Apple Southeast Asia
Swift “Thinkering” and Presentation Workshops

Apple Southeast Asia partnered with Tinkercademy to provide a free, year-long Swift coding course for interested middle school students in Singapore. The accelerated course focused on mobile app design and was typically offered in person. Due to COVID restrictions, however, students met online through Discord and Webex. Fifty students participated in this three-hour online workshop.
I was invited to deepen students' experience through two additional workshop offerings. Further along in the curriculum, I was asked to develop and teach workshops around what I call Tinkering, Thinkering, and Making with Meaning. The goal was to help students connect who they are to what they were creating while expanding their project vision to consider the needs and perspectives of potential end users.
During these workshops, I introduced students to the collaborative online workspace Mural. Toward the end of the course, as they prepared their final presentations, I also developed and led workshops to help them tell the story of their project journey using iMovie.