Transcript The Arduino and STEMNet Ambassadors Scheme - Rhys Wilson

Arduino practical programming
and electronics
By Rhys Wilson
Who am I?
A biotechnologist
A STEM co-ordinator
… Certainly not a programmer.
Then why am I here?
Free coffee
And also to talk about Arduino and how I use it
as a hobby and how I will teach others through
it.
What is Arduino?
An open source chipset
Programmed with a c++ language
Referred to as a “prototyping” board
Cheap!
Compatible with the
Raspberry pi
What can you do with it?
What am I doing with it?
Teaching 2 sixth form students about:
chromatography
Electronics
Programming
product design
By building a gas
chromatograph
But…
Let STEMnet help
We can’t buy you one
But we can get STEM Ambassadors from:
Software design
Electronic engineering
Process plants
Let us show your students how ideas go from
Arduino prototypes to multimillion pound
products and processes.
How can we do that?
We have over 600 Ambassadors from industry
We have over 10 years of experience
All of our Ambassadors are DBS checked
We’re free (that’s right, no charge)
How does it work?
Brace yourself for a very complicated flow chart
You set up an
event or session
We put the
Ambassadors in
contact with you
Ambassadors let
us know if they
can attend
You tell us about
it
We find suitable
Ambassadors
That’s all folks