Ben Llewellyn Smith

Preston, England

Ben Llewellyn Smith

Preston, England

Below I've listed several of my interests & involvements over the past 12 months,Please contact me to discuss...

  • TeachMeet International Webinar,
  • ULT eLearning Webinar,
  • Feature writer in Switched On magazine (CAS) - "Blender 3D as tool for teaching KS3 python" & "Minecraft For Free to teach Logic Gates"
  • Featured in Linux magazine Article - re:Robotics Workshop at Raspberry Jamboree 2013
  • MagPi magazine:
  • YRS 2012 finalists - weeklong hackathon using Scratch, Python & Blender,
  • CAS forum contributer - Blender SoW & CS SoW2013
  • Geek Roadtrip to Manchester HackSpace - 3D Printer research,
  • Hack to the Future 2 & 3 - Using Hackasaurus & Notepad++ to create digital resources to encourage eSafety.
  • PyCon 2012 - PyGame in Education (Dan Pope)
  • Teach Meet Cambridge - Raspberry Pi lesson plans
  • Raspberry Jams - Cambridge, Bristol, Manchester, Preston, Warrington & Accrington
  • BarCamp (Liverpool & Blackpool) - Fignition & ShrimpingIt respectively,
  • Raspberry Jamberee 2013 (Education Innovation) - Robotics Workshop & on the live streamed Education Panel,
  • Edge Hill - Creating 3D games in Blender using Python,
  • Edge Hill - Scratch to Python & Robotics in Education,
  • Manchester University - Computational Thinking thorugh Kineasthetic activities (Algorithmic Dancing)
  • Preston Raspberry Jam - Pi’s in education,
  • Toyota challenge - 2ndary schools Robotics Tournment,
  • BILETA Conference 2013: Our digital futures: technologies without boundaries (10-12 April 2013 @ Liverpool Law School) - Legal restrictions on Pornography, 3D printing, Twitter FoS.
  • #ShrimpingIt - Physical Computing using the Arduino Chipset,
  • Maker Faire 2013 - Shrimping it, Girls in Computing Photomontage.
  • Kinnect2Scratch - Piloted with yr7 then used with yr3 pupils.
  • BBC Bytesize Team for CS 2013,
  • EDIT 2013 - Thursday June 7th 2012 EduGeek (3D printers),
  • Invited to teach for OurLearning - Blender & MinecraftEdu,
  • York STEM - hackasaurus TBC
  • TechWhizz at Accrington Academy - Blender,
  • CAS conference in Birmingham on the
  • Work
    • AKS Lytham
  • Education
    • BSc (Hons) Computer Science UMIST