Carrie Anne Philbin

Carrie Anne Philbin
Carrie Anne Philbin speaking at the Raspberry Pi birthday party at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge in 2015
Alma mater University of Essex
University of East London
Employer Raspberry Pi Foundation
Python Software Foundation
Known for Adventures in Raspberry Pi[1]
Website geekgurldiaries.co.uk

Carrie Anne Philbin is a teacher of computer science and an author. She is the Director of Education at the Raspberry Pi Foundation and is the Chair of the Computing At School (CAS) diversity and inclusion group, #CASInclude. She wrote the computing book Adventures in Raspberry Pi for teenagers. She runs the YouTube channel Geek Gurl Diaries and in 2017 ran the Crash Course on Computing.

Early life and education

Philbin studied History at the University of Essex. She taught herself to program and manage computer systems after she graduated.[2] She trained as a school computing teacher.[2]

Career

Philbin has been responsible for teaching children and teachers how to code in Python programming language and the Scratch programming language.[3] In 2014 she began to work at the Raspberry Pi Foundation.[4] She is a Google Certified Teacher and was a Skype Movement Maker.[5][6] Philbin leads strategy, continuing professional development (CPD) program and learning at the Raspberry Pi Foundation.[7] She was an advisor to the Department for Education for the UK's first computing curriculum.[8] In 2016 she was named as one of Computer Weeklys most influential women rising stars.[9] She chairs the Computing At School diversity and inclusion program and was a member of the board of directors at Python Software Foundation until 2017.[10] She was appointed a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation and named Computer Weekly's third most influential woman in IT in 2017.[11][12] She is a founder member of CasInclude an organisation supporting diversity in computing, for children in school. She won the 2018 FDM Group Everywoman Tech Digital Star Award.[13]

Philbin regular speaker at conferences like the British Educational Training and Technology Show (BETT), Raspberry Jamborees,[14] Young Rewired State (YRS), International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference[7] and the UK Python Conference (PyConUK).[15]

Geek Gurl Diaries

Geek Gurl Diaries was created by Philbin in 2012 to communicate to young people how exciting and creative science and engineering are.[16] It has 21,400 subscribers on YouTube.[17] It won the Talk Talk Digital Heroes award in 2013.[18]

Adventures in Raspberry Pi

Adventures in Raspberry Pi first published in 2013 with subsequent editions published in 2014, 2015 and 2016.[1][19][20] It contains an introduction to programming as well as 10 projects and instructional videos.

Crash Course

In 2017 Philbin partnered with Crash Course to create a series of videos explaining the origins of modern computing.[21] The series consisted of 40 videos, with between 100,000 and 1,100,000 viewers.[22][23]

References

  1. 1 2 Philbin, Carrie Anne (2013). Adventures in Raspberry Pi (first ed.). Chichester (United Kingdom): John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9781118751251.
  2. 1 2 "Carrie Anne Philbin - Next Tech Girls". Nexttechgirls.com. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  3. ↑ Head, Tim (2016-03-15). "Coding is for everyone!". Educationalappstore.com. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  4. ↑ "Why Raspberry Pi is still the white knight of education". Opensource.com. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  5. ↑ Border Free Travels (2014-09-30), Carrie Anne Philbin- Skype's Technology Brand Ambassador, retrieved 2018-07-29
  6. ↑ "Adventures in Raspberry Pi - Book Review". MyHydroPi.com. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  7. 1 2 "ISTE 2017". Conference.iste.org. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  8. ↑ "Coding for kids is cool with Raspberry Pi and this elementary guide". Wiley.com. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  9. ↑ "Most influential women in UK IT 2016: Rising Stars". ComputerWeekly.com. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  10. ↑ "Finalists announced for 2016 Women in Open Source Awards". Redhat.com. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  11. ↑ McDonald, Clare (2017). "Computer Weekly announces the Most Influential Women in UK IT 2017". ComputerWeekly.com. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  12. ↑ "PSF Fellow Membership". Python.org. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  13. ↑ "2018 FDM everywoman in Technology Awards". Everywoman. 2017-07-19. Retrieved 2018-07-30.
  14. ↑ "Raspberry Jamboree - Raspberry Pi". Raspberrypi.org. 27 February 2013. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  15. ↑ "Panel Discussion - Python in Education". 2017.pyconuk.org. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  16. ↑ "Welcome". Geek Gurl Diaries. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  17. ↑ "Geek Gurl Diaries". YouTube. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  18. ↑ "Geek Gurl Diaries". Geekgurldiaries.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  19. ↑ Philbin, Carrie Anne (2015). Adventures in Raspberry Pi (2nd ed.). Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9781119046028.
  20. ↑ Philbin, Carrie Anne (2017). Adventures in Raspberry Pi (3rd ed.). John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9781119269069.
  21. ↑ CrashCourse (2017-02-15), Crash Course Computer Science Preview, retrieved 2018-07-28
  22. ↑ CrashCourse (2017-02-22), Early Computing: Crash Course Computer Science #1, retrieved 2018-07-28
  23. ↑ "Crash Course Computer Science with Carrie Anne Philbin - Raspberry Pi". Raspberrypi.org. 18 May 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
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