 Hello everyone. Thank you so much for joining us today. We want to get started right on time We're talking all about girls who code it is computer science education week and as people are jumping in I want to give a couple shout outs. We have mr. Wisty's class with us today We have miss spouses second graders We have miss Joe Zavalk. Oh my goodness. I'm really these last names are gonna trick me today miss sequins miss Zavaki's class We have miss bungee's class miss Dutulio in Pennsylvania. Wow. My tongue is getting twisted today We have miss Diverse class and Mr. Valentini's fifth grade in New York. Hello. Hello. We have mr. Burts class to joining us last And lots of you are probably also watching us via recording and we are so glad to have you here And so excited that you are spending some time here with us today I'm Angela and I lead the community here at CSI and what does that mean? That means I get to work with teachers all over the world and probably teachers like your very own teacher To help them learn about CSI and get started and connect with other teachers I was also a kindergarten teacher for many many years and today we are going to learn about grace hopper You are going to meet some amazing women who work at CISA They're gonna share their Experiences with you and then we're gonna have a big chunk of time to answer your questions as well So to get started computer science education week is held in recognition of grace hoppers birthday and grace hopper was actually An American computer scientist in her birthday is December 9th now She's no longer living, but if she was still alive she would be 113 years old And she was in the US Navy as a rear admiral and she worked on some of the earliest Computers ever made so if you want to learn more about her I definitely recommend you do a little research and see what else you can learn about grace But one of my favorite stories that I learned about her when I was Doing some research and reading about grace hopper was that when she was seven years old She was always so curious and really really eager to see how things worked So she took apart so many alarm clocks at her house She would take them apart and figure out how how did they work? How could she put them back together could she change what you know How it performed or what it did and her mom I remember reading got so Frustrated and was like stop taking apart the alarm clocks, right? So I thought that was kind of a fun story about grace hopper But I'm sure that there will be more that you can learn about and find out when you do some investigating too I want you to meet some more of the seesaw team actually that works with me to build Seesaw something that maybe you're using already in your classroom. So I want to hand it over to some of my colleagues. Say hello I'm Chelsea. I'm a software engineer here at Seesaw That means that I write code and that code Tells your Seesaw app how to work when you click on this button. What should it do? Some things you might know about that I've worked on if you're using Seesaw is the multi-page feature So now you can do drawings on multiple pages. Very exciting. Tanisha worked with me on that And I have my favorite thing to do One of my favorite parts of my job is that we actually at Seesaw Get to sometimes go into the classroom and watch you all use what we made and it's so exciting to see what works And what doesn't work and how you guys use it in the classroom. I love it Awesome. And then we have another member. We're gonna have her scoop make sure she's in so we can see her really well Good morning, everyone. My name is Tanisha and like Chelsea. I'm also a software engineer at Seesaw Not so much in UV anymore. I've been here for five months But as Chelsea mentioned, if you've been on the Seesaw app recently I had a hand in building the multi-page feature that you guys are all using and hopefully loving At the moment, but right now I'm actually working on the backend engineering team So a lot of the app that you see, you know, all the buttons all the screens That's more on the front end and I get to like work on the background make sure all your data's safe Make sure all your data's correct And yeah, and so I think my favorite part of my day right now We're working on some, you know, making sure back to school next year is Smooth as possible. So kind of working on those problems that I get to come in every day With my team members and kind of work on that. So I'm really excited to like talk to you guys today. This is kind of exciting Yeah, we're so excited and I heard Tanisha say a really fancy word that engineers use because they use words a lot that Maybe we don't use and she said back end And when I came to Seesaw because I was a teacher and I was like, what does that mean? And one of the ways that I remembered it was I think about a car And when you are driving a car, there's a lot of things that you don't see or touch inside the car like the engine Right. So that's kind of stuff under the car hood that you don't usually see or do anything with but it actually Does a lot of work to make the car run. So when she's talking about back end She's talking about those things that you don't really get to see but really have a huge part in making Seesaw work And we have one more Kylie to introduce. Hi Claire. Hi. Hi everyone I'm Claire and I work on the support team here at Seesaw I am an implementation specialist, which is a very fancy way to say tech support I make sure that Seesaw works on all of your computers and tablets and devices that you have in school And if your teacher or principal has Runs into a problem where it's not working. They call me to fix it. So, uh, if your teacher has ever gotten stuck with Seesaw They've probably talked to me Claire is like she's a super problem solver She does amazing amazing work to make sure that everyone can do what they want to do with Seesaw There's nothing that I can't fix That's true. She's a big problem solver and Claire is going to tell us a little bit about what does it look like at Seesaw Yeah, so this is the entryway to our office when you first walk in you will see Everyone working at their computers. The office is kind of shaped like a big, uh, L So there this is only two sections of of um desk. This is where we all eat lunch together and play games um Pretty fun stuff. These are our conference rooms when we need to have a phone call Or angela and everyone is in one right now in the Seesaw office Um, we're we're in hide and seek which you can actually see in the picture with that we have that has the blue sign so all of the Rooms are are named after kind of playground games Which are kind of fun and then this is where we have Snacks and you know sometimes when you're working hard you need some brain food, right some energy to really keep thinking So that's that's also important to have as well and actually Claire Doesn't work in the office and I don't work in the office either. Usually we are working From our homes in different states So normally I work from my home in minnesota and Claire works from her home in a different part of california So that's also something to keep in mind too So we're going to talk a little bit about some more engineering words before we kind of answer some more questions about All things coding and girls who code and do other jobs. So some engineering words. What's the first one code? so code is Here it says here the language computers know how to read It's like any other language that you might know english or spanish or chinese But this is the one that the computer speaks and and we use it to tell the computer How it how maybe it should react to something that you do? Um, and then this is actually what some of our code here at seesaw looks like Uh, this is a python. We there's a number of languages that computers understand We use python here. We use javascript I think we have a a little bit of go hidden somewhere in there And this This is this is back end code. So this is python and it's on the back end It's the kind of work that janisha does all the time. Yep, that looks familiar And the next word we're going to look at it's kind of it's called bugs So i'm pretty sure you guys have seen bugs that in your day-to-day life But when talking about programming As much as we'd love to write just clean accurate code the first time around Every now and then we will run into a bug which is just kind of a mistake So here it says on on the screen the computer code that just doesn't work, right? So then it's our job to kind of go and find these bugs and figure out like, you know What's going on how we can fix it? Um, that is actually a portion of my day. Yeah actually Students and teachers help us a lot with this too because if you're using seesaw in your classroom and you're like Something happened or it didn't work, right? Or it did let me do this Make sure you let us know because these are the engineers that fix all that stuff The chance you just ran into a bug exactly you might have discovered one Yeah, and then another term that we sometimes use is the word crash So, um, I'm sure you guys have seen like maybe like a little error messages Like maybe like help you just be like what the next step is if something went wrong But on very sad sad sad occasion The apple just decided to you know what fail Sometimes it's just it's just get to just exit all out and that's when the app crashes And you know usually what happens is you just won't see it on the screen anymore And this is where the common philosophy of like, um, you know Unplugged we plug it back in it's kind of like what the major go-to resolution at this point But yeah, it'll just and we hope that never happens. We don't ever want that to happen Okay, a couple questions what and we're gonna just talk to our engineers about these two What subjects were most important for you in school to be a good coder? Yeah, I would say I didn't take any actual computer science classes until my second year in college So long long after I got out of elementary middle high school Um, but I think I was learning to be a good coder my whole life And I think some of the most important things you can learn are just To be curious to ask why to really try to understand what you're trying to achieve and what how you might accomplish it Good. I'll absolutely piggyback off of what Chelsea just said. Um, I actually didn't take my first class until I got to college All that being said the small things that used to happen in in school right now I'm sure you guys are working in groups figuring out how to like break up big group projects and then kind of work on them Simultaneously to like achieve an end goal is a great skill And then I think the the phrase that almost always pops up is just problem solving skills So you'll find that in every subject, right? I figured out like here's a problem. How do I go about solving it? And thinking about and being curious I did that is a great point I wouldn't say any one specific subject prepared me for this role. Um, it's been an ongoing process, which you guys are all doing right now That's great Um, so clear. I'm going to ask you this question. What did you do in school that helped you with your job today? Yeah, I think my job is kind of Or I guess the things that you need to be good at are kind of similar to the engineers and that When someone writes in and says oh, we ran into this bug or my app crashed or something like that I need to be able to figure out why that happened and then tell the engineers so that they can fix it. Um, so like working on your problem solving skills and Being able to ask good questions To get the information that you need about the problem Um, and just trying to stay positive even though Sometimes it's really frustrating when you don't know why it's broken Exactly. I think that's a really big thing too. And when I was in school, I I um trained to be a teacher So I'm a teacher and I think when I think about my job today. I work with a lot of teachers So I know a lot about Students are working with students and using different technologies But also hopefully giving teachers some really good ideas to try in their classroom with you But I think a big thing to remember is sometimes I don't always have the the answer And I have to work really hard to figure it out and try something and if it doesn't work Oh, I can't give up. I have to just try it a different way or try it again So what we're going to do right now is jump into some questions from your class And we won't have time to answer everybody's question But we want to get through as many as we can and while your teachers may be typing in a couple questions I want to just give out a couple more shout outs. We have, uh, mr. Vonda's class here. We have mr Jornstead's class. We have miss Curtis's class. Hello. Hello We have so many classrooms joining us. We have miss divas's class. Thank you for joining in I'm going to try to see what questions we have coming in um Let's see here So many to choose from so So it looks like uh, kaley and mr. Bert's class um Is maybe asking where do Where do the girls code? Where do you do your coding? Like what what do you need? Maybe what are the tools you need to do it? What would you say all you really need is a computer or access to a computer We spend a lot of time in the office that you just saw pictures of because that lets us all be in the same place and work together and we do a lot of A lot of talking with other engineers and and other people in the company that are not engineers But who spend a lot of time thinking about what you guys might need from sisa Um, mr. Wissy sixth grade class in canada wants to know who or what inspired you to be a coder Um, I'll say when I took my first um intro to programming class um at berkeley I think I just I was kind of amazed to see like how how quickly you could start building things So um at the end of the day like a lot of the applications that we use on your ipad iphone Feel a little like magical. I like oh, you know like somebody built this somewhere But kind of getting an understanding of how these um, you know applications were built like I I felt this need to like learn some more That's awesome Claire this is a question for for you and it's coming from Um, I think it's miss chung remix class and they're asking how does claire help if someone far away has a problem with sisa Well, usually um, they email me at the help center and Give me some information on what the problem is Sometimes I call them on the phone to get more information or I'll talk to them over the computer so I can see what's going on and um But yeah, most of the communication I do is through email And people just reaching out for for help Thanks, claire Miss banners class wants to know how many people work at sisa. So Um, when I well when claire started how many people were here claire I was the fifth person hired at sisa and I I think I think I was number 10 and um Now we're over 60 people that work at sisa. So we keep growing lots more people come and join um shout out to miss us garcia smith's class In near chicago. I know you're close to chicago and illinois there um Did you belong to a club in school? That's a great question Did you guys belong to any clubs in school for coding? um So like I mentioned, I think I didn't have my I had my first exposure to like s specific Of clubs when I was in college But in college I was part of like a women's and science and engineering club Which was great because I had all these additional resources Um, and just like another group of people to kind of like figure out what my career might look like What class was you taking college that was super helpful and you'll probably find that on any campus. So cool um a question coming in from Miss mc daniel's class from julia who designed sisa's logo and I think the person who actually designed it is adrian um One of the co-founders of sisa. I'm pretty sure that was him claire can back me up if she knows the answer But I'm pretty sure he was the one that designed it, but definitely he didn't have to do it on his own There's lots of things that you'll notice. Um Which we talked about before there's a lot of working together and sharing ideas and getting People's comments or questions or feedback about something that you created too. So that happens a lot um, let's see other questions coming in There's so many. So thanks for sticking with us here. Oh, this is an interesting question from miss fauci's class What does your day look like at sisa is at adam is asking? Boy, I think everyone's day is probably different. Claire. Do you want to give us maybe What does your day look like at the start of your day? When I first get into work, I um do what we call Is sweeping the inbox, which means I will go and I will look at every single email that came in overnight and look for any that look, um worry some like Bugs or Recording anything sisa is not working. Oh, no I'll look for those first if they are big issues Then I work with my team to solve them as quickly as possible um, and then work on the less urgent Um less urgent emails after that. So big problem first little or problems after Yeah, and my day is is very similar. So I usually check in with our communities Of teachers that sometimes share on facebook or on twitter I look at my email, but I also start working on some big projects usually to help Maybe with some new ideas to support different teachers or different members of our community And what about you want to tell us something quick about your day? Yeah, I I usually start my day like already having an idea of what I'm going to do that day So I I don't have to sweep the inbox quite the other Super helpful support members of our team do um, but Usually what I do is I I sort of break down a bigger project I'm working on into smaller pieces and give myself little goals for the day and then I I spend a lot of time just sitting at my computer and coding and the rest of the time talking to the Rest of my members on my team Awesome Um, we're gonna we have time for maybe one or two more questions will go really fast So we have some fourth graders in old bridge, new jersey They are wondering when did seesaw begin when was the app made? So when I was teaching kindergarten in 2014 I started to get to work with the the app when they were first building it It didn't even have a name yet. So that was in 2014 And then it launched or was available to everyone in january of 2015 So it's been around a little while, but there's still lots lots more things coming Coming with seesaw. So we're gonna say goodbye, but I want to thank a couple more shout outs miss bachman's class Miss divas class, uh, miss caruso's class. Thank you so much for being here. Miss mcgill's class There's miss reeves class miss perones class Mr. Van lose class. Thank you so much. And again, we can't answer everyone's question But we hope that we sparked some curiosity in you and that you will start investigating Maybe some things that you can kind of take apart or fix But you can also check out our website for some more resources like maybe designing a class icon Or some other things related to coding and girls who code resources are there too. So thanks everyone for coming We'll see you next time. Bye