From Harvard to Tumo
2015-01-14
News
The much awaited Music Coding Workshop with the Harvard Boys kicked off this week. Antuan Tran, Evan Yao and Andrew Sheeler are all second year students at Harvard University who decided to dedicate two weeks of their vacations to teaching web programming at Tumo.
They were inspired to teach here when they met a fellow student from Armenia who told them about Tumo. After researching the center and its educational program, they proposed to create two workshops combining programming and music, one for beginners and another for more experienced programmers.
Based on Antuan's experience making a musical harmonizer for a first year project at Harvard, the boys created a hands on program involving musical analysis, with the belief that music is something which everyone engages with. "We were surprised at the level of dedication of the students and the proficiency of some of the more advanced participants," said Antuan. "We revised the workshop curriculum shortly after arriving here to make it more challenging and ambitious."
Antuan, Evan and Andrew are Engineering, Computer Science and Linguistics majors at Harvard. They aim to share their experience and encourage students to keep coding in their respective areas of interest after the end of the workshop.