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Giving everyone the ability to shape technology's futureCeline Boudier - 1st March 2017 - Tech and Ladies, Ocado, Barcelona

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Mazes and Microscopes

I loved mazes, dinosaurs, floor plans and domino houses

I fought for the microscope at Christmas and Barbie dolls.

Why do 2-storey doll houses have no stairs???

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Mentors and MediaSchool Teacher

- First computers!- Theory of evolution- Newts

Older cousins- Magic tricks- Creativity- Pacman

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Mentors and Media

Comic Book Nuclear Physics…

...Real life physicists

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Vocations?

- Actress- Writer- Artist- Architect- Stage Magician- Perfume Creator- Exobiologist- Egyptologist

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Vocations?

Science? Literature?

- Actress- Writer- Artist- Architect- Stage Magician- Perfume Creator- Exobiologist- Egyptologist

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Vocations?

Science? Literature?

- Actress- Writer- Artist- Architect- Stage Magician- Perfume Creator- Exobiologist- Egyptologist

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Vocations?First programs

- Linguist- Computer

Science Researcher?

Science? Literature?

- Actress- Writer- Artist- Architect- Stage Magician- Perfume Creator- Exobiologist- Egyptologist

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Lycée V. Duruy - My Science 'Year 13', Paris, 2003

(31% women go to non medical scientific studies after high school (53% men), France, 2008)

Vocations?

20% women in my math prep class for engineering schools, Lycée Louis Le Grand, Paris, 2003

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Vocations?

Just 13% computer science students in the UK were women in 2014

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Vocations?40% women, 2005 (record breaking)

Computer Science R&D!Robots! AI!

Software Engineer Internship at Exalead - working closely with a diverse team, 2008

Computer Science R&D + Languages!

Only permanent full time female software engineer, 20081/Few female software leads, 2013Product owner + lead, 2014

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Changing My MindBefore After

Enjoyed being anoutsider

Wanted the world to change magically

Bad experiences

Hidden problems

Diversity issues (ex face recognition)

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Changing My MindBefore After

Enjoyed being anoutsider

Wanted the world to change magically

Bad experiences

Hidden problems

Diversity issues (ex face recognition)

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Changing Lives - Ask NAO- Teaching tool for learning goals- Repetitive, never gets angry, non

judgemental- Bridge between computers and humans

We changed a few lives, including ours

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Moving - New minds to change

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Moving - New minds to change

Paris London

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Moving - New minds to change

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Code For Life - Ocado

Code For Life is a non profit initiative that delivers free, open–source

games that help all students learn computing

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Wait, what?

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Why?

2014

UK introduces computing in the primary school curriculum

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“Teaching children to program is not just about nurturing the next generation of software engineers; being able to write code is a transformative and disruptive meta-skill that needs to be seen as being of huge potential value whatever your future holds.

I would go so far as to say that it is a survival skill that our children need to acquire to flourish in the increasingly digital and online future that awaits them.”

Paul Clarke, Ocado CTO

Yes, but why?

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Linda Liukas - Hello Ruby, a delightful way to teach kids about computers

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Cat Lamin - Why do kids need to learn how to code

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What about the teachers?

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What about the teachers?

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What about the teachers?

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What about the teachers?

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Some teachers personas

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Rapid Router: From Blockly to Python1st game, for primary schools

From visual programming in Blockly to Python

Progression in computing concepts

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Materials and Role Models

Videos of Ocado employees: what

they do, coding concepts

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Materials and Role Models

• Lesson plans

• Unplugged activities

• Teacher solutions

• How to guides

• Students' progress

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Next Goals for Portal

Redesign: more colourful and enticing

Better UX for user onboarding and other functionalities

Easier to find useful infos and materials...

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Games are programmed...

??

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AI:MMO Secondary School Game

Teaching AI concepts to teenagers (12 - 16)

Python

Massively Multiplayer

User code running server side

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AI:MMO - Challenges and next steps

Message for everyone

User research

Design

Good fit to teenagers' current skillset

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Some other next steps

Code for Life has over 70,000 users across the world.MORE!! Translations in progress

iOS app for iPads:Used in schoolsOffline to play at home- some parents don't allow internet

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Volunteering and giving back

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Volunteering and giving back

Inspire kidsFree, fun, open source gamesDiversityLearning ourselvesShortlisted at

Still a lot of children to reach

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Spreading the word - Contributingcodeforlife.education

https://www.codeforlife.education/contact/

https://github.com/ocadotechnology/codeforlife-portal, rapid-router, aimmo

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https://crowdin.com/project/code-for-life

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Thanks! Questions?

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Annex - Stack