 Hello everyone! Welcome to Jobs in Computer Science. We are so excited to talk to you today and let you know a little bit more about what it looks like at a startup and what it looks like at CESA, something that you are probably really familiar with. Maybe you even use it in your classroom. I'm Angela and I lead the community team here at CESA and basically what that means is I work with teachers all over the world and I help them get started with CESA and maybe I even work with your teacher too to give ideas and kind of just share some connections. But I was a kindergarten teacher for 15 years so special wave to all my kindergarten friends out there that are watching. We are so excited to have you here today and we are going to talk about a couple different things. We're going to see what it looks like at CESA. You're going to get to learn about different jobs that people have at CESA and you're going to use, not use, you're going to learn. Look at me. I'm so excited. I'm talking so fast. You're going to learn some words that engineers use every day when they're working at CESA and then at the very end we are going to take some time to answer your questions. So be thinking what questions might you want us to answer at the end. So now we're getting, I'm getting excited because you're going to get to meet some members of the CESA team. Some are sitting right next to me right here and this is Eric. Eric say hi. Tell us a little bit about you. Hi everyone. So I'm a software engineer at CESA and basically I work on the iPhone and iPad versions of CESA. So if you're using that in the classroom I've probably worked on it and pretty much my day looks like I get to work. I sit on the computer and basically try to make new features for the apps and also work on any problems that are arising on the app. Yeah. So he can fix, he can fix all sorts of problems too. And then we have Ari. Say hi. Hi everyone. I'm also a software engineer. So I work on making CESA on laptops. So if you're using CESA on a laptop I help make that work a lot. I used to be a college teacher which is a later school you might go to in the future. But I have some teaching experience and I really love it. I also love cats. I have a really cute cat at home for the door. My day is probably about half and half doing some stuff on the computer of making CESA and figuring out what shapes go where and what buttons go where and half talking to people and figuring out what we're doing and how we're doing and how everyone else on the team is working and making sure that everyone is able to do the stuff they're doing on and be happy. Lots of team work here. And then we have some other friends that are still at CESA. They're just in another room because we couldn't all fit in one spot. So hi Nikita. Hi everyone. So I'm Nikita like Eric and Ari. I'm also a software engineer. I primarily work on the Android app. So Eric was on iPhone. Aria was on tops and I work on Android. So my day consists of pretty much the same thing as Eric and Ari is. Definitely love to hang out with my CESA team and go to meetings and then also make the product that you guys use in your classroom better and better. And Meryl say hello. Meryl I lead our marketing team here at CESA and that means that I help people and teachers and parents etc find out more about CESA and how they can use it. Sometimes that means I send people emails or I write them letters. Sometimes we send them stuff in the mail like t-shirts and really just try to help people get the most out of CESA in their classroom. Thanks Meryl. So many great people working here. Now I want to give you a sneak peek inside CESA headquarters. So where we spend our day it's kind of fun to get to look behind the scenes. So CESA headquarters is in San Francisco and I normally work in Minnesota. So you can see that on the map too. So I'm kind of far away but I'm here visiting this week because I wanted to be here for the webinars and when you go into CESA this is the first thing you'll see. We have a little sign and then you walk in and you're going to see all kinds of people working at their desks. So you might have desks in your classroom or tables. That's just like CESA. We're kind of one big huge classroom and we don't, people don't have their own offices at CESA because we spend a lot of time working together. But I also wanted to show you this picture. You'll see Meryl in the picture but do you notice that we have backpacks or school bags that we bring to work too? So that might, you might have a connection with that as well as you're bringing your work to school too. This is our lunchroom and we actually call it the playground and this is where we would eat our lunch. This is also where we have big meetings with everyone in the company. So you might have a connection there too because I'm sure you have a special spot to eat in your school too. And then the other thing I wanted to show you is actually where we're sitting right now. We're sitting in some of these conference rooms and that's just a spot where you can go to have meetings with other people and do lots of talking and planning while other people can still do their work out in CESA kind of at their desk. So we're, I think right now we're in the one that's called Hopscotch and Meryl and Nikita are in the room called Capture the Flag. So all of our rooms actually have fun names like things you would do on the playground which makes sense with CESA right? So oh this one is our kitchen our little snack area because I'm sure at school you might have a snack or you might need to just make sure your brain is still awake and ready to work and learn. So at CESA we have a spot where we can get snacks to make sure we're energized and ready to continue on our day too just like you. We're going to look at some jobs at CESA. So here we go. So we have the co-founders of CESA and this is Carl and Adrian and they were the guys who thought of the idea of CESA. So they're kind of like the bosses of CESA really and then we have software engineers. Yeah so this is a team of software engineers that work on different parts of CESA to make sure that it can be used all over the world in classrooms and everyone can post their work. Lots of coding right? Yeah lots of coding. This is the product team and the product team works to figure out what features are we going to add to CESA what changes are we going to make. So if you see something new this year or next year that's an idea that the product team came up with. And then we have the operations team and I just want to let you know that's not like a doctor giving an operation. This is a team of teachers that help a team of people at CESA that help teachers answer their questions. They also make sure everything kind of works okay at CESA. So if someone's celebrating a birthday or if we need to order supplies or all sorts of jobs this this team handles that. Yes and so we talked a little bit about the marketing team. These are some of the folks on our team and we help people get the most out of CESA understand how to use it. We might send them emails or you know letters in the mail and we just have a lot of fun working with our teacher partners. This is more of our team and they are more focused on our community aspect. So they're focused on really building relationships with teachers, connecting with them online about the things that they're using CESA to do in the classroom. And this is our partnerships team. This team of folks talks to folks like your principal or the superintendent in your district to help them understand how they could set CESA up in all the classrooms in your school. So do you see that there are a lot of people that work at CESA? So we use teamwork every single day here. So in your classroom I bet today you're going to work together somehow and that's exactly you're already building some of the skills that you need for a job that you'll have maybe when you grow up. So keep working on that teamwork because we use it every single day at CESA. We're going to talk a little bit about some fancy engineering words that you know Eric and Nikita and Arya use every day and the first one is code. Yeah so code is a language that we use to talk to computers. So if any of you speak a different language at home maybe Spanish or Chinese possibly to your parents code is the language we use to talk to computers so that computers understand us. So it's sort of like giving commands to your dog except that your dog has a limited set of words. It can understand like sit but it doesn't understand go get me the paper. Right. So similarly we tell computers small commands to let it know how to make CESA. So it kind of looks like a lot of jumbled letters doesn't it. It does. Yeah so a bug and these aren't the bugs that you see outside or sometimes even inside. This is basically when the computer code isn't telling the computer exactly what we want it to do so it's not behaving how it should and is doing something wrong. Yeah so we have to fix it. Yeah so our engineers spend a lot of time fixing some bugs and Nikita what's this big word. So a crash is almost as scary as a real crash in real life it's when a bug gets so so bad that the app gets totally confused and doesn't know what to do and shuts off. So this is the worst kind of bug written by some very sad code that sometimes can make this happen where your app will break and it doesn't know what to do so it totally stops working. And we never want that to happen at CESA so we make sure that we write really really good code. So we're just going to go really quickly and say what we like to do when we were little because I know a lot of you out there maybe you're thinking oh my goodness what did they like to do. So when I was little about your age I love to do art and creating with all sorts of art projects. What about you Arya. I love to play with wooden trains. I just was fascinated with them and they were a lot of fun to put together and hook up. What about you Eric. I love to play with Legos so making different things. That's a good one. How about you Meryl. I loved to dance and I actually still love to dance. Any kind of dance ballet jazz hip hop. I loved it all. When I was little I really like to play with puzzles and games as well so I did a lot of that. Wonderful. Well now what we're going to do is take some questions from you the students. So I am going to play a little music for maybe about 30 seconds so that you have enough time to talk to your teacher to say what kind of question you would like to ask us. So make sure your teacher writes in the grade level that you are in and also where you live and then we'll answer a few questions before we have to go. Here we go. All right so I gave you a little bit of time and we have just a few minutes to go into some questions. I keep checking my timer because I know you have a busy day that you're going to enjoy at school. So the first question comes from Mr. Love second grade class in Michigan and he says how do we get prepared for jobs that don't even exist yet? So I don't know Arya do you have any advice? That's a really good question. That's hard. We're trying to figure out things that aren't here yet. But the things that are common to most jobs are you're going to be working closely with people and you're going to have to be developing your problem solving. Yes. So really focus on learning how to work well with others and learning how to solve problems so some of your math and science classes will get involved. Good great answer. Thanks for asking that. Then we have Ms. England's class and they're wondering what happens after a crash. Nikita you talked about a crash. Could you say what would happen after a crash? Yeah that's a great question. So we hear about the crash in a number of ways. Sometimes we find it ourselves. Sometimes you guys write into us and let us know that there's a crash. And then the engineering team gets together and works really hard as fast as possible to figure out what made that crash happen. What kind of code did we write that the computer got confused about? And once we figure that out we try to unconfuse the computer with some better code and we resolve that crash and hopefully make a new update for the app so it doesn't crash anymore. Thank you. So we have Ms. Garris's class that wants to know what do I have to do if I want to be a software engineer like you Eric. That's a good question. I would say it's never too young to start preparing to be a software engineer. So like Arya mentioned problem solving skills are super important and I would say like you can even get started coding. There's a lot of resources out there. And I'm not too sure if we put some out there but yeah. And so on our website the Seesaw coder site where your teacher signed up for this there's some great things there. So check that out. I want to give a couple shout outs. We've got so many classes here today and we can't answer everybody's question and I'm going to just say a couple names that I know are out there. So we have Ms. Robinson's class, Ms. Huff's class, Ms. Eglet's class, Ms. Emery's class, Ms. Alex's class. We have Ms. Stokes, Ms. Love, Mr. Hernandez. We've got all sorts of people joining in today. We have Ms. Hutchins class, Ms. Robinson, Ms. Bowens all sorts of classes. So we are so thankful that you came today and I know there's a lot more that we couldn't even give shout outs to today but we're so glad that you can join us and we have something special for you to try and it's creating a new Seesaw class icon. So this is actually kind of a contest where you can get this activity from your teacher. It's inside Seesaw so your teacher can find it in the activity library and it gives you a chance to draw and design a class icon. Then we're going to choose some of the best designs to inspire our next real class icon that you'll see in Seesaw. So I hope your teacher will share this with you so you can kind of have a chance to give some designing a try on your own. So you'll find that right inside Seesaw. So take a peek there and we want to say thank you so much for coming today. We are excited to share and learn with you and we can't wait to see what you create this week during Computer Science Education Week. Thanks everyone!