We have an amazing group of parent speakers and alumni for Computer Science Education Week/Hour of Code 2024. We hope you’ll be able to join us for an exciting week of activities.

Guest Speakers

Monday, Dec. 9 (All Day)

Russell Miner, Technical Lead, PuzzleNation – presentation

https://www.linkedin.com/in/russellminer/

Tuesday, Dec. 10

Period 7, 8:49-9:49

Dattu Prajapati, Software Engineer, Fidelity Investments – presentation

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dattup/

Sean Waite, Security and Management, Red Hat – presentation

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sean-waite/

Wednesday, Dec. 11

Period 2, 2-3

Nila Almstrom, Senior Project Engineer, Gillette – presentation

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nila-almstrom-17897b2/

Friday, Dec. 13

Panel time either Period 4 or Period 5

Panel discussion video

(10:28-11:28)

Melanie Thibodeau, BHS Class of 2018

Master’s in CS from UMass Dartmouth, Military Research at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center

https://www.linkedin.com/in/melanie-thibodeau/

Gati Aher, BHS Class of 2019

Machine Learning Ph.D. Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gatiaher/

Emerson Perez, BHS Class of 2020

Burlington Public Schools IT Department

Eric Calandriello, BHS Class of 2011

Burlington Public Schools IT Department

Note that Period 7 will use various presentations made by the following.

Period 4 Game Design will use Brady and Nathan’s presentation as well as the Unity Essentials Tutorial in Unity Learn

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Presentations

Period 2 Sahen presentation

Period 2 (Jayden, Hayden) presentation

Period 5 (Mark, Luqmaan, Tim) presentation

Drone Presentation – Period 6 (Fabien, Krish, Nil)

Photoshop Presentation – Period 6 Sarah

Robotics Presentations

Period 2 (Gabby, Jake, JT) presentation

Period 5 (Emily, Marianna, McKenna) presentation

Period 6 (Dan, Drew, Jason, John) presentation

Unity Presentations

Period 5 (Brady, Nathan) presentation

Virtual Reality Presentations

Period 2 (Ryan, Talan, Yousif) presentation

Period 5 (Anthony, Dom, Dylan, Joe) presentation

Period 6 (Andre, Jack, Jaiden) presentation

Period 6 (Fabien) Apple Vision Pro presentation