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SAVE YOUR SEAT! Attend Blockly Summit 2024 • June 4-5 • Google HQ in Mountain View, CA USA

Blockly Summit 2024

June 4-5, 2024 In-Person Google HQ in California

Get a free front-row seat to the future of block-based programming

Join us in-person on June 4-5 at Google HQ to hear the latest from the Google Blockly team, and talks by leaders of block-based programming applications.

We'll discuss Blockly's future product roadmap, advancing accessibility in block-based programming, roundtable discussions about the future of CS education and workshops, including how to create generative AI apps built with Blockly.

You should attend if you are...

  • A developer who builds with Blockly or block-based applications

  • Work in product, engineering or manage a block-based programming tool

  • A curriculum designer of experiences that integrate block-based coding

Explore the future of block-based programming

Join us as we discuss these topics and themes:

Accessibility

Improving accessibility features across block-based coding tools

Generative AI

Discuss the landscape of gen AI and block-based programming

CS Education

Tools, features and ideas that improve the learning experience

Product Talks

Talks, hands-on workshops and Blockly library upgrade stories

Talks by experts from top Blockly partners

With curated talks, workshops, and roundtable discussions, our agenda been organized to empower, share and connect the Blockly community.

What's on the agenda

A preview of workshops and talks at this year's summit includes:

Session

Organization

Topic

Build Generative AI Apps with Aptly (Workshop)

MIT App Inventor

Generative AI

Our journey towards accessible block-based coding

Micro:bit

Accessibility

Blockly as a visuospatial tool for deductive problem solving ability in deaf students

Deaf Kids Code

Accessibility

Exploring automated student code evaluation for teachers

Microsoft

CS Education

Python Programming curriculum concepts using Blockly

MPI-SWS

CS Education

Build your own custom block extensions for Minecraft (Workshop)

Microsoft

Product Talk

Streamlined Sprite Lab dev with plugins after migrating Blockly

Code.org

Product Talk

Tinkercad Codeblocks for 3D and circuits design education

Autodesk

Product Talk

No-code game building within synchronous virtual worlds

Topia Interactive

Product Talk

The agenda will be updated on an ongoing basis

We hope to see you there!

The Blockly community is a special group. We’re excited to come together to help push CS education and block-based programming application forward.

From Joe, Cassandra, and the entire Blockly Team

Have a question? Check out our Summit FAQs.

Have a request or Summit support question? Email Blockly Summit Support

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