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...

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.

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 😀🎮🕹️🚗👾

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 😋🫖

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:

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!

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

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

Happy birthday Ada!

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.

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

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 !

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!