Andy Briggs

Brilliant idea! 👏

I’m going to say Mad Inventor. I don’t have enough hands to be the Game Show Host 😂

A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,

"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"

Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

Images from the Big science communication conference 2025, showing attendees at various talks and activities.

Booked my ticket for @big-stem-network.bsky.social and will also be speaking this year! I’ll be joining Pete from Kings College and a few others talking about using the @microbit.org for teaching coding. I will also be bringing along the escape room kit for folk to have a go!

Late night thought:

ChatGPT is rather like the British Museum: Really fun to visit until you start thinking too hard about how it got everything.

Three children taking part in a microbit based escape room activity, with cardboard robots and wooden computer consoles on a table in front of them.

Some of the kids had a go at the @microbit.org escape room today at the Bishops Cleeve CoderDojo. It was nice to get it out of the box again, it’s been too long! @codeclub.bsky.social

I'm going to post out a copy of these @microbit.org game worksheets from to 5 people that repost this or to new followers! I will use a micro:bit to choose at random 😀🎮🕹️🚗👾

Can’t wait! 😁

Visiting @raspberrypiorg.bsky.social HQ was a great experience, but did leave me wanting one of their fancy mugs! Finally caved last week and ordered one of my own 😋🫖

Next time we might add a timer, or some "bad" dots which you need to avoid.

Took my new @pimoroni.com Presto along to CoderDojo today, and helped a couple of the kids make a cool little game.

Trying out @flashes.blue with a new account:

Curious Coders Hi, welcome to our channel! We will be sharing coding tutorials and fun makes with electronics.

Check out the channel here: www.youtube.com/@Curious-Cod...

Our YouTube channel now has 16 subscribers!

It’s not the biggest number I’ll admit, but I’m still proud of this small milestone and very grateful for the support.

Let’s see how quickly we can get to 32!

YouTube video by Curious Coders Coding a virtual pet with OctoStudio

Ellie and I have made another #OctoStudio tutorial! This time we’ve made a virtual pet, which eats a real bone, has a bath and goes disco dancing! 🕺

youtu.be/1wLvDtTDNdo
@octostudioapp.bsky.social
#kidscoding #LearnToCode #STEMEd

Curious Coders 2024 Retrospective A look back over a year of coding & technology for kids.

Just published my last newsletter of 2024, a review of the year looking back on:
- building the micro:bit escape room
- teaching Year 9's about cyber security via the medium of dancing like chickens!
- and posting our first tutorial on YouTube

Please, if you’re making one!

Happy birthday Ada!

Sarah writing some words on some flipchart paper.

Are you looking for public engagement or science communication training? I have availability in 2025!

My training offer: www.sarahcosgriff.com/pe-training

If you are interested in a bespoke training session, please get in touch.

Pls give this a repost for more visibility! #scicomm

You may have seen a lot of "middle aged" women posting about bad behaviour in their early careers. I have many stories to add. But I think you've already got the idea.

It's still happening now.

If you see it, call it.

Because it stays with us all our fucking lives.

Picture of a Pico w 1 sitting on a ThinkPad with the onboard LED on. The ThinkPad is open to a web page running from the Pico that says Your Pico W led is On ☀️ This website was made with petite-vue and DaisyUI. All of this running on a Raspberry Pi Pico W Then a button saying turn the light off

A 🧵 on running a HTTP server on the Raspberry Pi Pico W with Rust 🦀

Also my entry for the green #NerdyLooks challenge (in the first photo!)

A photo of me standing beside the Raspberry Pi Foundations logo, on the outside of their office building.

The code club community gathered at the start of the conference.

A photo of me holding one of the laser cut wooden boxes, which make up my escape room.

A photo of me and other conference attendees holding up code club signs.

Back from a wonderful weekend at #ClubsCon24 in Cambridge, meeting Code Club educators from around the world.

Listened to inspiring talks and got the chance to show off my escape room. But the best bit was meeting so many awesome people!

Thank you @raspberrypiorg.bsky.social !

Nice to meet you and build lego together! :)

Such a beautiful sky!

Yes! Looking forward to it, last time was fantastic :)

That’s awesome, congratulations!!

Now, should I get the volunteers helping me with this to dress up as giant chickens...

A person dressed in a chicken chef costume, standing outside a chicken shop.

Working on my activity for EmPower today - kids will be learning about the human side of cyber by attempting to steal the Secret Recipe from the Curious Chicken Shop 🐔

They'll have a go at social engineering and open source research. It will hopefully be good fun as well as educational!

This afternoon I'm going to the lauch event for Fame Lab Academy, Cheltenham Fetivals schools science comms competition. I’m volunteering as a mentor for the first time. Really looking forward to meeting my school and next year getting a chance to hear what the Year 9’s are exctied about in science!