If you are interested in teaching, here are some ways we recommend to get started:
- Teach your own children using our SmallBasic recipes. It’s a great place to start
- Volunteer to teach at an event or an after-school program at your local school. We did this for one hour per week using our library (for 14 weeks).
- Volunteer to teach at a Microsoft DigiGirlz event world-wide
- Create your own event! One computer for each two kids (pair program), grab our recipes from the web, and download / configure SmallBasic and you are ready to go.
We are working on creating a directory of teachers world-wide (below is a partial list – notify me (Lynn Langit) to get specific teacher contact information.
To our knowledge, TKP events have been taught in the locations listed below in 2010 / 2011. The map shows (broadly) areas of TKP teacher coverage in the world.
- North America – US States – CA, WA, AZ, ND, MN, MI, TX, NC, MA, NY, PA, FL; Canada & Mexico
- US – WEST
- Greater Seattle, WA – Ashley Myers/Microsoft, Rick Morelan
- San Jose, CA – Kenny Spade/Microsoft, Bruno Terkaly/Microsoft
- Los Angeles, CA – Lynn Langit/Microsoft, Llewellyn Falco, Rain Breaw
- Orange County, CA – Llewellyn Falco, Lynn Langit/Microsoft, Gina Johnston, Thomas Mueller, Dustin Hotard, Candice Lei, Susan Sim, Nicole Bluto, Ivan Sanders, Rajeev Karnani
- Inland Empire, CA – Steve Paplanus, James Johnson, William Salazar/Microsoft
- San Diego, CA – June Clarke, Alline Watkins, Megan O’Rorke, Ike Ellis, Walter Wesley, Dave McCarter, Polly Hackathorn
- US – CENTRAL
- Fargo, ND – contact Microsoft DigiGirlz team (Babs Coler / Microsoft)
- Minneapolis, MN – Lara Rubbelke/Microsoft
- St. Louis, MO – Kathi Kellenberger/Microsoft
- Chicago, IL – Kathi Kellenberger/Microsoft
- US – EAST
- Raleigh, NC – contact Microsoft DigiGirlz team or Erin (Ed) Donahue/Microsoft
- Miami, FL – Telmo Sampio
- Philadephia, PA – Lindsay Lindstrom (RUTTER)/Microsoft
- Boston, MA – John Bowan
- Washington, DC – Erin (Ed) Donahue/Microsoft
- US – WEST
- Canada – Genevieve L’Esperance
- Europe – Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, Germany
- Denmark – Lena Tønning Pedersen
- Norway – Katrina Owen
- Belgium – Katrien De Graeve
- Africa – Zambia, South Africa
- Johannesburg, SA – Sydney Du Plooy
- Durban, SA – Sarah Mocke / Microsoft
- Lusaka, Zambia – Lexina Zulu
- Australia
- Sydney – Catherine Eibner/Microsoft
- Asia – Korea
- Seoul – So Yeon Kim
Here’s a slide deck with some more ideas for getting involved.