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
Richard Millwood
from
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Akos Ledeczi
from
Vanderbilt University
Ledeczi is a CS Professor at Vanderbilt University. He has been working on NetsBlox, 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 on Coursera.
Nathalie Carrié
from
IREM de la Réunion
Gordon Stein
from
Vanderbilt University
Glen Bull
from
University of Virginia
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
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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.
- Three new blocks. A world of possibilities. NetsBlox.
- microBlocks meets physics
- Creating Art through Coding
- Minecraft Multiplayer Hackathons
- CS Frontiers: Engaging Curricula for Teachers and Students
- Vera Molnar, programming and embroidery
- Encryption using simple arithmetic in base 65536 or higher
- Driving virtual robots together with blocks
- A simple result in linear algebra found thanks to Snap! and its APL Library
- Date:
- 2021 July 29 - 10:45 PST
- Duration:
- 1 h
- Room:
- Plenary
- Conference:
- Snap!Con 2021
- Type:
- Plenary