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Amanda Haughs is the Digital Innovation TOSA (teacher on special assignment) for Campbell Union School District, where she supports teachers with engaging all students in meaningful and relevant cross-curricular learning experiences. As a 2015 PBS LearningMedia Lead Digital Innovator, 2016 Silicon Valley CUE Outstanding Educator, Google Certified Educator, Raspberry Pi Certified Educator and Leading Edge Certified Professional Learning Leader, Haughs is passionate about the integration of technology and computer science education in elementary classrooms to support the development of creativity, critical thinking, and problem solving skills in students.

Carrie Anne Philbin is Director of Education at the Raspberry Pi Foundation and an award winning Computing teacher and Author of ‘Adventures in Raspberry Pi’ a physical computing book for teenagers wanting to get started with Raspberry Pi, Programming, and Digital Making. She is also the creator of a YouTube series for teenage girls called Geek Gurl Diaries. Episodes include interviews with women working in technology and hands on computer science based tutorials. Carrie Anne is Chair of the Computing at Schools diversity and inclusion initiative ‘CAS #Include’, a CAS Board member, and a director of the Python Software Foundation.

Nicholas Provenzano is a Technology Integration Specialist and Makerspace Director, education blogger, and nerdy Maker. He writes on his website, TheNerdyTeacher.com, Edutopia.org, the ISTE blog, as well as other prominent educational websites. He was awarded the Technology Teacher of the Year by MACUL and ISTE. Nicholas is an Google Certified Innovator, TEDEd Innovative Educator, and a Raspberry Pi Certified Educator. Above everything else, he is just a nerdy teacher trying to make a difference in the classroom. You can find his newest book, Your Starter Guide to Makerspaces, online. Nicholas can be found tweeting plenty of nerdy ideas on Twitter at @TheNerdyTeacher

James Robinson is an experienced cross phase Computer Science Teacher. James leads the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s teacher training programme “Picademy”, which gives teachers hands on experience of digital making. He also runs a separate programme which aims to inspire young people into STEAM subject by training and supporting educators to run near space missions. These low cost, high impact missions involve launching a Raspberry Pi (using a helium balloon) to heights exceeding 30km where students can photograph the curvature of the Earth and record sensor data.