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Sara O'Connnor
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Sara used to be a children's book editor, now she is a full stack developer. In her spare time, she teaches young people to create with software. Stories let children live a thousand lives.

So far, with Engineering Your Story, 174 children have created characters or objects with 3D software and had it printed so they could hold it in their hand. 52 children have created games with micro:bits. And 8 teachers and 4 parents have completed a Scratch workshop to support the young people in their care.
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I'm open to
joining company boards,
mentoring,
speaking at events,
and volunteering.
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Resume

Dec 2021 - Present

Software Engineer, FreeAgent

Apr 2017 - Nov 2021

Full stack developer, Consonance

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Over two sessions, taught 33 year 6 children the basics of Tinkercad, with the grounding in character design from the Engineering Your Story course. They learned some shape theory, experimented wit... Introduced 14 children to Tinkercad at The National Museum of Computing, Bletchley Park, with a speed run of the Engineering Your Story course. The young people learned the basics and then were all... Introduced 8 primary school teachers to the Raspberry Pi pathways tracks for Scratch. After introducing the Scratch community process (public sharing, commenting, teacher accounts, etc), the teache... Taught 28 Year 5 children how to use a micro:bit to predict the future. Or, more specifically, how to create a variable that stores a random number, and then create a confirmation or denial message...