Real Good Thursdays

Over on Twitch we’re still interviewing some incredibly interesting folks every other Thursday and each episode has been better than the last! We didn’t want to keep the interviews locked on twitch so… now every single Real Good Thursday Interview we’ve ever done is up on our YouTube Channel! These are minimally edited VOD (video on demand) versions of our livestreams, so if you can’t make it on Thursdays at 2pm est/ 11am pst, we got you💅.

Since the last newsletter we’ve interviewed:

Dr Lori Tunstall, Assistant Prof., Colorado School of Mines, helped us build a pink concrete base in Minecraft. We dug into biochar-enhanced, lower-carbon concrete (cement is ~8% of global CO₂), durability, rebar corrosion, and how AI guides materials research and Dr. Lori’s startup ZeroTwelve!
Lucas and Kayla from Pendelton Pride played Grounded 2 (arachnophobia mode on!) with us. We talked about small-town Pride organizing, youth group book club, quarterly gatherings, their annual fall Pride event and how Real Good AI is going to partner on ethical AI workshops for teens!
Cookie Brigade’s Hayden Kane joined the Real Good Crew to talk about how handing out cookies at PAX turned into a fundraising organization that's raised over $2million for charity!
Dr Andy Wu, founder of the ReSpawn Foundation, carried us in Fortnite while talking about the data analysis we’re working on with his organization, the struggles that fledgling nonprofits face, and what ReSpawn is all about! 

This week we are going to be interviewing Simon Leblanc, a software engineer with a background in applied mathematics. Simon uses LLMs for coding on a daily basis and lives to tell the tale. He likes technology for doing good and tries to see through the hype. Try to catch us live with Simon on the FIRST DAY of Full STEAM Ahead! 

Twitch chat is also the BEST place to ask questions and get immediate answers, plus all of the scientists really like talking to chat. They so rarely get feedback from the average person and it’s a really good feeling to talk to the people who are directly impacted by the work!
And from what I’ve heard the audiences they usually get are so small or niche that they sometimes miss the forest for the trees, and who knows you might ask the question that makes them see something they hadn’t considered before! 

There has never been a better time to be part of the Real Good Community, with cool interviews, and Full STEAM Ahead you should check us out at twitch.tv/realgoodai