerciements :Claude Terosier pour notre conversation, l'équipe de L'Occitane en Provence pour leur confiance et leur soutienProduction : Siham JibrilMusique libre de droits Voir Acast.com/privacy pour les informations sur la vie privée et l'opt-out.

Pop Up Youth Radio is a project of Yollocalli Arts Reach in collaboration with True Star Foundation. PUYR is a youth-led, community-centered, pop-up Internet radio program. This show was recorded live at Chicago Southside Mini Maker Faire 2016, on August 6th at Ford City Mall. Great conversations about science, gaming, technology, art, robotics, electronics and MORE!

Pop Up Youth Radio is a project of Yollocalli Arts Reach in collaboration with True Star Foundation. PUYR is a youth-led, community-centered, pop-up Internet radio program. This show was recorded live at Chicago Southside Mini Maker Faire 2016, on August 6th at Ford City Mall. Great conversations about science, gaming, technology, art, robotics, electronics and MORE!

This morning on the award-winning 'For the People,' host John Voket bids farewell to the retiring CEO of Operation Fuel; invites inventors and 'makers' to a big Makers Faire coming up in Westport; introduces the new and expanding Western Connecticut Health Network; and replays a segment to remind homeowners and contractors that it's'Call Before You Dig' month.

This morning on the award-winning 'For the People,' host John Voket bids farewell to the retiring CEO of Operation Fuel; invites inventors and 'makers' to a big Makers Faire coming up in Westport; introduces the new and expanding Western Connecticut Health Network; and replays a segment to remind homeowners and contractors that it's'Call Before You Dig' month.

Covering PBL, Makers Faire and more!

Covering PBL, Makers Faire and more!

Covering PBL, Makers Faire and more!

Esta semana o A.Sousa andou à procura de informação sobre uma experiência que teve com um upgrade gratuito para primeira classe. Durante o fim de semana fui até ao Lisbon Mini Makers Faire o que serviu de tema para falarmos de empreendedores e invenções. Podem aceder aqui à lista completa de episódios do Podcast. O […]

- Pensamientos Primero   Reflecting on Making For some people, sewing is just practical . For another segment of society, and I’m one of them, sewing is an important creative outlet that helps us to stay healthy and happy. -Entonces /Then She B. Coole Live talk from our local Makers Faire includes extempore  interview with professional embroideress (Tapistres?) Barbara Coole (B. Coole) oB. Coole Shares •Thoughts on the realities of garment sewers investing both time and money into modern machine embroidery equipment and know-how •Her advice on choosing an embroidery machine   -Pensimentos Finales:  What I’m thinking now, when it comes to my dream embroidery machine ~ ~ ~

The GameHounds gang hits reviews and news for the week in gaming. Topics include:- Edie will be at Makers Faire in San Mateo May 17 and 18. Come by "Game of Drones" area and come say hello;- Reviews of Titanfall (360), Strike Suit Zero (PC), Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn (PS4), and Mercenary Kings (PS4);- Octodad: The Dadliest Catch is on PS4, but it isn't free for PS Plus subscribers;- Goat Simulator will get goat parkour; - Xbox One comes to Japan on September 4, no news on other 25 territories yet to get the console;- PSN indy titles this month are Octodad, Putty Squad, and Cel Damage;- Nate Wells, lead artist for The Last of Us, has left Naughty Dog—the fourth recent major departure from the studio;- GameSpy will shut down its online-matchmaking services on May 31. This will affect about 1,000 games;- Netflix will raise prices for new members;- Dragon Age: Inquisition releases October 7;- Last of Us is coming to PS4 with all DLC included;- Microsoft files a copyright for "Screamride." No other info;- Walking Dead coming to next-gen consoles;- PS4's upcoming update will include SHAREfactory, which will be an online video-editing suite, ability to disable HDCP, and the ability to pre-load or auto-download pre-ordered games.Enjoy.

The GameHounds gang hits reviews and news for the week in gaming. Topics include:- Edie will be at Makers Faire in San Mateo May 17 and 18. Come by "Game of Drones" area and come say hello;- Reviews of Titanfall (360), Strike Suit Zero (PC), Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn (PS4), and Mercenary Kings (PS4);- Octodad: The Dadliest Catch is on PS4, but it isn't free for PS Plus subscribers;- Goat Simulator will get goat parkour; - Xbox One comes to Japan on September 4, no news on other 25 territories yet to get the console;- PSN indy titles this month are Octodad, Putty Squad, and Cel Damage;- Nate Wells, lead artist for The Last of Us, has left Naughty Dog—the fourth recent major departure from the studio;- GameSpy will shut down its online-matchmaking services on May 31. This will affect about 1,000 games;- Netflix will raise prices for new members;- Dragon Age: Inquisition releases October 7;- Last of Us is coming to PS4 with all DLC included;- Microsoft files a copyright for "Screamride." No other info;- Walking Dead coming to next-gen consoles;- PS4's upcoming update will include SHAREfactory, which will be an online video-editing suite, ability to disable HDCP, and the ability to pre-load or auto-download pre-ordered games.Enjoy.

The GameHounds gang hits reviews and news for the week in gaming. Topics include:- Edie will be at Makers Faire in San Mateo May 17 and 18. Come by "Game of Drones" area and come say hello;- Reviews of Titanfall (360), Strike Suit Zero (PC), Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn (PS4), and Mercenary Kings (PS4);- Octodad: The Dadliest Catch is on PS4, but it isn't free for PS Plus subscribers;- Goat Simulator will get goat parkour; - Xbox One comes to Japan on September 4, no news on other 25 territories yet to get the console;- PSN indy titles this month are Octodad, Putty Squad, and Cel Damage;- Nate Wells, lead artist for The Last of Us, has left Naughty Dog—the fourth recent major departure from the studio;- GameSpy will shut down its online-matchmaking services on May 31. This will affect about 1,000 games;- Netflix will raise prices for new members;- Dragon Age: Inquisition releases October 7;- Last of Us is coming to PS4 with all DLC included;- Microsoft files a copyright for "Screamride." No other info;- Walking Dead coming to next-gen consoles;- PS4's upcoming update will include SHAREfactory, which will be an online video-editing suite, ability to disable HDCP, and the ability to pre-load or auto-download pre-ordered games.Enjoy.