Rob and Jason are joined by Sara Chipps to discuss Jewelbots, Arduino and getting girls interested in STEM fields.

Sara Chipps is a JavaScript developer based in NYC. She has been working on Software and the Open Source Community since 2001. She’s been obsessed with hardware and part of Nodebots since 2012.

She is the CEO of Jewelbots, a company dedicated towards drastically changing the number of girls entering STEM fields using hardware.

She was formerly the CTO of Flat Iron School, a school dedicated to teaching people of all ages how to build software and launch careers as software developers.

In 2010 she cofounded Girl Develop It, a non-profit focused on helping more women become software developers. Girl Develop It is in 45 cities, and has taught over 17,000 women how to build software.

News

• The C++ Annotations, a free up-to-date learners book/reference manual
• Choosing "Some C++" Over C
• GCC's move to C++
• PacifiC++

Sara Chipps

• @SaraJChipps
• Sara Chipps' Blog

Links

• Jewelbots
• Jewelbots Support
• Jewelbots is a friendship bracelet that teaches girls how to code
• Johnny Five
• Girl Develop It
• Flat Iron School

Sponsors

• Incredibuild
• JetBrains