Outbreak Outreach - How COVID broke our program for the better
summary
Conference program describes moving GPN workshops online and reports concrete results: an MVP built with Zoom breakout rooms, Grok Learning for exercises and Grok live tutoring, plus a custom bingo board for team points. Two pilots—Operation Apple Pie (15 experienced students) and Operation Banana Bread (32 mixed-level students)—reveal breakout logistics and timing fail, show‑and‑tell soars, bingo needs tighter coding tasks, and a traveling-lecturer model replaces lecture pods to regain coding time and scale toward regional nodes.
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chapters (23)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:22What is GPN
- 3:15GPN values
- 5:07What happens at the event
- 6:25What do girls like
- 7:16GPN is different
- 8:44Obvious things
- 10:00Creating an MVP
- 12:07Putting it all together
- 14:18Schedule
- 15:17Tech Stack
- 16:58Grok
- 17:45Backstage
- 18:18Bingo Board
- 19:35How it went
- 20:43Banana Bread
- 21:16How did it go
- 21:58What do we get
- 22:39What else we want
- 23:24Lecture pods
- 24:20GP Online
- 25:02Breakout Activities
- 25:37Outro
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