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FEMI
& GRACE
OWOLADE-COOMBES
acer Femi and his ertified ducator mum
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Profile info
Category: Hacker and educator
Day job: Femi is still in school
while race wors in
further education
Website: hackerfemo.com
twitter.com/gowolade
Below right A visit
to the BBC was on
the cards, thanks
to the Make it
taaman
Below Femi continues
to run workshops for
others, improving
on his worksheets
for events such as
MozFest, PyCon, and
Raspberry Jams
G
race Owolade-Coombes
heard about coding
through her work in
further education and found
herself intrigued. Mother to a
‘young, inquisitive son’, she felt
the urge to investigate further.
However, it wasn’t until a
year later, while attending the
National STEM Centre in York,
tht he finy diovered more
about coding and what the term
actually meant.
She was sent in the direction of
the Raspberry Pi Foundation and
attended a few events with her
son, Femi, where they discovered
the warmth of the community and
the fun to be had with projects
such as Minecraft hacks and
robot builds. From there, Grace
found herself on the Picademy
programme and, after the twoday
course, she felt excited and
eager to get more involved in the
community. “I particularly loved
the physical coding workshop
which I took back and delivered to
my son, who also loved it.”
With no prior background
in computing, Grace, along
with Femi, was able to take her
Picademy experience and run a
workshop at Covent Garden’s
rgon the firt o mny
workshops the pair would lead.
At age nine, on 11 September
2015, Femi wrote on his website:
88 February 2017
raspberrypi.org/magpi