 So hi everybody my name is Kayla Banks and like I was saying this kind of lasts me last minute I was literally at my track me yesterday when my dad told me I was gonna be doing a talk so bear with me on these slides So this is a picture of me at skill 11. You see me a little seedling in the back And this is a small group and there's Sarah in the front if you guys know her too And this is a small group of kids in scale. Oh by the way, I'm gonna be talking about why kids should talk of conventions So this is where it all started and this is my first presentation at skill 11 free to be a kid if anybody Has been to scale that longer remember that talk So my first Thank you So my first talk was basically about me using open source that's what I call free to be a kid and how I basically made like an open source fifth grade newspaper and That's crowd was like this is like a big crowd and I was super super super nervous And and this is me at the women in advanced computing And actually I also I teach at different schools And I was actually speaking at this school right on the street from here if you guys are used to Pasadena There's a school called normal cooms and I was talking to some kids We were teaching like code spark and using code spark and there was this little girl in the back And she was super super nervous and remind me just like me when I was in fifth grade To my first talk I was super super nervous and now I'm sitting here talking to you guys and so Yeah, ever since scale they kind of guarded my passion for going to conferences and learning and talking to adults And what a lot of people don't know is that you know kids can talk to adults and adults can learn from kids That's kind of what the inspiration for the kids track at scale and the I don't know if anybody actually went to the kids track Or the kids development that was in room 1-0 across the hall Yeah So me and Justin have been long time and so this is me when I was 13 I was on TV at Melissa Harris Perry show and they chose me to speak for Actually forgot what I was speaking for So yeah, every every time I've been getting bigger and bigger and bigger and people were just sitting like what are you talking? Every time I go to church they be like oh, I saw what your dad posted on Facebook about you What would you possibly be able to talk to adults about? Well one thing people don't know is that it's actually a large large gap Especially for engagement because I know what a lot of people have been talking about engagement There's a large gap of engagement and that's the youth people don't people tend to think they understand the youth You know, they think we're on our phones 24-7 and all that playing games wasting our time But they actually don't know that we have a lot of valuable input Like a lot of perspectives you wouldn't even know from kids like me. And so This is my first keynote when I spoke at Oskon in 2015 and that one went kind of viral And and this is me at scale again last year So I just want to say that speaking at conventions really has brought me a lot of opportunities And you'll see those in the next three to four slides Um It's brought me a lot of opportunities Okay, so um, there's actually my friend John O'Bake and shout out to John. Oh if you guys see them. I really love John This is actually a panel that we did last year and What I don't remember if that was the panel that we also did with The crater of Linux Yeah, like I said, this was kind of last minute so I'm not used to this flow. Okay, so this is also me when I went to the White House So like I was saying all these speaking at these conventions that got me to so many places and I'm only 16 I was invited to the White House to speak for the CS for all event. Okay, so there is a Linus sandwich So you can see there's me and my dad and there's Linus Turbles I want to say after going to the speaker the White House for Obama. This is my peak of speaking at conventions This was taken at the oh, I'm at a time So also, I just wanted to touch bases on it's really important for kids to speak at conventions because Not only have I been able to meet Linus Turbles go to Prague for free There's also colleges that are come reaching out to me I'm only in 10th grade. And so it's a really impressive part of your memory and your resume Anyways, get your kids your cousins nieces nephews get them to speak at conventions especially scale. Thank you