[MacTUG] Coding Pathways?

[Luis Marroquin]

Hey Donald


No worries but we did schedule the apple rep to another meeting for that day. I’ll keep on the lookout for another opportunity. 

Hope all is well. 
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Luis A. Marroquin
Apple Inc. 
Technical Consultant - K12
lmarroquin at apple.com
Cell: 416-846-5814
 
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> On Nov 7, 2018, at 12:00 PM, Donald Duff-McCracken <dsmccrac at uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> 
> Greetings
> Luis (from Apple) contacted me last week and is wondering if anyone would find it valuable to meet with him and one of his coworkers about Apple’s role on supporting the integration of coding into school curriculums. Sorry I did not get this out sooner but I have been away from work a bit during this time. If there is sufficient interest, perhaps something can be arranged.
>  
> When I look at the links (see below) it looks like it is more focused on k-12 but it sounds like they work with universities as well. At any rate, it looks like would be of interest more to those doing instruction than those doing IT support.
>  
> If you know of anyone that may interested, perhaps you can have them contact Luis directly, due to the lack of time between now and the proposed event.
>  
> And Luis, thanks for sending this offer out and any time you think there may be something relevant, place contact us!!
>  
> Don
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> Donald Duff-McCracken 
> Technical Services Manager
> Mapping, Analysis & Design
> Faculty of Environment
> University of Waterloo
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> From: Luis Marroquin <lmarroquin at apple.com> on behalf of Luis Marroquin <lmarroquin at apple.com>
> Date: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 at 3:26 PM
> To: Donald Duff-McCracken <dsmccrac at uwaterloo.ca>
> Subject: Coding Pathways?
>  
> Don,
>  
> In the interest of keeping channels open..
>  
>  I have a colleague of mine, Bob Bajwa coming to town during the week of Nov 12th and his focus is working with School Divisions, Colleges, and Universities integrating Coding into their curriculum plans. 
>  
> Apple has a whole program both apps and deliverables around the Swift Programming Language for teachers and students and available for free to use. As long as you own Apple devices you can leverage this for both coding and computational thinking.
>  
> See here for further details:
> https://www.apple.com/ca/education/teaching-code/
> https://www.apple.com/ca/everyone-can-code/
>  
> I’m trying to gage if there would be any interest in having him come in to meet with stakeholders in your faculties that you could refer us to?  He has some availability to meet on
> Nov 16 or maybe late in the day (after 3PM ) on the 15th as we’ll be at Waterloo Region DSB.
>  
> Let me know what you think.
>  
> Thanks
>  
> - L.
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> Luis A. Marroquin
> Senior Technical Consultant
> Apple Inc.
> lmarroquin at apple.com
> (416) 846-5814
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