Upcoming Events
On May 2nd at 7 p.m. EST, I’ll be participating on a virtual panel presentation with Claudia Walker for National Children’s Book Week: CS For Young Readers. I’ll be speaking about my books and suggesting other resources for teaching computer science to kids. If you’d like to join us, sign up here. (Tickets are $30 for non-members).
On Monday, June 24th from 3-4 p.m. I’ll be presenting Teaching CSTA K-2 Standards Using Books, Games and Songs at the 2024 ISTE conference in Denver, CO. This session will be in-person, live-streamed and recorded, for ISTE conference participants (must register for the in-person and/or virtual conference to attend).
On Friday, June 28th from 5-8 p.m. you’ll find me and illustrator D. J. Cools with Booksweet in the KidZone tent at A2SF (formerly known as Top of the Park), giving a sneak preview reading from our forthcoming titles, Little Hackers and Little Computer Scientists, singing the Debugging and Silly Password songs from the Guidebook and teaching kids about binary, ciphers and cybersecurity vocabulary. Enter the in-person drawing for a signed copy of Social-Emotional Learning Using Makerspaces and Passion Projects and a basket of makerspace supplies. (Free event).
Media
My illustrator Darren Cools was the featured illustrator on SCBWI Michigan’s Spring blog. Check out the article for sneak peek, behind-the-scenes details about our forthcoming books.
In this Makezine article and podcast, Making is So Elementary, I’m interviewed by none other than Dale Dougherty!
Our makerspace was also featured in this FutureLearn, Raspberry Pi Course: Build a Makerspace for Young People
If you’d like to know a bit more about me, feel free to peruse my University of Michigan: Alumni Snapshot