Computing and Technology specialist. Previously of @ISLQatar, @ISA_Augsburg and @PerthGrammar. Currently Principal Teacher of Computing @blairgowrieHS.
Perth, Scotland
Joined April 2018
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NEW: Walt Disney Imagineering shared a video of a recent playtest of the upgrades coming to Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin at Magic Kingdom. Imagineers tested the new targets, blasters, and gameplay ideas to see what works best.
The ride will temporarily close this August and reopen next year.
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S3 @BlairgowrieComp students are using @Raspberry_Pi to create a series of real world intelligent systems. Traffic lights, a shopping checkout and our very own home assistant (Bob) are all busy being worked on! #computing #intellegentsystems #activelearning @BlairgowrieHS
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@BlairgowrieHS Senior Boys played well for huge spells, but ultimately fell to a 5-2 defeat against a strong @PerthGrammar team. A brace from Grzegorz Lawniczek, the second of which had brought things to 3-2, had given us some hope, but two breakaway goals gave the hosts victory.
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@AberdeenFC @AberdeenFCSLO @GlasgowDons Please share to all of your travelling supporters who have been very generous in previous fixtures
#HungerDoesntWearClubColours
No home football match this weekend but we'll be collecting for @KinrossPerth Foodbank and @Saints_Trust before the @StJohnstone v @AberdeenFC match on Monday evening. Details 👇 A big crowd is expected so let's make this a bumper collection.
#HelpUsHelpOurCommunities
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Well done to @BlairgowrieHS pupils Eliot, Luke, Alesha, Jade, Summer, Callum, Calvin, Mars, Patrick, Orlaith, Daniel, Sofia, Tyler, Rhys and Dillan who wrote code that ran on the International Space Station. Thanks to @Astro_Pi @Raspberry_Pi & @Space_Station for the opportunity.
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Well done to @BlairgowrieHS student Mika, who was one of 2 runners up in the @gsc1 #MakeitHappen competition which was open to pupils across Scotland. The competition was to invent an app to solve a problem in #STEM. Mika designed an app to help deaf people play music.
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"Gareth Williams says computer science is “foundational to a modern economy”
One out of eight Scottish secondary school children do not have a computing science teacher
66 secondary schools have no computing science teacher"
#SaveComputingScience
The data around the alarming number of pupils with no access to a qualified computing teacher mentioned by @Mark_Logan1 at @SP_ECYP this morning can be found in our new report published today:
reformscotland.com/publicati…
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Mrs Mitchell and our S3 students had a fantastic morning at the @AbertayUni Digital Graduate Show. A wonderful chance for @BlairgowrieHS pupils to find out about the student experience and try out some of the project. Enjoyed talking to @ninjakiwigames and @teamterribledev.
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Thank you to @AbertayCyber, CyberFirst and @NCSC for inviting S3 students to take part in the cyber security workshop. They had a great time being CyberFirst Investigators for the day and learning about different careers in the field of #cybersecurity #dyw @BlairgowrieHS
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Great fun at @BlairgowrieComp code club today with our annual #Christmas party. Good food, good company, terrible cracker jokes, Christmas tunes and a bit of work on our @dressCodeHQ Christmas competition entries. #codeclub #computing @BlairgowrieHS
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Many thanks to #Astrophysics PhD student @cdonnanastro for talking to our S2/S3 @BlairgowrieHS students about his research and using #Python to analyse #data. Callum feels studying #computingscience at school made university work easier as he already knew how to program in Python
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#solvethecube #encrytion task as part of our #STEMmonth #cyber activities with @AbertayCyber. #Security #careers #STEMeducation @PKCDigSkills @BlairgowrieHS
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S2 @BlairgowrieComp taking part in a #lockbreaking workshop as part of our #STEMmonth #cyber activities with @AbertayCyber. #security #computerscience #Careers @BlairgowrieHS
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Plants galore! Our herb and chilli plants are thoroughly enjoying our ridiculous classroom temperatures. We are using a @Raspberry_Pi self-watering system from @pimoroni to monitor and water the plants. @BlairgowrieHS #SustainableFuture #automation
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10K FOLLOWER GIVEAWAY 🎉🎈🎁
To celebrate 10K followers on Twitter, we're giving away 3x Raspberry Pi Foundation tote bags containing Raspberry Pi branded goodies 😍 Winners will be randomly selected on Friday, 19 May 2023.
To enter: Follow us, like & RT this tweet.
Good luck!
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Well done to a delighted Noah, who after trying Python for the first time, won a @divoom Pixoo as part of the national @dressCodeHQ Christmas competition. We are so proud of you! @BlairgowrieHS #GrowthMindset #challenge #choosecomputingscience
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Well done to Hannah who entered the @dressCodeHQ Halloween coding competition and won a @divoom Pixoo. @BlairgowrieHS #girlswhocode #choosecomputing
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Scottish Teachers Advancing Computing Science coming soon!
A teacher-led initiative working with the Computing Science teaching community to help advance Computing Science in Scotland.
#stacs #TogetherWeCanAchieveMore
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Great collaboration with @BlairgowrieSci for a #Bioinformatics workshop from @UoDLifeSciences. Showcasing #datascience and #AI opportunities in #biology. Hopefully the beginning of more collaboration between Computing Science and Biology @BlairgowrieHS!
Going old school for DNA sequencing. Some very competitive students. With @UoDLifeSciences Think your way may be better @DaffDNA
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"We require between 50 and 60 new computing teachers per year, whereas our Universities produce in the order of 5,000 computing graduates per
year." pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles…
2006 - 803 Computing Science teachers.
2020 - 595 Computing Science teachers.
#SaveComputingScience