See below for a summary of events, to book your free place in the primary or secondary teacher sessions, and for details of the events aimed at students.
You can also download a full programme here and a copy of the brochure here.
Festival of Computing, Friday 5 March
9.30am Conference Opening and Keynote
Primary
10am Barefoot Computing
11am CAS Communities - Microbit & GoBubble
12pm NCCE Teach Computing and Computer Hub Programme
1pm Using STEM Ambassadors to support curriculum delivery
2pm EdTech Strategy for Primary Schools: beyond Covid
Secondary
10am An Overview of Isaac Computer Science and Discover Digital at PwC: Opportunities for you and your students with a leading technology employer
11am CAS Communities - Neon & The National Museum of Computing
12pm Using STEM Ambassadors to support curriculum delivery
1pm NCCE Teach Computing and Computer Hub Programme - the support available to secondary schools from the NCCE Computing Hub
2pm Edtech Demo Introduction and Taster Webinar - How to run CS on a Chromebook session
Students events
10am - 2 sessions to choose from:
- What is a career in Computing really about?
- Cybersecuritylecture + CyberFirst (NCSC)
Cybersecurity Lecture: Cryptography – Cracking the Code Part 1 (with Rory Hopcraft) / Cyberfirst (NCSC): Cyber Defence Against the Dark Arts
11am - 2 sessions to choose from:
- BigData/Recommendation Algorithms:
If Romeo and Juliet were friends on Facebook... (with Marco Palomino)
- CybersecurityEscape Room + Qufaro
Cryptography – Cracking the Code Part 2 (activity) (with Rory Hopcraft) / Developing the Cyber Talent Pool via The CyberEPQ (with Julia Humphries, Qufaro)
12pm Artificial Intelligence – building machines that think for themselves (with David Walker)
1pm RetroCoding: Use a BBC emulator to make a game of Snake (with Anne-Marie Langford from The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC))
2pm Coding Challenge (Vivian Hocking/Shirley Atkinson)