<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509937779249_13301" dir="ltr"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509937779249_13560"><div style="max-height: 465px; min-height: 465px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509937779249_13561"> <div role="document" spellcheck="true" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 16px; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; min-height: 462px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509937779249_13563" contenteditable="true"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509937779249_13564"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509937779249_13565" dir="ltr">Reminder that we have an SGVLUG meeting on Thursday.<br><br>This month we'll be at OpenX. Dr. Christine Corbett Moran will be talking about her<br>experiences with her summer high school coding apprenticeship program, Summer <br>App Space. Please forward this to anyone who might be interested.<br><br>You know the drill. Please RSVP on Meetup or with me, so I can populate the sign-in<br>sheet. Preferably by Tuesday night. If you're new to OpenX, please check out <br>the Meetup for parking directions.<br><br><a href="https://www.meetup.com/SGVTech/events/244163293/" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509937779249_13957">https://www.meetup.com/SGVTech/events/244163293/</a><br><br>TIME: Thursday, November 9th, from 7pm to 9pm<br>LOCATION: OpenX Technologies, 888 E Walnut St, Pasadena, CA 91101<br><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509937779249_14012">TOPIC: Summer App Space</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509937779249_14013">SPEAKER: Dr. Christine Corbett Moran</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509937779249_14103"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509937779249_14170">In this talk Dr. Corbett Moran will discuss the challenges and
rewards of instructing a mixed skill class in an apprenticeship style
learning environment.</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509937779249_14171">On June 26-August 4, 2017 <a href="http://christinecorbettmoran.com/" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509937779249_14172">Dr. Corbett Moran</a> led a summer program, <a href="http://summerappspace.com/" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509937779249_14173">Summer App Space</a>,
for LA students and teachers to learn programming while getting paid to
do fun space-related projects. Her work on this was supported by NSF
Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship award AST-1501208.
Summer App Space is a paid apprenticeship where high school students are
paid to attend a six week school learning to program in Python and the
fundamentals of Linux, 20 hours per week. Four weeks are lecture and lab
based, and the last two weeks are project based incorporating a
deliverable product and entrepreneurial style teams.</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509937779249_14189"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509937779249_14190"><b>Bio</b></div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509937779249_14175">Dr. Corbett Moran is the lead curriculum designer, recruiter and
instructor for the Summer App Space (SAS) 2017 program. She brings to
the table extensive experience in running such programs from a teaching,
technology, organizational, scientific and industry connection
perspective. <br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509937779249_14176"> <br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509937779249_14177">She taught introductory and advanced courses in
MIT MEET: Middle East Education Through Technology for two summers. MEET
is a gifted high school program in which she taught Java programming
and mobile app development in a project, lecture, and guest speaker
format. MEET’s mission is creating a common professional language
between Israeli and Palestinian young leaders. Dr. Corbett Moran served
as the lead technical instructor in MIT’s Global Startup labs in the
Philippines for a summer to students from a variety of backgrounds and
socio-economic status in the Manila area in a highly similar format to
that planned for SAS. She has organized speakers and technology for
TEDxZurich as well as hackathons for Open WhisperSystems and a site of
the NASA Space Apps Challenge, on which she is basing SAS projects. <br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509937779249_14178"> <br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509937779249_14179">Dr.
Corbett Moran dually majored in Physics and Computer Science at MIT,
obtained a Master’s and Ph.D. focusing on Computational Astrophysics at
UZH, and her NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship
research is at the intersection of the two. She has worked for SpaceX as
an intern in Propulsion Analysis and has over 10 years of industry
programming experience in cutting-edge web and mobile technologies. Dr.
Corbett Moran has served as a teaching assistant and lab assistant for 8
courses, spoken around the globe as a highly praised public speaker,
and mentored several students. Dr. Corbett Moran’s participation has
been enabled by NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship
award AST-1501208.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509937779249_14216"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509937779249_14217"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509937779249_14369">Lan<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>