Sara Chipps is Building Smart Jewelry for a Smarter Generation

Sara Chipps is Building Smart Jewelry for a Smarter Generation

Sara Chipps is the Founder and CEO at Jewelbots which builds friendship bracelets for the iPhone era. She also co-founded Girl Develop It, a non-profit that helps women become software engineers, and she served as the CTO of Flatiron School, a developer bootcamp in NYC. Sara will be speaking at SIGNAL, our developer conference for communications May 24-25 in San Francisco. Join us at SIGNAL and meet Sara along with 2,000 other developers. Register here and use code RADIO for 20% off your ticket.

Recently, my colleague Greg Baugues caught up with Sara on Twilio Radio and learned about how she got into software engineering as a home-schooled kid (learning C), finding community, and transitioning from software to hardware at Jewelbots. She tells us about programming the friendship bracelets using the Arduino IDE and inspiring teen girls’ interest in STEM through her own company and other organizations like First Robotics.

Sara offers some strategies to consider when getting involved with organizations like Girl Develop It and helping women learn to code. At SIGNAL, you’ll see Sara share some of her Internet of Things experience building smart jewelry for a smarter generation.