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02: Founder of Code Red Education - Michael Palmer
People Behind the Innovation
English - January 12, 2016 04:00 - 16 minutes - 7.73 MBCareers Business Education Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: 01: Executive Director of The Disruption Department - Nate Marschalk
Michael Palmer is the founder and CEO of Code Red Education. Code Red Education develops integratable and customizable instructional materials to allow K-12 institutions to teach computer science and coding skills. That's fancy for: making it easier to teach coding in schools. Boom! We can all agree that is a cool thing. Our conversation includes a couple of random pop-culture references, a philosophical discussion of coding as a foreign language, and exploring the moment Micheal put everything on the line to become an entrepreneur because he believed education could be improved through innovation.