Ambassadors

Sirani McNeill is currently a student at RMIT University studying Diploma of Information Technology, an organiser/champion of CoderDojo Hawthorn on educating children about STEM education and technology. Her specialised interests include web development, programming, cyber security and agile project management. Previously, she worked at Accenture doing data science in Splunk development with DevOps.

Sirani McNeill currently lives in Melbourne, Australia with her family and pet cat Daisy.

In 2015 CoderDojo Bulgaria has strarted their first free coding club in Sofia and currently they have more than 35 dojo clubs all over Bulgaria. In KGJ 2018 edition nine teams from CoderDojo Bulgaria have participated for the first time, two of them made it to the final and team PUZL even won Scratch 7-12 category. As CoderDojo Bulgaria team saw the great impact KGJ has on the kids participated, they decided to involved as much as possible kids from all over Bulgaria to be part of the camping 2019 edition of Kids Game Jam.

In my day job, I’m investigating how digital games can be used in classroom settings to assist conventional teaching and teach social issues to children. Besides this, I’m an active advocate for technology and CS in primary schools, participating in the ‘Girls Go Coding’ initiative to attract girls and female adults to coding and serving as an Ambassador of EU Code Week. I’m also cooperating with Samsung in the framework of their ‘smart classrooms’ project, where we use interactive boards and tablets across a variety of disciplines and coding activities in secondary schools in Greece, and British Council in their outreach programmes to teach ICT and CS skills to migrant children in campuses around Athens. I’m also participating in the ‘House of Makers’ initiative, which included a number of game development bootcamps for students, using Construct and Unity.

Pete supports the CoderDojo community in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. He also plans events like Coolest Projects and EUDojo. He’s an avid gamer! In his past life he played drums, and saw the world as a touring musician.

Instructional designer at Zendesk. Graphic/multimedia/UX-UI designer, trainer. I’m passionate about photography and sharing knowledge is what I wish people will always do. I’m co-hosting one of the coder dojo in Dublin.

Computer, Electronics and Telecommunications Engineer, Entrepreneur, Trainer and Mentor of StartUp. Author of Programmaµ and StartUp College, Founder and “Irresponsible” Manager of SatiroMancino, Founder of CoderDojo Cosenza.

Champion of CoderDojo Torino2, teacher and educator at work. Founder of MerendeDigitali and mother of
two boys who are technology enthusiast and very curious, they were the push to undertake the fantastic
experience of CoderDojo and KidsGameJam. I love the idea of kids learning to create their video games and
not just be passive users of technology. They will be the coders of tomorrow.

Computer consultant. Author of textbooks on coding and robotics. Trainer. Founder of CoderDojo Fossò-Venezia. President of the Digiveneto Social Promotion Association.

Founder and Champion of CoderDojo Sigillo.
Gradueted in Communication Science, teacher in Primary School. President of Crea Digitale, social promotion association. Author of teacher’s guidebook on coding and creative thinking.

Co-Founder and Champion of CoderDojo Modena.
Humanistic / Philosophical Education.
WEB Explorer.
Thoughts: “I dream a world where children teach and professors learn 🙂 The new generations have a lot to transmit.”

Graduated in computer science, founder of coderdojo Tolentino.Web writer, social media manager and digital marketing.

graduated in Chemical Engineering, assistant researcher at Chemical Engineering Departement at City College of City University of New York and at Chemical Engineering at University of Salerno before, industrial Consultant after, now he’s professor of technology in a Middle School in Nocera Inferiore, Salerno, Italy

Sono insegnante di matematica della Scuola Primaria, animatrice digitale del mio Istituto e docente dell’Ecosistema S.T.E.M. Verona. Fin dalle prime esperienze d’insegnamento mi sono avvicinata all’utilizzo delle tecnologie come supporto all’attività didattica.
Attualmente mi occupo dell’innovazione didattica attraverso l’uso delle tecnologie digitali. Credo che introdurre i bambini alle basi della programmazione aiuti a sviluppare la loro capacità di risolvere i problemi in modo creativo e le loro competenze logiche.

Mi chiamo Angela Gatti e sono una docente , della scuola primaria del Secondo Istituto Comprensivo di Francavilla Fontana in provincia di Brindisi . . In seguito ad un mix di esperienze maturate e consolidate anche dopo tanti anni di insegnamento ,ho pensato ad un approccio didattico in continuo e creativo cambiamento, poiché ho cercato , e sperimentato metodologie alternative , superando l’approccio tradizionale ,facendo ricorso alle tecnologie a supporto della didattica ,poiché si sa che le “nuove” tecnologie sono parte integrante della quotidianità dei nostri alunni, e che questi arrivando a scuola non possono fare un salto nel passato, ma devono trovare una continuità con la realtà esterna .Così cerco di educare i bambini ad affrontare questa realtà, quella dei loro tempi, con strumenti e competenze adeguate .poichè la società si è evoluta e il mondo ci pone di fronte a sfide diverse.

Ho trasformato la mia classe in un laboratorio di scrittura , di lettura, di arte, di manualità, per far acquisire le competenze ,imparando facendo.. La classe è diventata un laboratorio digitale con una duplice valenza : sia nel senso che si usano le tecnologie digitali, sia che si usano le dita della mano ,per fare, creare, un laboratorio attivo, dunque, un piccolo Atelier creativo, cioè uno spazio e un tempo intenzionalmente e opportunamente potenziato ,per sperimentare in maniera efficace le varie attività didattiche.
Da qualche tempo ho introdotto ,in maniera trasversale a tutte le discipline, il coding con Scratch e la robotica educativa , per l’avvio al pensiero computazionale e ci stiamo approcciando alla stampa 3D, affinchè anche l’immaginazione si trasformi in realtà, una realtà non più ferma alla carta e la matita, ma aumentata dalle potenzialità che la tecnologia ci offre.

Founder of CoderDojo Bracciano, Mentor in the CoderDojo galaxy since 2013, Software Architect and System Engineer in the Aerospace Sector

I have been DojoCon Japan’s Executive Committee Chief for both last years and this years event.
A CoderDojo evangelist, I champion both Nishinomiya and Umeda CoderDojo clubs.
Additionally I am a Co-Founder of the regional body CoderDojo Japan.

Mr. Bayubasire Joel is a Ph.D. Candidate in Economy (Project Management) at “Ecole Doctorale E.J. Randolph” of the Madison International Institute and Business School (http://madisoninternationalbusinessschool.education)

Mr. Joel is a well-experienced leading social entrepreneur and has a long years’ experience in education career as senior lecturer of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Planning, and Project Management related courses for over 10 years.

Champion and Mentor for CoderDojo Austin, Computer Science Teacher, and mother to two future engineers. It has been my purpose to spread the importance of computer science in early education. When I am not mentoring, I am in the garden or planning my next adventure.