Talks and media work

In April 2015, I spoke at TEDx Derby about why it is so important for children to learn to code. The recording of the talk is available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPTWg_fOJEI

Photo credit: Glyn Smith

In July 2015, I was invited by BBC to present on their Make it Digital stand in Nottingham

October 2015 to December 2015 – Various interviews on BBC Radio Nottingham and BBC Radio Leicester to promote Code Club in the East Midlands

January 2016 – Keynote talk “Physical Computing in Primary Schools” (with Sway Grantham) at BETT

March 2016 – Keynote speaker at the Discovery Schools Trust ICT Conference in Leicester

June 2016 – Workshop at Roehampton Festival of Education presenting some of my MSc research on computational thinking

June 2016 – Keynote talk “Autism, Girls and Coding” at the CAS Include Diversity in Education Conference at the University of Manchester

January 2017 – Stand presenter with the Raspberry Pi Foundation at BETT

May 2017 – Workshop presenter at Manchester Raspberry Jamboree

July 2018 – Talk called “Tales from a passionately imperfect Code Club volunteer” at Raspberry Fields

Other work of note

In September 2015, I was observed by Nicky Morgan, the then Secretary of State for Education, teaching a model Computing lesson. I worked with a group of Year 5 and 6 pupils at a school in Loughborough to code a times table game in Scratch.