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Inspirational Technology for kids (of all ages) Adrian Oldknow adrian@ccite.org Confessions of a volunteer ambassador James Burke’s Connection Only connect Beta Plus Xmas talk 2016 Edison, Sphero, Ollie, OhBot, Meccanoid Raspberry Pi, Crumble, BBC micro:bit for education MakeCode blocks Event-driven programming What I’m doing What got me into it Where it’s heading How can we all help?

My diaries: 15th January WCIT & National Educational Network (Grids for Learning) DPA digital/STEM/careers/21stC skills centres: Plymouth, Chichester, Portsmouth, Reading.. Cisco Smarter Rural & Coastal Towns, East Anglia and outwards 23rd January UoC: STEM Park/Centre; bid for SME apprentice degrees turned down 24th January BETT 2014: Ann Milton, Anthony Salcito, Gareth Stockdale Micro:bit Education Foundation: ARM, BBC, IET, Microsoft, Nominet – Ambassador DDCMS/DfE Digital Skills & EdTech policy teams Micro:bit projects to stimulate STEM education, Primary & Secondary ROM, PROM and EPROM – Robotics On Micro:bits 2018 Year of Engineering UK Project of 1000 schools: £1m £20m for every UK Primary School Support from NETA, Rotary UK & Ireland, Tech Industry Global project: UNESCO, Rotary International, Gates?

Microsoft Hacking STEM Project Cordoba for Excel: Arduino WAM: Windows Applications with Micro:bits Excel, Scratch, Small Basic, GeoGebra, Logger Pro SDA and KIKS: Tony Houghton Education World Forum: Damian Hinds, Engineering 4.0

“preparing students for success in the 4th industrial revolution

can hardly be more apt or more timely..” 26th Jan Shaping Portsmouth Airbus Defence & Space Donna Jones: `Inspiring the next generation’ 2014: Ian Potter, Hants 14-19 Careers STEM Centre bid at HMS Daedalus CEMAST: Fareham College Engineering, Manufacture, Advanced Skills Training Derek Peaple, BIS Space A-level Newbury iSTEM+ cluster Gosport, Gomer gSTEM, Caroline Dinenage MP IET.TV and Sandwich Big Bang, March 2017 STEM Learning iSTEM+ group Skilful School Cuboctahedron: TinkerCAD GFM Enthuse Partnership Georgina Mulhall

Roy Haworth RAE lecture at CEMAST `The Next Space Race’ C&EC Enterprise Adviser to GFM MEF sponsorship Caroline’s press release Jan 2017: “It is vital that we equip our young people with STEM skills. This boosts aspiration and broadens horizons for pupils leaving school, as well as responding to the tech skills gap in our economy. I am proud to have schools innovating on the STEM agenda in my

• constituency. This support from the Micro:bit Education

Foundation will help Gosport schools continue to inspire their pupils through an exciting STEM curriculum.” GFM Lego Innovation Studio; rocket cars and micro:bits March 2017: 5 Gomer teams, regional final Bloodhound `Race For The Line’ RAF Odiham 2 teams National Final Santa Pod Went to Festival of Speed instead! 2 Park House Y10 teams in National Finals

Adam & Ben: Student Digital Ambassadors

CAS Conference Reading June 2017 Ray & Adrian: Winchester STEM Ambassadors Army rocketeers and Aulden Dunipace Bloodhound SSC Education Ambassador 3rd December Avonmouth briefing Richard Nobel and John Abel, Oracle Sensed data (RPi), 3D video, GPS, environment

28th Nov: TV/Reading iSTEM+ Hub launch Pete Marshman, Leighton Park School Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, Pfizer Enabling Enterprise, Activate Learning, Learning Partnership RAEng Connecting STEM Teachers, Annie Beglin RAEng free resource packs Flying Bull, KS2 Drones Scott Atkinson, Education Programmes Manager Lunch at the IET 14th December Thinking Like An Engineer, Rhys Morgan, Bill Lucas RAEng project, Winchester, Manchester EHoMS: AO as techie Bohunt, Petersfield, Priory, Reading UTC Learning to be an Engineer launch March 30th The report finds that by creating a culture in which EHoMS flourish, learners across all subjects improved literacy, numeracy and communication skills, deemed vital for an engineering career. By equipping teachers with ways to better engage children as engineers, the methods outline in `Learning to be an Engineer’ could help inspire more students into the profession and address the well-documents shortage of professional engineers faced by the UK.

5th May RAEng Management Seminar: Georgina meets Scott 29th January: Annie’s Wokingham workshop at Evendons Primary Ofsted Outstanding, Free school Brand new STEM block Head, Patrick Pritchett, ex REME Second meeting 25 primary/secondary AO to run micro:bit workshop Theme: event-based computing: ROM MakeCode block templates

Tomorrow: Beta Plus TSG (then BCS to meet President elect, Director of Education) Drove Scott back to Petersfield station – discussed CPD, video, collaboration…… Design & Technology Association Ambassador The truth, yes, but not the whole truth! 3rd, no careers advice, HMV, Meccano, Dinky, Triang, E F Russ. CADC 1981, Malcolm Sabin, FEGS, BBC micro, Acornsoft SATRO course 1978/9 Educational Implications of microelectronics BBC, BT, GEC, Imperial, NPL, Schools Council, SPRU Keith Joseph, Margaret Thatcher MEP Advisory Board

Ken Baker, RM, Acorn, Sinclair, BBC Computer Programme DTI Computers in Schools 1982 NCET Input Pack Glass, Tony Hill Heinemann, Tony Clements, Fiveways Hot wire, expanded polystyrene, arsenic! No commercial success Lord Young, MSC, 1982 TVEI, BBC Bitesize, OWN IT, 2005 BBC Jam, 2007 No more Jam FutureLab, Facer: Beyond Current Horizons 2009 Becta Fit For The Future Future Skills, £150k, 3 schools, 1 year 2010 Michael Gove, DfE No more Becta No more Building Schools for the Future Howard Baker 2010 BBC Make IT Digital 2015

Nicknamed the ‘Micro Bit’ as a working title, the BBC has

partnered with over 25 organisations to create a small programmable hardware device for every year 7 child (age 11-12) in the UK. Building on the legacy of the BBC Micro, the Micro Bit aims to help transform a new generation from passive consumers of technology to creators and innovators in the digital world.

The Micro Bit helps younger children to start learning basic coding and programming, acting as a springboard for further learning and more advanced products like Arduino, Galileo, Kano and Raspberry Pi. It is still in development and will become available from autumn 2015, with 1 million devices given away freely, including to each child in year 7 across the

• UK. More information is available here.”

Park House, pilot site. No documentation. Restricted `Touch Developer’ 25 LEDs and 2 Buttons – hardly earth shattering! Adrian becomes micro:bit sceptic. July 2016 – 1m micro:bits delivered to secondary schools – many in cupboards Micro:bits go on sale £15, PXT editor, Input, I/O, Radio… AO converted! STEM Learning Micro:bit group

IET Faraday Micro:bit resources Video Case Studies: David Whale, Essex SLO Abbie Hutton, Airbus Space & Defence ExoMars Here is my agenda - we’ve met ROM already

It is widely recognised that schools have great difficulty recruiting and retaining staff with up-to-date skills in the key technological subjects of Science (especially Physics), DT, Computing and Maths. So we are keen to develop and support a community of `STEM Teachers Using Micro:bits’ STUM. I very much hope that the IET and IMechE can collaborate (maybe with STEM Ambassadors and RAEng Teacher Coordinators) to help STEM teachers gain confidence and improve their own technological skills to the benefit of future generations. Yesterday I heard from Phil Moffitt and Hellen Ward, who runs the STEM Ambassador Programme for Kent, Sussex, Surrey and Essex, that we will soon have new iSTEM+ Hubs in Dover and Medway. We already have iSTEM+ Hubs running in Banbury, Gosport, Newbury and Reading, supported by Emily Thorpe-Smith and the STEM Ambassador Programme for Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Isle of Wight, Oxfordshire, Portsmouth and Southampton. New iSTEM+ Hubs are being formed in Basingstoke, Chichester, East Hampshire, Fareham, Farnborough, Guildford and Portsmouth. While put the finishing touches to the talk this morning, I had an e-mail to tell me that Microsoft in Reading has agreed to host our first iSTEM+ Conference on 12th June.  A year ago, when I first discussed tonight’s talk with Hamish, David and John I had no idea just what lay ahead in the intervening year. I had just planned to show a few of the toys which I’d brought along to the Beta Plus’ Christmas talk in 2016. But I am absolutely surprised, amazed and delighted just how things have moved on in the intervening 12 months. Whatever else happens, it is clear that we have the inspirational technology to revolutionise the educational experience of our young people. We just need to figure out how to help them get the greatest possible benefit from it. Once that’s sorted, maybe Tony and I will have a bit more time to spend with our wives, and our Jags?