2025-09-21 –, Space 3
Interested in running outreach workshops, educational activities or beginner challenges? In this session we will:
- discuss what makes a good workshop for your audience
- share ideas on theming activities
- have a go at a workshop designed for 9-14 year-olds, using a BBC micro:bit to 'code a satellite'
I work for an education charity, and run workshops with a wide range of young people - aged 5-18, in schools and community groups, with parents/guardians or unaccompanied - on all sorts of different themes.
My favourite tool to use is a BBC micro:bit and, in this workshop, I will share how I have used very similar code to run very different workshops.
You can discuss ideas with other session attendees on ways to theme workshops that are relevant to your own work, and I will run through an example workshop 'Code a Satellite'.
The example workshop uses many different micro:bit features that could be themed in different ways - we will experiment with using the LED display, light sensor, accelerometer and radio - and I will also describe how I adapted it for different age groups.
Bring a laptop, I will provide micro:bits to use during the session.
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I run coding/computing/technology/making workshops at Science Oxford, an education charity, working with young people, family groups, community groups and teachers.
I'm not a Python expert, but I love teaching it as it's an extremely accessible programming language!
Outside of work, my main obsessions are tea, fighting robots, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.