An insightful interview with several youths ages 6-14. The focus? How they publish on the web in 2017.
What tools do they use? What are their friends using, and why? Do they publish with WordPress?
Why are these questions important to the larger WordPress community? Because it’s vital for current WordPress users, developers, and product maker to know what the next generation is using. When it comes to technology, you don’t adapt – you die. And getting an insight to how youth is publishing on the web is one way to figure that out.
The following are our guests for the Kid’s Panel on Sunday. We’re excited to have them with us and ready to talk with the next generation of Tech and Publishing!
Jayda Washington-Boothe (Age: 9)
Jayda is a 3rd-grade honor-roll student at Manatee Bay Elementary. She has been coding since Kindergarten using ScratchPad, Code, Office365’s SWAY to build structures for Minecraft. She has recently started using WordPress and is a proud member of Black Girls Code- Miami Chapter.
When she is not involved in STEM activities, you will find Jayda running Track and Field, active with The Faith Center Ministries Youth Department, Hip-Hop and Jazz Dance Classes, and The Broward County Mayor’s Chess Challenge.
Her future dream is to run Track and Field in the Olympics, become an engineer, and own and build her own mansion and homeless shelter.
Victoria Dameus (Age: 15)
Victoria was introduced to coding by her computer teacher at 13 years old, she describes herself as competitive smart and funny. She fell in love with coding at Lauderhill 6-12 and started volunteering with Oracle. She has participated in multiple code competitions before and her favorite one was where she had a chance to team up with her best friends and they won the competition!
With the help of CodeCademy Victoria learned how to code websites using HTML, Html5, CSS, Bootstrap, Python, and JavaScript.
Victoria is originally from Haiti and is now in the 10th Grade. When she grows up she hopes to be a web designer/programmer, and a software developer.
Alicia Eugene (Age: 16)
Alicia started coding as a Freshman at Lauderhill 6-12. She is now a Sophomore and likes creating websites with HTM, CSS, Bootstrap and JavaScript.
Alicia began her coding experience through a school event and found she really enjoyed it. When she starting coding competitions against her classmates she realized she was really good at it too. Not long after Alicianbegan volunteering at Oracle and continues to help on the weekends as assistant Coach at least once a month.
Alicia hopes to start learning the Java language soon and looks forward to studying Computer Science in College. She is excited about continuing to learn more code and earn money with her skills.
Titus Brinley (Age: 8)
Titus owns Theta Creative, a business he started to help pay for his karate training. Last year Titus used WordPress to expand the reach of the goods he sells to a larger market. He has sold a wide variety of items ranging from cookies to pincushions, greeting cards, and stuffed Wapuus!
Titus is the creator of the Original Plush Wapuu and posts to the Twitter account @PlushWapuu. He also loves karate and penguins.
Business Twitter: @thetacreative