TechXploration
Vikas Gupta: Designing Robots that teach Kids to Code
- When
- Wed Jan 15, 2014
- Where
- PayPal Town Hall
- Time
- 6 PM - 8PM
- Tags
- Education, Technology
Description
Should children learn to code? Vikas Gupta, CEO and co Founder of Play-i thinks so. Can they? Absolutely.Armed with research done at Tufts and MIT on childhood learning, Gupta and co-founders Saurabh Gupta (Apple) and Mikal Greaves (Frog Design) created Bo and Yana, two programmable interactive robots that look and act a lot like toys, but are specially designed to teach your toddler to program
Meet Bo and Yana and Xplore
+ What is computational thinking and why it's important to start early.
+ the research done at Tufts and MIT on young children's learning processes and how young children can grasp programming concepts with blocks that contained instructions and sequences
+ What Play-i tested to assess both engagement and learning, how testing with kids is different from testing with adults, and how Play-i landed on their final design.
About Vikas Gupta
Gupta founded Jambool that was acquired by Google in August 2010. Gupta joined Google as the Head of Consumer Payments after the acquisition. Prior to founding Jambool, Gupta worked at Amazon.com, where he led the payments and web services groups. Gupta attributes his father as the first entrepreneur he knows and his inspiration to become an entrepreneur himself.
Agenda
6:05 PM Dinner and mingling
7:05 PM Vikas Gupta
7:25 PM Meet Bo & Yana
7:45 PM Q + A (Tweet #PayPalTechX)
How to find us: TechXploration takes place at PayPal HQ in the Town Hall building, which faces North First St. Park anywhere.
Public Transit Info: PayPal Town Hall is directly across the street from the Karina Station of VTA/Light Rail in San Jose.
This event is FREE. Please RSVP at meetup.com/TechXploration
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