Gavin Davies of sponsor Box UK, presented at Bristol IT MegaMeet 2013

1. Gavin Davies
Principal Software Developer, ___
Coding masterclasses
for schools

2. What are masterclasses?
● Started in industry
● Government links
● Expanded into
education

3. What's
the format?

4. Format (primary and secondary)
1. Intro talk
2. Logic game
3. Karel dog (codehs)
4. jScene
5. ...
6. Profit!

5. jScene

6. jScene

7. Format (college age)
1. Introduce real app
2. Sprint plan
3. Work on real app
4. Retrospective
Appcelerator Titanium

8. Why provide masterclasses?
● Education
● Steering committee
● Future staff
● To give something
back

9. ● IT literacy varies
hugely
● Some kids very
interested, some not
at all
● Picking a language is
HARD.
● Teaching is
EXHAUSTING
● Teachers deserve a
payrise!
What did we learn?

10. Want to get involved?
● After school coding clubs
○ such as codeclub.org.uk
● Give us suggestions!
○ boxuk.com/masterclasses-for-education
boxuk.com twitter.com/gavd_UK