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Dr. Stephen R. Foster is a researcher, author, and co-founder of multiple social enterprises with a mission to teach teachers how to teach coding. A fierce advocate for the power of coding to bring about worldwide change, he has himself coded to generate peer-reviewed scientific results, coded to build educational technology solutions for teachers and students, and coded to bootstrap educational startups and non-profit organizations out of thin air. All in all, these countless lines of code have all been in service of a single vision: to establish coding education as a basic human right across the globe. In short, he codes to teach coding.

Dr. Lindsey D. Handley is a researcher, entrepreneur, teacher, and author. For the last 10 years, the National Science Foundation has funded the research, design work, and the social enterprises that she operates. As a skilled coder, data scientist, and biochemist, she envisions a world in which we no longer suffer from a worldwide shortage of scientific fluency. To this end, she fights for the unification of science and education on two fronts: the use of science to improve education; and the improved teaching of science worldwide. In short, she applies science to design better ways of teaching science.

Together, they are the co-founders and leaders of ThoughtSTEM and MetaCoders.org – two social enterprises that have touched the lives of hundreds of thousands of beginning coders worldwide.