WEBVTT -- English 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.039 Hi, I'm Amy! 00:00:03.040 --> 00:00:05.945 You might know me on the internet as sailorhg. 00:00:05.945 --> 00:00:09.810 I want to create a series of zines called BubbleSort Zines 00:00:09.898 --> 00:00:11.898 that teach Computer Science concepts through 00:00:11.939 --> 00:00:14.028 through drawings, stories, and fun examples that are 00:00:14.067 --> 00:00:16.068 easy to relate to. 00:00:16.103 --> 00:00:18.103 The purpose would be to frame computer science 00:00:18.158 --> 00:00:20.158 in an accessible way, for high school students 00:00:20.172 --> 00:00:22.963 that might not think computer science is for them. 00:00:23.750 --> 00:00:26.397 They can also be for anyone who is curious about computer science. 00:00:28.535 --> 00:00:31.013 The series of zines would be released one zine per month, 00:00:31.050 --> 00:00:33.051 and would be twenty pages each. 00:00:34.240 --> 00:00:36.622 They would cover topics like abstraction, loops, 00:00:36.624 --> 00:00:39.878 recursion, sorting, circuits, 00:00:39.878 --> 00:00:43.020 logic circuits, hardware hacking, 00:00:43.021 --> 00:00:45.036 cryptography, and more! 00:00:45.037 --> 00:00:49.015 I've been a professional software engineer for six years 00:00:49.039 --> 00:00:51.039 Among other things, I've worked as web a developer at 00:00:51.040 --> 00:00:53.262 Airbnb, and I've done machine learning research 00:00:53.262 --> 00:00:58.405 for ASIMO, Honda Research Institute's humanoid robot. 00:00:58.406 --> 00:01:00.590 I've been drawing all my life, 00:01:00.591 --> 00:01:03.106 and while in grad school for computer science, 00:01:03.107 --> 00:01:05.346 I used drawings and cartoons to help teach 00:01:05.347 --> 00:01:08.754 the department's discrete math classes. 00:01:08.754 --> 00:01:11.584 One of the zines in the series will be about adder circuits, 00:01:11.584 --> 00:01:14.221 and how calculators work. 00:01:14.221 --> 00:01:16.322 When we look inside the zine, there are all these pages waiting 00:01:16.322 --> 00:01:21.361 to be filled with drawings, stories, and explanations. 00:01:21.362 --> 00:01:24.024 This is what kind of content will be covered in this zine: 00:01:24.025 --> 00:01:26.843 Binary numbers, ` 00:01:26.843 --> 00:01:30.796 basic circuits, building a basic circuit, 00:01:30.846 --> 00:01:33.415 logic circuits, building a logic circuit, 00:01:33.415 --> 00:01:38.171 adder circuits, and building you own simple adder circuit. 00:01:38.173 --> 00:01:41.861 Another zine in the series will be about hardware hacking. 00:01:41.862 --> 00:01:45.320 It'll teach you to connect a toy bird to Twitter. 00:01:45.322 --> 00:01:47.974 Here is an excerpt from the introduction: 00:01:47.975 --> 00:01:50.911 Imagine that you're at Hogwarts, and you're taking charms classes. 00:01:50.912 --> 00:01:52.912 What kind of objects would you enchant? 00:01:52.912 --> 00:01:55.415 What would you make them do? Would you enchant a bracelet 00:01:55.415 --> 00:01:58.328 to glow whenever your BFF has something to tell you? 00:01:58.328 --> 00:02:00.724 An umbrella that reminds you "Take me, take me!" 00:02:00.725 --> 00:02:03.069 if it's going to rain that day? 00:02:03.108 --> 00:02:06.448 Embedded programming is what we Muggles have to use 00:02:06.465 --> 00:02:08.466 to attach reactive behaviors 00:02:08.467 --> 00:02:10.592 to ordinary household objects. 00:02:10.592 --> 00:02:12.592 This zine will teach you to make a stuffed bird 00:02:12.593 --> 00:02:14.605 that chirps whenever your friends send you 00:02:14.606 --> 00:02:16.606 messages via Twitter, and explain the magic 00:02:16.608 --> 00:02:19.631 that makes it work. 00:02:19.632 --> 00:02:22.100 Also in this series is a zine called "Secret Messages", 00:02:22.150 --> 00:02:24.150 that teaches basic cryptography, so you can send 00:02:24.151 --> 00:02:26.151 secret messages to your friends. 00:02:27.129 --> 00:02:29.129 With your help, there will be many more zines! 00:02:29.131 --> 00:02:31.131 If you back this project, it will go towards 00:02:31.132 --> 00:02:34.667 writing, printing, binding, and distributing zines. 00:02:34.668 --> 00:02:36.980 You can get zines for yourself, or your favorite teenager, 00:02:36.981 --> 00:02:39.181 donate zines to local high schools, or 00:02:39.181 --> 00:02:42.925 donate hands-on workshops to local high schools. 00:02:42.926 --> 00:02:44.926 So why is this so important? 00:02:44.927 --> 00:02:46.927 All little kids are curious about the world, 00:02:46.929 --> 00:02:49.187 and little girls and little boys perform equally 00:02:49.204 --> 00:02:51.549 in math and science in elementary school. 00:02:51.550 --> 00:02:53.806 When they reach high school, they don't need to be convinced 00:02:53.807 --> 00:02:55.807 to be interested in these subjects, just encouraged 00:02:55.808 --> 00:02:57.808 and supported. 00:02:57.859 --> 00:02:59.859 Computer science and programming are powerful tools 00:02:59.860 --> 00:03:02.912 for expressing creativity and bringing about change. 00:03:02.990 --> 00:03:06.757 Let's make sure that these tools and skills are accessible to everyone!