// the classroom

Lessons & how-tos

Teaching is my favorite thing to do with what I know. Grab a lesson for your classroom, a tutorial for yourself, or just see what my students get up to.

// the receipts

Teaching is not a side quest

Helped teach and improve the accessibility of Code with Chompers, a K-6 computing outreach program, working with Dr. Janyl Jumadinova

Authored a six week underwater robotics course for middle and high school students, taught through Allegheny's CIS department

Gave a speed talk on ExecExam at the PyCon 2025 Education Summit

Attended the education track sessions at OCWiC 2025, where I also presented two papers

Taught Arduino, electronics, and IoT to K-12 students as a CIS Technical Leader

Designed every lesson around one rule: each session ends with something visibly working

// lesson plans

Tech lessons

Kids K-6★★★

Play-Doh Circuits

Light up an LED with dough you can squish. The fastest way I know to make a kid fall in love with electronics.

45 minutes · 4 supplies

Middle & high school★★★

Build a Mini Underwater ROV

My six-week course for middle and high schoolers: from first Arduino blink to racing real underwater robots in a lake.

6 weeks · 7 supplies

Middle & high school★★★

Coding with Arduino

The Arduino lessons from my HS and middle school curriculum: four sketches that go from one blinking LED to a full color fade.

Two class periods · 5 supplies

Art & craft lessons

Teens & up★★★

Make a Sticker Sheet with Cricut

From drawing to a weeded, kiss-cut sticker sheet. My full print-then-cut process.

About 2 hours · 6 supplies

Beginner digital artists★★★

Getting Started with Clip Studio Paint

My favorite drawing program. Canvas setup, the stabilizer, and the layer tricks I wish I knew on day one.

1 hour · 2 supplies

// tools i love

The toolbox

Clip Studio Paint

My favorite program for digital drawing and sticker art.

Adobe Suite

Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere for photo, vector, and video work.

Cricut

My sticker factory. Print then cut is a tiny miracle.

Arduino

The friendliest doorway into hardware, for me and for my students.

// how-tos from the blog

Written tutorials

March 25, 2025

Introduction to Arduino

A beginner-friendly guide to the platform behind my robots - from installing the IDE to your first blinking LED.

December 2023

Going Bare Metal: What Stellar Cartography Taught Me

What I learned writing a map-making game in C for the Raspberry Pi Pico, with no operating system underneath me.

// python playground

Python, but make it fun

Python is my favorite language to teach because it gets to the fun part fast. Proof: these are all Python projects.

ExecExam

Open-source Python tool that grades executable exams and gives students AI-powered feedback on failing tests. Poster at PyCon 2025.

Barkbot: The Dog Bark Dashboard

My IoT final project: a Raspberry Pi Pico that listens for barks, ranks the noise on an LED bar graph, and streams it all to a live web dashboard.

Paisley Reimagined

My AI course final project: training a flower identifying object detection model with TensorFlow Lite Model Maker, tested with help from a very patient beagle.

Readable

Python face detection and emotion analysis, run on people I love, exhibited as art. Yes, Python can do that too.

// programs i teach with

Teaching programs

Code with Chompers

A computing outreach program bringing programming, robotics, and computational thinking to K-6 students.

Also in the works

A STEAM summer camp I am helping put together, and more lessons from my K-12 curriculum writing. New worksheets land here as I write them up.