 Thanks. Let me just get this thing working. So, uh-oh, open office. Come on. Slide show. There we go. Ah, there we go. So, my name is Claude Arpin. These are microbits. I'll let you play with them, pass them around, and I want them back. So, the microbit and their worldwide rush to teach coding. What's happening? Well, a lot of countries, okay, 86 billion ARM Cortex processors sold since 1990. The ARM means advanced risk machine. So, what they did, they made the code smaller inside the processor so they could make the processors more powerful. Since then, 86 billion of these processors have been sold. So, this is all in your iPhones, your iPads, everything is IoT, etc. If you take the memory, that's 46 quadrillion bytes of memory that has to be filled with code. That's an enormous amount of code. And a lot of countries, 20 countries, have started massive programs to teach coding at a young age. So, starting around 10 years old. And if we see the UK, US, Australia, smaller countries like Croatia, Estonia, etc. are seeing that this is the new wave. So, we wanted our kids to learn a skill that they'll use other lives. So, we must not fall behind. In Canada, we're pretty good in programming, but the world is catching up. So, this is the microbit. This was invented by the BBC. In the 80s, they had done a computer that had a lot of success and was used to teach kids programming. So, they've done it again. As you see, it's a small computer. On one side, you've got some LEDs, buttons, stuff on the other side the processors, connections and stuff. So, I'll give you a bit more detail. If I can get the thing going. Okay. So, first of all, it's a tool geared for kids. They could have used a Raspberry Pi or an Arduino, but they wanted something that the kids would really like, have fun using. So, they came up with this design. It has 25 LEDs on one side, a matrix. So, they can put code. They can show messages. They can put drawings and stuff like that on that side. It has Bluetooth. So, it could talk to a phone. It could talk to an iPad or something. You know, I like Apple. There's an accelerometer and a compass inside. So, they can play games. So, they shake it or they move it. And they can see what happens. There's some analog and digital IOs. A bit like an Arduino. So, they can interface with the real world. And it can work with batteries or USB operated. Now, we have to talk about code. So, the coding environment, they have multiple coding environments. One of them is Python. The easiest one is the block editor. It's developed by Microsoft. And it's really a visual editor that's very easy to use to teach kids about coding. So, I'll show you. I have a slide on that. You can also use JavaScript, but you don't have the block type of, you have just actual code. And Python also. There's an online Python editor. So, people who want to learn Python, they can go on the microbit.org website and find this Python editor and play around with it. And it's all free, of course. What's good about Python? Well, it's the perfect thing to introduce kids to programming, but it opens the door to a higher level. You can start with, you know, basic stuff like, you know, x-siggle equals two and y equals x plus z. And then you can move up to objects and things like that. There's online tools. The code is downloaded to the microbit. Once you've done your code on your screen, you download it as a drag and drop. So, the microbit looks like a hard drive. So, you just, you know, drag it to the hard drive and your code downloads. So, it's very easy to learn. So, this is the block editor. It doesn't look very good on the screen, though. But anyway, as you can see, they're all blocks and they connect to one another. You see these little squiggly things here. Sorry. So, you see where they, you know, where they connect to each other. So, it's very visual. The students, you drag them from the side here, the different module, and you plug them together. So, it's a visual way of looking at code. So, there's something similar to scratch that was designed by MIT. On the left here, you've got actually a simulator that will simulate your code. And once you're happy with your code, you can download it, like I said, and it's a drag and drop. So, it's for a basic to start off with a person who has no knowledge of programming. It's quite easy to use. And remember, we're talking about kids about 10, 12 years old. So, what's the benefits of teaching Python with the microbit? Why not just teach it on a computer? So, one of the things is you teach kids to create, not to consume. They have hands-on, they have a device they can play with, and they can realize that they can actually do things, create things, and things will happen. I don't know if many of you did a program called Blinky. Well, you know, everybody's happy. You know, they just get a one-led flashing. So, with this, they can do much more. But they get the feedback of their creation. It's a hands-on tool. It's less abstract. You know, if you're just programming a computer, it's like, you know, in the cloud, you don't know, it doesn't have any physical aspect to it. And like I said earlier, you can start a very simple code and move up with the examples. This is important because you have to think that the teachers also have to understand this to teach it to the kids. And like I said, you can move up to object-oriented programming. Another benefit of Python is it works on many platforms. So, if kids have a PC at home, or they have a Mac, or they have a Linux machine, they can still work with this. And they can work with the Python, and as they learn, they can do other things with the Python. And it seems that Python programmers are in high demand. So, we hope that if you are all programmers, you'll get a good salary. This is the Python online editor. So, it's not a visual like the block. So, this is for someone a bit more advanced, but it's the code. And the same thing, you have drag and drop. You can drag it to the microbit, and it'll run on the microbit. So, what's the situation in Canada, and what is our role? What we find in Canada, coding at a young age is not yet a priority. We see countries like the UK, they gave out a million microbits to all the students in the country. So, you've got a million kids who are exposed to programming. So, we have to start to get our educators to think about the same way. And also get more girls involved in programming. Why are there so few girls here? So, it should be natural. So, for the Python community like you, I hope you will get involved. You'll talk to your teachers. If you have kids in school, talk to your teachers, talk to the principal, tell them that coding is important. And I have to plug my company, Sinov, we make hardware. I'm talking software guys, but we make hardware. We also do the programming of many of the products we do. So, we sell the online, the Raspberry Pi, the Andrinosuff, et cetera. And we're sponsoring the micro-bit Canadian users group. And we're also working on a project to get 100,000 micro-bits into the hands of school children in Canada within the next two years. And that's it. Thank you. Can I see? Yeah. Could you repeat the question so that we can also repeat? Yes, yes. Not yet. We're just starting our, we call it the Canadian Kids Coding Initiative. And we're starting to reach out to all these organizations to get them involved with this, with our micro-bit giveaway that we hope. Okay, well, I brought cards. So, definitely. If anyone else has connections, we're just starting this thing. We appreciate if you can help us. Oh, sorry. She asks if we were involved with different organizations like Canadian Coding. And there's a, there's a three or four in Canada. There's one on women coding. Kids Code to the NES. Yeah. Girls Learning Code. Canada Learning Code. So, we're trying to reach out to all these organizations and get them involved with our project. Yes, you can buy the micro-bit. They'll be released in North America in June. We, you can buy them from our website and you get free shipping. So, it's worth it. I hope. How much does it cost? Yeah. Okay, the micro-bit, Canadian is about $18, $20. Yes? What's the name again? Ubito. Ubito. U-B-E-T-E-O. So, that's a tool for the younger. I was going to mention that and there's a lot of studies that are being made at what age is the best age to start kids coding. And this is a good example that the younger they are, the better they are. Yeah. Yes? It was done where? Code the pillar. Okay. Any more questions? Oh, yes. The micro-bit has all these little gadgets on it that the kids like. It also has a huge backing. There's a nonprofit organization, the Micro-Bit Foundation in the UK. So, there's exercises, there's teaching aids for the teachers and there's a lot of stuff around it. Kids have video and stuff like that. They did look, because it comes from the UK, it's a Raspberry Pi. So, they did look a lot at the Pi, but they decided on that final format. One other thing, all the code and instructions and everything are in multiple languages. So, you can have it in French and in different languages. And other countries have done their version of the Micro-Bit. Germany has their own version. Japan has their own version. I hope maybe Canada will have ours. Okay. In the Micro-Bit, it's an ARM M0 Plus. It's an NRF 51 processor from Nordic Semiconductor. The processor is actually the Bluetooth radio also. And it has enough room to add this extra code. There's a different separate processor just to do the USB interface, but it doesn't do any of the coding. And like I was talking about ARM processors, so on the Micro-Bit, it's an ARM 0 Plus. The next version of the chip is an ARM M4. So, technology continues to advance. So, that means like you have a Bluetooth radio and in that radio, you've got a full processor that you can do all sorts of software. Okay. Thank you. Thank you.