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AI April Showcase - Teaching Teachers AI
Backlogged field note from the May 2 Geeks&& / DevSA room: the teacher-AI table, the Radius Center energy, and why the community signal mattered.
BacklogBlog
Publishing soon->Public board is using the curated fallback dataset. Update Notion or refresh local snapshot data before pushing to main.
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Al Dungo
Incoming Doctoral Student | SMART Scholar | Community Technologist
Live now · S14·D13
Sprint 14Week 2 of 2
Jul 5 — Jul 18
⏱️ 1days left
33%
4/12 Done
Public Sprint Lanes
🔬 Doctoral Pipeline
50%
🎥 Field + Content
25%
🌆 Community Orbit
50%
Current Sprint Board
Curated public snapshot✅ Done (4)
Spring 2026 semester closed and final grades submitted
Site nav restructure, /build hub, and community voice CTA shipped to prod
BSidesSATX 2026 attended — field content documented and ready
SMART Origin Story Short published to YouTube and embedded on /smart
🚧 Doing (4)
Sprint 12 blog draft finalized and ready to publish
SMART Origin Story long-form — voice memos to blog draft
Techs in the City field-note cadence — first repeatable publishing loop
Capella DIT orientation — setup, SMART tuition routing, first syllabus
📋 Next (4)
Day One doctoral content — night-before post Jul 12 + Day One post Jul 13
Dispatch backlog — AI April, Datanauts, and Geekdom Tech Day field notes
Community Voice survey form live — swap placeholder URL in codebase
August road arc logistics locked — remote work, van checklist, coverage plan
Operations Window
Sprint 14 — July 2026The doctorate starts July 13. That is the only thing that matters this sprint. Everything else — the dispatch backlog, the field-note cadence, the content pipeline — runs in service of that milestone. Establish the four-lane rhythm before the calendar gets heavier.
Building
+Capella DIT orientation — setup, SMART tuition routing, first syllabus
+TITC dispatch cadence — first repeatable publishing loop
+Community Voice survey form — swap placeholder to live Google Form
Attending
+Day One of doctoral program — July 13, 2026
+SA community rhythm — local events and field presence
+August road arc prep — logistics and coverage planning
Creating
+Sprint 12 blog — drafted, ship it this sprint
+SMART Origin Story long-form — voice memos to blog
+Day One content — night-before and Day One posts
Doctoral student first. The four lanes are running. Document everything.
Field Notes + Dispatches
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Datanauts - SQL That Actually Ships
First official field correspondent note owed from May 7: Jag Sai's practical SQL workflow, the Datanauts room, and what the night said about the local data lane.
BacklogBlog
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Techs in the City - Intro Opener
The framing piece for the field lane: technologist, doctoral student, builder, and San Antonio community reporter all in one system.
QueuedYouTube
Publishing soon->[J] Community Orbit — "We don't build alone"
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DevSADev Community→ visitG
Greater Gaming SocietyGaming & Edu→ visitT
TAMUSACampus→ visitA
ACM-SAPro Network→ visitG
Geeks &&Social Tech→ visitA
Alamo Tech CollectiveMakers→ visit📅 SA Tech Calendar → devsa.community
"Support local. Show up. The pipeline starts with community."
🔬 Doctoral Field Study
Who actually gets to write the rules for the future?
Washington and Silicon Valley are currently writing the rules for the AI age, but they rarely ask the rest of us how we actually feel about it. As a doctoral student and community field reporter, I am building a ground-truth dataset to take into the rooms where policies are made.
You do not need to be a tech expert to answer this. In fact, if you have never touched an AI tool in your life, your perspective is exactly what is missing from the research. I want to hear from:
- ›Students and recent grads trying to figure out what's next
- ›Legacy workers worried about what AI means for their job
- ›Teachers adapting their classrooms without any real guidance
- ›Small business owners navigating tools they weren't trained on
- ›People who have never touched an AI tool in their life
Numbers change policies, and your voice belongs in this data.
July + August Arc
July is the doctorate starting — everything else runs in support of that. August is when the road opens: federal tech and AI conferences on the national circuit, field reports from rooms most tech creators never enter. SA has to be clean before the van leaves.
Ahead:
+First Capella DIT term underway — Day One is July 13
+Dispatch backlog cleared — AI April, Datanauts, Geekdom Tech Day field notes
+August road arc logistics locked — remote work, van checklist, coverage plan
+Day One content documented and published
Doctoral student first. Everything else is proof of work.
💾 System Stats
GitHub Contributions
📝 Content PublishedBlogs: 5 | Videos: 2
🎯 Velocity
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