Featured TKP Teachers

TKP In the US	International TKP
CALIFORNIA – Dustin Hotard .NET Developer, contractor Dustin has taught frequently in Orange County, CA, as well as in other regional events, such as ‘Kid’s Programming at Desert Code Camp’ in AZ, shown above. Dustin teaches our Microsoft SmallBasic, Microsoft Kodu, Microsoft T-SQL and Lego Mindstorms classes. Dustin also contributes to the TKP courseware library, helping to write and to test SmallBasic recipes, to code and test SmallBasic extensions and to work on this website.	CANADA – Genevieve L’Esperance Founder GenINC (events in Washington, DC; San Jose, CA, Seattle, WA and in Canada) At age 18 Gen is the founder of a web-based channel that engages young women to think about technology, its global social impact and a future career in an industry that holds exciting opportunities for talented young women. She now runs GenINC – a mix of three social media portals. Between her YouTube channel, her Facebook site, and her blog, Gen has become known as a techonomist and an up-and-rising IT channel role model. Since becoming a Microsoft Certified Professional a age 15, she has moved on to add her MCTS SharePoint (Technical Specialist) at 16. Genevieve is also a Microsoft Student Partner. She has been invited to cover events like Microsoft’s Imagine Cup in Washington, was one of 12 chosen from around the world to represent all students at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference last July as a Student to Business delegate and is featured in a new Microsoft video highlighting the benefits of technical certifications. She has interviewed people like James Cameron and is now on the speaker circuit where she extols the importance of mentoring and guiding young women and reaching out to develop centers in communities where girls cannot benefit from technology training. She is the youngest teacher of Small Basic, a programming language that is allowing kids to discover the excitement and ease of attaining technology skills and the potential power these skills hold in developing solutions to some of the world’s most pressing issues around world hunger, health, environmental sustainability and education. As she sees it this is her most important platform to engage with girls and the results have been nothing short of exciting and encouraging in an industry that sees too few women and even less role models. Gen is currently an intern at Microsoft Research where she is working on the Microsoft Worldwide Telescope Ambassador Program. While there she will be participating in Teaching Girls Programming events.
WASHINGTON state — Ashley Myers Microsoft Tester, former Imagine Cup team lead (events in Seattle, WA) Ashley is lead instructor for TKP Seattle. Here she is teaching her first event with non-profit, Seattle-based partner, IGNITE. During the 3.5 hour event, co-instructors Ashley Myers - Microsoft employee and TKP’s newly appointed facilitator for this program – and Kenny Spade – Academic Developer Evangelist for Microsoft (based in San Jose, CA) – introduced the girls to the basic concepts of pair programming and fail-based testing, using the core principles of Agile team-based development. The girls worked in pairs, trading responsibilities throughout the process of learning how to write code using Small Basic. The two instructors were aided by proctors Ed (Erin) Donahue, who is also an Academic Developer Evangelist (based in Washington, D.C), and by developer and technical instructor, Rick Morelan, of More Technology and Joes 2 Pros, who generously supplied a small army of laptops for the girls to use during the class.	SOUTH AFRICA — Sydney du Ploy .NET Developer, contractor Sydney taught his first TKP courseware last year at Microsoft’s first-ever DigiGirlz event (held in conjunction with TechEd Africa 2010 in Durban, South Africa). After that experience, Sydney decided that he would add the TKP curricula to the offerings at new weekend school that he is founding. To that end, he’ll be teaching the complete set of TKP Microsoft Small Basic courseware at his newly-formed school (near Johannesburg, South Africa) every Saturday morning, starting in late 2011.

TKP In the US

International TKP

CALIFORNIA – Dustin Hotard
.NET Developer, contractor

Dustin has taught frequently in Orange County, CA, as well as in other regional events, such as ‘Kid’s Programming at Desert Code Camp’ in AZ, shown above. Dustin teaches our Microsoft SmallBasic, Microsoft Kodu, Microsoft T-SQL and Lego Mindstorms classes.

Dustin also contributes to the TKP courseware library, helping to write and to test SmallBasic recipes, to code and test SmallBasic extensions and to work on this website.

CANADA – Genevieve L’Esperance
Founder GenINC (events in Washington, DC; San Jose, CA, Seattle, WA and in Canada)

At age 18 Gen is the founder of a web-based channel that engages young women to think about technology, its global social impact and a future career in an industry that holds exciting opportunities for talented young women. She now runs GenINC – a mix of three social media portals. Between her YouTube channel, her Facebook site, and her blog, Gen has become known as a techonomist and an up-and-rising IT channel role model. Since becoming a Microsoft Certified Professional a age 15, she has moved on to add her MCTS SharePoint (Technical Specialist) at 16. Genevieve is also a Microsoft Student Partner.

She has been invited to cover events like Microsoft’s Imagine Cup in Washington, was one of 12 chosen from around the world to represent all students at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference last July as a Student to Business delegate and is featured in a new Microsoft video highlighting the benefits of technical certifications. She has interviewed people like James Cameron and is now on the speaker circuit where she extols the importance of mentoring and guiding young women and reaching out to develop centers in communities where girls cannot benefit from technology training. She is the youngest teacher of Small Basic, a programming language that is allowing kids to discover the excitement and ease of attaining technology skills and the potential power these skills hold in developing solutions to some of the world’s most pressing issues around world hunger, health, environmental sustainability and education. As she sees it this is her most important platform to engage with girls and the results have been nothing short of exciting and encouraging in an industry that sees too few women and even less role models. Gen is currently an intern at Microsoft Research where she is working on the Microsoft Worldwide Telescope Ambassador Program. While there she will be participating in Teaching Girls Programming events.

WASHINGTON state — Ashley Myers

Microsoft Tester, former Imagine Cup team lead (events in Seattle, WA)

Ashley is lead instructor for TKP Seattle. Here she is teaching her first event with non-profit, Seattle-based partner, IGNITE. During the 3.5 hour event, co-instructors Ashley Myers - Microsoft employee and TKP’s newly appointed facilitator for this program – and Kenny Spade – Academic Developer Evangelist for Microsoft (based in San Jose, CA) – introduced the girls to the basic concepts of pair programming and fail-based testing, using the core principles of Agile team-based development. The girls worked in pairs, trading responsibilities throughout the process of learning how to write code using Small Basic. The two instructors were aided by proctors Ed (Erin) Donahue, who is also an Academic Developer Evangelist (based in
Washington, D.C), and by developer and technical instructor, Rick Morelan, of More Technology and Joes 2 Pros, who generously supplied a small army of laptops for the girls to use during the class.

SOUTH AFRICA — Sydney du Ploy

.NET Developer, contractor

Sydney taught his first TKP courseware last year at Microsoft’s first-ever DigiGirlz event (held in conjunction with TechEd Africa 2010 in Durban, South Africa). After that experience, Sydney decided that he would add the TKP curricula to the offerings at new weekend school that he is founding. To that end, he’ll be teaching the complete set of TKP Microsoft Small Basic courseware at his newly-formed school (near Johannesburg, South Africa) every Saturday morning, starting in late 2011.

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