Take it up there.
I got it.
I never thought for a second it would be anything but a teacher. I always thought I would be in the classroom every day because there is no better feeling than being a teacher and working with pupils every day.
Can you scooch over just a little bit so you're right in the middle of the seat? Go the other way.
Teaching them things that are new, learning new things yourself, and then Make It Happen came along. And there's no better feeling than Make It Happen.
Y'all ready?
Yeah.
Make It Happen gives pupils the opportunity to go from those who like to use technology to those that are starting to create technology. It's such a fantastic charity that, at its core, just wants every child to have the opportunity to explore digital learning.
So we have our app design competition, where pupils get to design an app. We pick a winner, and we build it, and then we publish that so that anyone anywhere in the world can download and use their apps. We've had every kind of app you could possibly think of. We have apps that are going to help other people.
So my app was a clock. This is my little sister, and she's been learning the time recently.
And then we have a lot of people that focus on learning.
I've designed an app where it teaches you French.
If you want to get better and better at your times tables, then you can just use this app to help you.
We then have the really fun apps.
It's an app called Footy Jump. Pimple squeeze.
It looks like it's called Find My Rainbow. Yeah? Do you like rainbows?
We have traveled all over, and that's been made possible by JP Morgan and its Hyper Social Good team sponsorship, which has allowed us to create lots of different opportunities for schools, whether it's the app competition which we started with or Make It Happen High Project, or workshops, or thinking about all the bespoke projects that we've created for schools to suit their needs as well.
But we want something to do with rainbows. I'll get thinking too.
The children that we work with are going to be our future. They are the people that are going to be the technologists of the world, the teachers of the world. They're going to be doing jobs that don't even exist yet, and they are the people that are going to be in charge of the world that we live in and are going to make it a better place for us all.
I think there's a really bright future with computing, and it's good to show children that they can go on to do that when they're older.
It played a really big part in me pursuing it on to higher levels, to university.
Just being given these opportunities at such a young age, it does open up different possibilities and different pathways. Like, I want to become a programmer for NASA. So being given that opportunity fueled my ambition, I guess.
The children that we work with every day, they are so inspiring. Everything that they come up with, the way that they look at things, gives us a new perspective. And that's what is going to change the world-- this new perspective and knowing that there's no boundary on what you can do, anything is possible.
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