Ian Thompson
3rd Grade Teacher at Anderson School District Five
Clemson, South Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Thompson is a Clemson University–trained elementary educator and technology entrepreneur who blends classroom practice with hands-on software development. As a 3rd grade teacher at Anderson School District Five, he brings research-backed instructional design from his time in Clemson’s IDEA Lab to create engaging, tech-informed learning experiences. Parallel to teaching, he founded Nice Lion Technologies, building web and iOS apps using Svelte, React, and Google Cloud while managing contracts and contributing to open source. His background includes developing Scratch extensions for educational robots and assisting AI education research, signaling a strong focus on computational learning for young students. With a decade of experience across classroom, substitute, and after-school roles, he combines practical classroom management with product-minded technical skills. Colleagues value him for turning educational research into usable classroom tools and for quietly shipping pragmatic software that supports learning.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Elementary Education, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Elementary Education at Clemson University
Github Skills (47)
sdk8
parse7
parser7
csv6
parseui6
dialog6
cocoapods5
swift5
raspberry5
csv-parser5
raspbian5
bolts-framework5
objective-c5
ios4
parse-platform4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nicelion/ianthompson
Nov 2022 - Jun 2024
My personal webpage and portfolio
Contributions:52 PRs, 104 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 6 months
nicelion/PCBTree
Nov 2017 - Aug 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 15 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 9 months
christmas-treecircuit-boardcircuitchristmasnerd
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