Carrie Philbin
PHD Student at Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre
Greater Cambridge Area United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorCarrie Philbin is an education leader and PhD student with 12 years’ experience designing national computing curricula and resources, most recently leading the Teach Computing Curriculum at the Raspberry Pi Foundation. An award-winning teacher, author and YouTuber, she creates accessible computer science content—most notably Geek Gurl Diaries and a Crash Course Computer Science series—that combine hands-on projects with career stories to broaden participation. She has shaped national teacher support through free pedagogy publications like Quick Reads and Hello World, and co-founded CAS #include to increase diversity in computing. A Fellow of the Python Software Foundation and former Master's student at KCL, Carrie blends classroom practice, research and public engagement to make computing welcoming and practical for young people. Based in Greater Cambridge, she now directs learning initiatives at the Institute of Imagination while pursuing doctoral research into computing education.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (89)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
raspberrypilearning/pibrella-intro
Apr 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:33 commits in 4 months
raspberrypilearning/guides
Apr 2015 - Sep 2015
[NOT MAINTAINED] Helpful step by step guides on a variety of Raspberry Pi topics
Contributions:209 commits in 5 months
raspberry-piraspberryhelpfulraspberrypivariety
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