Presentations

These are some of the many presentations I've given over the years. Many of them use the Impress.js presentation framework and look their best in Google Chrome. Use the arrow keys to navigate through the slides, or press [Esc] to see an overview of the entire presentation.

2021

Lecture Time - a short, silly presentation for friends

2018

Polymorphism in C++ - April 20, 2018

Lecture Notes & Examples (ZIP)

Computational Thinking - January 20, 2018

2017

USD 383 Manhattan Summer STEM: Mission to Mars - June 5-29, 2017
- Day 1 (Presentation Slides)
  - Scratch Wiki - Blocks
  - Scratch Spirograph
- Day 2 (Presentation Slides)
  - Potatoes on Mars
- Day 3 (Presentation Slides)
  - Mars Hexadecimal Messages
- Day 4 (Presentation Slides)
  - Mars Pathfinding
- Taught by Jorge Valenzuela and Brooke Snyder (USD 383)
CIS 526 - CSS & Bootstrap - March 16, 2017
DEN 301 - Building Creativity - March 8, 2017
- Building Creativity Handout (PDF)

2016

Kansas 4-H Youth Leadership Forum - Building Creativity - November 19, 2016 at Rock Springs
- Building Creativity Handout (PDF)
ACM Programming Contest Practice Session
USD 383 Manhattan Summer STEM: Simulating The Martian - June 6-30, 2016
- Day 1 (Presentation Slides)
  - Scratch Wiki - Blocks
  - Scratch Spirograph
- Day 2 (Presentation Slides)
  - Potatoes on Mars
- Day 3 (Presentation Slides)
  - Mars Hexadecimal Messages
- Day 4 (Presentation Slides)
  - Mars Pathfinding
- Taught with Brooke Snyder (USD 383)
Kansas 4-H Discovery Days - June 1-2, 2016
- Computing Unplugged - Part 1: History
- Computing Unplugged - Part 2: Algorithms
- Computing Unplugged - Part 3: Data & Searching
- Video Game & AI Programming
CIS 625 Final Project: Parallelizing the NEAT Method using UPC — Paper (PDF)
ACM Git Tutorial - February 15th ACM Tech Talk

2015

Kansas 4-H Youth Leadership Forum - Building Creativity - November 21, 2015 at Rock Springs
- Building Creativity Handout (PDF)
Marshall County Extension Board Meeting - August 12, 2015
USD 383 Manhattan Summer STEM: Mission to Mars - June 1-26, 2015
- Day 1 (Presentation Slides)
  - Scratch Wiki - Blocks
  - Scratch Spirograph
- Day 2 (Presentation Slides)
- Day 3 (Presentation Slides)
  - PacMan Starter File
  - Rover Starter File
- Taught with Josh Weese (KSU), Jesse Peters (USD 383), Brooke Snyder (USD 383)
Kansas 4-H Ambassador Training - Effective Use of Social Media - February 21, 2015 at Rock Springs
Kansas 4-H Discovery Days - May 27-28, 2015
- Exploring Computer Science (Part 1: History)
- Exploring Computer Science (Part 2: Algorithms)
- Exploring Computer Science (Part 3: The Internet)
- Creating Video Games using Scratch
  - Scratch One Tap Quest Game Starter File
    Inspired by One Tap Quest

2014

Hour of Code hosted by K-State ACM and ACM-W
Scratch HPC Lessons
National Extension Technology Conference (NETC) May 19-22, 2014
- Lessons Learned from Teaching
- Create Impressive Presentations with Impress.js
  - Zip Folder containing Impress.js Files
USD 383 Manhattan Summer STEM: iCode - June 2-27, 2014
- Day 1 (Presentation Slides)
  - Scratch Wiki - Blocks
  - Scratch Spirograph
- Day 2 (Presentation Slides)
  - Scratch Robo Quiz Starter File
  - Scratch 1945 Game Starter File
- Day 3 (Presentation Slides)
- Day 4 (Presentation Slides)
- Taught with Josh Weese (KSU), Shailaja Maddala (KSU), Scott Bell (KSU), Jesse Peters (USD 383), Katie Rhodes (USD 383)
Kansas 4-H Discovery Days - June 4-5, 2014

2013

KAWSE 2013 Presentation June 5-7, 2013
- Lesson Plan
- Scratch Starter File (Fixed 6/27/2013)
- High Performance Computing concepts with a wind speed/direction modeling program written in Scratch
- Presented with Dr. Dan Andresen, Scott Bell, and Nathan Bean
- Presented at the KAWSE GROW program's summer workshop
Middle School Computer Science October 25, 2013