Alice Fisher's Capstone Project Blog

A few days ago I was offered and then accepted a full-time software engineering position where I am currently working as an intern for the past 5 months. As I near the end of the internship, I’ve been asked to report on my overall experience. I applied for the software engineering position in late March,…

I am 5 months into a 6-month software engineering internship at Code.org. The latest project I completed was the migration of our main code-dot-org repo from using an outdated fork of the johnny-five package that hadn’t been touched since January 2018 to the latest release of its upstream. johnny-five is an open source, firmata protocol…

I will be 50 years old next spring. That’s a big milestone for most people, and at this stage in life, many folks start thinking about retirement and calculating how many years until they can retire. I have been in education since 1996, inside the classroom teaching and outside the classroom supporting teachers. But I…

My daughter Mia was in competitive gymnastics and after 9 years of gymnastics, was ready to move on. My husband and I had climbed in rock climbing gyms every so often in the past, and so we suggested that she try bouldering since there is a top-notch gym close by our home. She instantly fell…