How do you start young people out with STEM skills, and DevOps in particular? Make it useful, make it fun! I taught my nine year old nephew to take his Minecraft game to a whole new level by showing him how to administer a remote Minecraft server, a Docker container running on Digital Ocean.

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2. Hello!
I AM SARA JARJOURA
DevOps Engineer, Teradata
I am passionate about gaming and education
You can find me at @saranicole

3. Howdy!
I AM CYRUS DUCZKOWSKI
aka GRIMREAPER2015
I am here to demonstrate collaborative
learning in the Minecraft community

5. The Urge to Play
Gaming as Motivation
1

6. “
Either I’m going to kill
myself or I’m going to turn
this into a game.
- Jane McGonigal
author, Reality is Broken

7. SUPERBETTER

8. Why do you play?
o “games are fun”
o “my friends play”
o “it’s challenging”

9. ???

10. Playing to Win
Games as Teachers
2

11. Gamification

12. Why not gamify schools?
Questing, looting, leveling ... oh my!

13. game-based learning for
21st-century competencies

14. But first we need a tool
... one that kids want to use

15. copies sold for PC
140,633
servers online
36,002,898 users
registered players
24,153,083 copies

16. Digging for Diamonds
Minecraft for DevOps
3

17. MINECON
LIKE DEVOPS DAYS BOSTON, ONLY MINE-IER

18. Kano Computer
Minecraft Education Edition

19. Docker Image
itzg/minecraft-server
hub.docker.com
MINECRAFT FOR EVEN BIGGER NERDS
Ansible Playbook
saranicole/stem-minecraft
github.com

20. asciinema.org/a/2gojihwmv3k8urg2oujppe66q

22. DO TRY THIS AT HOME!
o * Register on cloud.digitalocean.com
o git clone saranicole/stem-minecraft.git
o pip install –Ur requirements.txt
ansible-playbook main.yml /
--private-key=~/.ssh/minecraft_key
* Costs $$ !
digitalocean.com/help/pricing-and-billing/general

24. Thanks!
ANY QUESTIONS?
You can find me at
@saranicole
sara.jarjoura@teradata.com

25. CREDITS
Special thanks to
the Duczkowski Family
Geoff Bourne (itzg) for the
Docker image

26. LINKS
Kano us.kano.me
Minecraft minecraft.net
SuperBetter superbetter.com
hub.docker.com/r/itzg/minecraft-server
Minecraft-server on Docker Hub
stem-minecraft on Github
github.com/saranicole/stem-minecraft