Preparing for POSSCON

Currently listening to: 
Kettel - Boekebaas 
Bassic - Daydreamer

Adding a currently listening to. I think I'll start adding that to my blog posts from now on seeing as how some of my friends ask me for new music to listen to all the time, I might as well give them a easy way of finding new songs ;)

Finally the blog where I get to pick the speakers I'll be going to attend during POSSCON. A few of my friends are actually going to be presenting at the event and I have been asked to attend their talks, but I'll list the talks that I'll be attending for the sake of the class instead.

The first talk that I want to attend is one that I already signed up to do with my current boss Clay. There is a special workshop held on the second day where SparkFun is going to be teaching us how to solder, and then later in the day teach us how to program our newly made simon says game. The class is going to be held by a few people from SparkFun and should make an interesting second day to POSSCON (that and I get to annoy Clay on the ride back by playing simon says the ENTIRE ride back to Charleston. I'm sure he would love that).

The second talk that I want to attend is actually a SparkFun employee who is giving a talk on how to teach STEM in schools. Lindsay Craig will be leading the session. I have already talked about my wanting to work in education here, here, here, and here. So I feel like this is a class that is almost required of me to attend. Hopefully he talks about motivational techniques like gamification and other types of external and internal motivators that we can instil in the younger generation.

The third talk that I want to attend is "Javascript: the language every developer should know" by Tom Wilson from Jack Russell Software. Seeing as how I have met Tom a few times (BarCamp, Code workshops for test driven development, Hack-a-thons) I feel like I should trust him with a title that has an absolute, "Everyone should know". The abstract for the talk indicates that Javascript has matured to the point of being something beyond just a scripting language, and I feel like I should look into it more than I have in the past.

Other than attending the talks my job during POSSCON will be to sit at the Obsidian booth giving out stickers and showing off the functionality of the project. I can't wait to see if there is any hype or feedback from them. Besides, I'll be keeper of the stickers that everyone in our class wants so bad >:D