| Name | Bio | Session |
| Pravin Vaz | Outreach Coordinator, Engineering and Computer Science, ex clasroom teacher in Science, Music and Technology. Microbit Champion 2021, Love tinkering with stuff. | |
| Dan Milward | Dan is the founder and CEO of Gamelab, and his goal in life is to make game creation accessible to everyone, including learners and teachers with no prior knowledge of coding and game design. He has run game creation and design workshops for kids and adults and recently partnered with Public Libraries of New Zealand to bring game coding workshops to communities in seven New Zealand regions. | A fun workshop that helps breaks down the barriers that stand between teachers and teaching students how to code. This workshop shows that programming can be fun and taught by people without previous experience. The coding concepts Dan will teach come from the Computational Thinking (CT) learning area in the NZ Digital Technologies curriculum. By the end of the workshop teachers will feel more confident in their ability to teach code in their classroom as part of their Digital Technologies curriculum. |
| Troy Smith | Troy Smith is a lifelong learner and educator in the field of electronics and digital technology. He was interested in electronics from a young age, winning the New Zealand youth skills industrial electronics competition in 1999. Troy went on to gain an NZCE in electronics and then a B.Sc in Electronics. After ten years in the field, Troy completed a career changers scholarship, and he now has ten years of teaching experience, five years as HOD and four years as a MOE PLD Provider. Troy is the owner of Learning Developments, the official micro:bit reseller in New Zealand. With his years of experience, he showcases the learning power in this device. |