Bio

José García studied Telecommunications Engineering at the UPC. He started in the programming world preparing multimedia applications for CD and DVD. In 2007 he started at Citilab, where he participates in the beginnings of the application of block visual programming, like Scratch, in the educational world. In 2010 he participated in the creation of S4A (Scratch for Arduino) within the Edutec project. In 2013 he is involved in the organization of the Scratch Conference. He also collaborates with european projects like  Mind the Gap, Jam Today and Pelars.

He currently coordinates the education area at Citilab and the Edulab project, which promotes the teaching of programming and robotics as a transversal language to understand and relate to technology and to develop critical thinking and creativity  in schools.

Project

I want to contribute to improve the connections between Snap!,  Scratch and microBlocks, with the help of  the mates in Faber residency.

Also, I have in mind to add support for microBlocks for some gesture recognition sensors like APDS-9660 or PAJ7620 and then VL53L1X distance sensor.

I hope that this work will be useful to generate new activities in education projects for all the Faber Comunity and for Citilab’s Edulab projecte,  in which I am currently working on.