Scottish computing science teacher, software engineer, tech lover, sci-fi fan. Thoughts and opinions are my own.

Joined June 2015
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Mrs Mitchell retweeted
Senior @BlairgowrieComp Games Development students enjoyed some great advice about the games industry yesterday from Nigel Twumasi thanks to @speakers4schools. @BlairgowrieHS #gamesdev #computing #dyw
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Very proud of Mika, for winning the Tobbie the Robot prize in the @dressCodeHQ Halloween coding competition. Well done! #Coding #achievement #codeclub
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S3 @BlairgowrieComp students are using @Raspberry_Pi to create a series of real world intelligent systems. Traffic lights, a shopping checkout and our very own home assistant (Bob) are all busy being worked on! #computing #intellegentsystems #activelearning @BlairgowrieHS
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Mrs Mitchell retweeted
Thanks to Elizabeth Harley from @EYnews for her workshop with S4/S5 @BlairgowrieComp students on AI & Emotional Intelligence and to Morven Withers, DYW Board for her help. Our students really enjoyed it. Well done to Mars, Summer and Klaudia for your prize-winning presentations.
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Thanks very much to @AbertayUni graduate and award @baftagames winner Harry Petch for delivering an inspiring presentation to our pupils about pathways into the the games industry and insights into games design and development. @sourcepan #baftayg @BlairgowrieComp @DYWTayCities
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@BlairgowrieHS students were treated to a fantastic #gamesdev workshop by @ninjakiwigames, creators of the #bloons game series. Students explored the career opportunities in #gaming and got the opportunity to work on their own game ideas. #computing #dyw #STEM #careers
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Mrs Mitchell retweeted
Thanks very much to Paul and Rhiannon from @ninjakiwigames for delivering a fantastic presentation and workshop to our computing and games development pupils as part of our STEM week @DYWTayCities @BlairgowrieComp
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Thanks to @dundeeuni for our engraved Strathmore Trophy "Peoples Choice" award. Next year we'll be back and gunning for the big trophy! 🏆 @BlairgowrieHS #choosecomputingscience
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Well done to @BlairgowrieHS pupils Eliot, Luke, Alesha, Jade, Summer, Callum, Calvin, Mars, Patrick, Orlaith, Daniel, Sofia, Tyler, Rhys and Dillan who wrote code that ran on the International Space Station. Thanks to @Astro_Pi @Raspberry_Pi & @Space_Station for the opportunity.
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Well done to @BlairgowrieHS student Mika, who was one of 2 runners up in the @gsc1 #MakeitHappen competition which was open to pupils across Scotland. The competition was to invent an app to solve a problem in #STEM. Mika designed an app to help deaf people play music.
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Well done to Noah,Chiara, Gosia and Amber on winning the "Peoples Choice" category for their #Sustainability chatbot at the Strathmore Trophy Computing competition @dundeeuni. A fantastic effort by the team! 💻🤖🥳🎉🏆 @BlairgowrieHS @BlairgowrieComp #computing
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Mrs Mitchell retweeted
The @BlairgowrieHS team busy working on their Sustainability chatbot challenge as part of the @dundeeuni Strathmore Trophy computing competition. #sustainability #computing #AI
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Mrs Mitchell and our S3 students had a fantastic morning at the @AbertayUni Digital Graduate Show. A wonderful chance for @BlairgowrieHS pupils to find out about the student experience and try out some of the project. Enjoyed talking to @ninjakiwigames and @teamterribledev.
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Mrs Mitchell retweeted
Thank you to @AbertayCyber, CyberFirst and @NCSC for inviting S3 students to take part in the cyber security workshop. They had a great time being CyberFirst Investigators for the day and learning about different careers in the field of #cybersecurity #dyw @BlairgowrieHS
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Thanks to the Cyber in Schools Outreach programme for delivering fun activities to our S1 pupils today. They enjoyed the AI dectective, locking picking and Rubik's cube challenge as well as learning about hardware components.@DYWTayCities @BlairgowrieComp @cyberinschools
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Mrs Mitchell retweeted
Great fun at @BlairgowrieComp code club today with our annual #Christmas party. Good food, good company, terrible cracker jokes, Christmas tunes and a bit of work on our @dressCodeHQ Christmas competition entries. #codeclub #computing @BlairgowrieHS
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A creative door display from Mrs Mitchell greeting @BlairgowrieComp students this morning. Starting to get in the festive mood! @BlairgowrieHS #Christmas #computing #computingchristmas
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Thank you to Lucy for once again coming in to inspire our pupils with a talk on her experience with the fantastic opportunities @UofGGAs with the Graduate Apprenticeship program and for also attending the @BlairgowrieHS careers fair. Proud mum! #dyw #choosecomputing
Our @BlairgowrieComp cohorts learning about the #graduateapprenticeship opportunities from @UofGGAs . Thank you to apprentice Software Developer Lucy Mitchell for taking time to talk with our students. #careers #dyw #compsci
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Very proud of my daughter today for taking part in the Meet the Learner live event, flying the flag for choosing to study computing #choosecomputing youtube.com/live/u4i55sHfH_M…
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Mrs Mitchell retweeted
Calling all @blairgowriehs students. We're launching an opportunity for S1 and S2 students to go on a STEM International trip to Disney's #imaginationcampus at @WaltDisneyWorld. #STEM #Computing #DisneyWorld #Disneymagic
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