Melissa "Bee" Bube
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Melissa "Bee" Bube is a Sr. Engineering Outreach Director at Inmar Intelligence.
Passionate about accessibility and inclusion, Bee is a Certified Professional in Web Accessibility, or CPWA (awarded for earning both Web Accessibility Specialist [WAS] and Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies [CPACC] certifications from the International Association of Accessibility Professionals [IAAP]).
Bee also cares deeply about building pathways to technology careers, particularly for folks who have traditionally been underrepresented in STEAM. Bee is the head coach for a high school FIRST Robotics Competition team, the all-girls team "Girls on Fire", and works with other robotics teams and programs as Co-Director of Engineering Education at Winston-Salem's science and learning museum, Kaleideum. Bee is a founding steering committee member of Inmar Intelligence's LGBTQIA+ affinity group, PRIDE. Bee also works closely with the steering committee for Inmar Intelligence's Empowering Women group.
Training Future Technologists: Building pathways for the future through FIRST Robotics
One of the greatest challenges in technology is a combination of succession planning and having a deep pool for technical talent.
FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition in Science and Technology) Robotics is a program that targets young people from early elementary school through high school to teach students how to lead and manage projects and build their technical skills, while also learning how to manage stakeholders, requirements, budgets, communication, and collaboration — all things that uniquely prepare them for work as software engineers in the future.
Learn how the FIRST Robotics program can develop thoughtful, well-rounded technologists for our teams both broadly and through the lens of Girls on Fire 5679, an all-girls FIRST Robotics Competition team from North Carolina, coached by Melissa "Bee" Bube.
Integrating Accessibility into an Agile SDLC
Accessibility is a key part of ensuring our applications can reach and serve the widest possible audience.
In order to most effectively and efficiently make our products more accessible, it is important to "shift left".
We will cover approaches for integrating accessibility at all points of an agile software development lifecycle (SDLC); beginning as early in the process as possible.
CodeStock 2020 Sessionize Event
Music City Tech 2019 Sessionize Event
Code on the Beach 2019
A recording of Ethics and Algorithms as presented at Code on the Beach 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQZqosEetAE
CodeStock 2019 Sessionize Event
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