Fellowships 2019

Evelyn Masso and Stalgia Grigg will be working alongside the larger community of open source contributors to realize a 1.0 release of p5.js. Stalgia will kick off the fellowship with a focus on WebGL stability improvements, expanding developer documentation, and creating new channels of communication for contributors. Processing Foundation p5.js Fellows are supported in part by a grant from the Mozilla Open Source Support program.

Evelyn Masso and Stalgia Grigg will be working alongside the larger community of open source contributors to realize a 1.0 release of p5.js. Evelyn will also be focusing on various tooling in the p5.js repository to improve the p5.js contributor experience. Processing Foundation p5.js Fellows are supported in part by a grant from the Mozilla Open Source Support program.

This project consists of writing curriculum that teaches students how to integrate sound, animation, and interactivity into a creative computational artifact in p5.js. I'm focused on developing tools for inner city teachers who have little experience teaching topics in CS to urban communities. This year’s Teaching Fellows are Computer Science teachers in the Software Engineering Program of New York City Public Schools, and their fellowships are a collaboration with the New York City Department of Education’s CS4All Initiative.

Emily and her students will experiment with motion detection. They will create an interactive projection that dancers will use in their school’s annual Digital Dance performance. Emily will use her findings to create a unit of study on motion for the NYC DOE to share with fellow computer science teachers. This year’s Teaching Fellows are Computer Science teachers in the Software Engineering Program of New York City Public Schools, and their fellowships are a collaboration with the New York City Department of Education’s CS4All Initiative.

SuaCode aims to teach millions across Africa how to code by exploiting the proliferation and the untapped capabilities of smartphones. This project will involve recruiting mentors, developing an automatic grading system, and delivering a smartphone-based online coding course that teaches programming using Processing to high school and college students across Africa using the Android Processing Development Environment application and Google Classroom, a free learning management system.

Our goal is to empower people of the Indian community of all backgrounds to learn how to program. This will be achieved by providing Processing tools to the Indian community in their native language, Hindi, and preparing educators by collaborating with various NGOs and individuals to build a more diverse community around software.

Doeke Wartena is working on a library for creating Graphical User Interfaces. Instead of the traditional retained mode system, this library will use an immediate mode, which will allow for dynamic interfaces. For example 'if (on(CLICK, button())) println("!")' would create a button that when clicked would print "!" in the console.

Matilda's fellowship aims to teach TGNC (trans and gender nonconforming youth) basic programming as a means of self expression and digital literacy in a personal security and queer privacy context. As a peer advocate, this project will expose us to computational design and machine learning as either a means of digital literacy or personal empowerment.

My project aims to make p5.js more accessible in China, especially within the underrepresented women and non-male identified groups. To counter the fact that most online educational resources such as YouTube are banned in China, I will record p5.js video tutorials for beginners in Mandarin and share them on Chinese video sites. After the fellowship, I am planning to partner with other female creative coders in China to host p5.js workshops for girls, women, and other non-male identified people, as well as post interviews with role models in the Processing and p5.js community on Chinese social media.