Hi all!  I'm Brent Yorgey.  I am actively involved in the Haskell academic and open-source communities and I teach CS at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, USA.


- What education-related projects are you involved in, or have you been involved in previously?

I have taught several college-level classes using Haskell: my (semi-famous) "CIS 194" course at U Penn, a general FP course, and a programming languages course.  I am also developing a new functional teaching language for use in a discrete math course (I'll be sure to write more about it on this list in time).  I am also particularly motivated to think about FP in K-12 education because my son is 7 years old and shows great aptitude for and enjoyment of computers and mathematics; pretty soon it's going to be time to introduce him to some basic functional programming, possibly using CodeWorld and/or my discrete math functional teaching language.  (It's not quite time yet though because his typing skills are not good enough; he has done a bit of programming with blocks-based languages e.g. on code.org, but I'm not aware of any *functional* block-based languages.  If you know of any, please let me know!)

I don't think I have any particular responses to the other questions off the top of my head, but I look forward to engaging in conversation and hearing what others are up to and thinking about.

-Brent