Maker Faire Miami 2023
Tech Professionals: Make an Impact while Keeping Your Day Job!
Home: Florida, United States
Learn how you can use your skills to inspire the coders and creators of tomorrow. Volunteer with TEALS to make a difference in communities and schools that stand to gain the most from your knowledge and expertise.
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Maker
Willy Orozco
Willy is the South Florida Regional Manager for the Microsoft Philanthropies Program TEALS and President of CSTA Miami. With TEALS he helps build sustainable computer science (CS) programs in high schools with a focus on serving students excluded from learning CS because of race, gender and geography, and classroom teachers to learn to teach CS on their own by pairing them with industry volunteers and proven curricula. With CSTA Miami he focuses on building the community of CS educators and improving CS education in general. These combined efforts have allowed him to, - Multiply TEALS reach and impact by 3 times since its inception in Miami. - Facilitate TEALS expansion into Broward and Palm Beach Counties. - Increase CSTA teacher participation. - Create multiple professional development opportunities for teachers. - Help stablish CS Honor Societies at schools. - Create hackathon opportunities for students. - Collaborate with multiple leaders in CS education in the state. Prior to joining TEALS,
