Lightning Talks Round 1

Plenary
Schedule

Presented by:

Jeremy Millard

from DiamondFire

Founder of DiamondFire, a server-based platform for teaching computer science through Minecraft. UC Berkeley CS grad (2020), software engineer, competitive DanceDanceRevolution enthusiast.

Ken Kahn

from University of Oxford

[Ken's home page](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r7oaUOGs1TGjtKYo1CCmfqTifH5cqpPny5ALx5EIT_8/edit?usp=sharing)

Nathalie Carrié

from IREM de la Réunion

[My profile on Linkedin, experiences and diploma @nathalierun](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathalierun/)

[Je me présente](https://nathalierun.net/Je-me-presente.html)

[My Twitter account @nathrune](https://twitter.com/nathalierun)

[Math in class in pictures](https://nathalierun.net/lycee/piwigo/)

[My research papers in mathematics and computer science teaching](https://irem.univ-reunion.fr/spip.php?auteur8)

Richard Millwood

from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

http://richardmillwood.net http://blog.richardmillwood.net

Gordon Stein

from Vanderbilt University

Glen Bull

from University of Virginia

Akos Ledeczi

from Vanderbilt University

Ledeczi is a CS Professor at Vanderbilt University. He has been working on [NetsBlox](https://netsblox.org), an extension that adds distributed computing capabilities and online collaboration to the Snap! for many years. He is also known for his highly popular [introductory programming MOOC](https://www.coursera.org/learn/matlab/) on Coursera.

Marnie Hill

Andreas Gräfl

from Working group 'didaktik-aktuell' at University of Education Heidelberg (Germany)

Volunteer Hosts
Thanks for helping with Snap!Con 2021!

Jens Mönig

from SAP
No materials for the event yet, sorry!

The first of two lightning (five-minute) talk sessions.

Lightning talks are listed in the order they are scheduled, but do no count on each talk starting exactly as scheduled. Each speaker will have 5 minutes, with the remaining time at the end to be used for Q&A.

  1. Three new blocks. A world of possibilities. NetsBlox.
  2. microBlocks meets physics
  3. Creating Art through Coding
  4. Minecraft Multiplayer Hackathons
  5. CS Frontiers: Engaging Curricula for Teachers and Students
  6. Vera Molnar, programming and embroidery
  7. Encryption using simple arithmetic in base 65536 or higher
  8. Driving virtual robots together with blocks
  9. A simple result in linear algebra found thanks to Snap! and its APL Library
Date:
2021 July 29 - 10:45 PDT
Duration:
1 h
Room:
Plenary
Conference:
Snap!Con 2021
Type:
Plenary