HiFive Inventor

05/27/2022

Set up your work station to your comfort. What is your favorite itme on your desk?

05/16/2022

Genevieve Leveille, originally from Haiti, is the principal founder and CEO of AgriLedger. She has more than 25 years’ experience dealing with large corporations and banks in financial supply chain optimization. Her background is in corporate and institutional banking. With a reputation for the delivery of disruptive technologies in large-scale projects, Genevieve is recognized as an authority in the realm of digital identity and financial transformation. Exploring the powers of distributed ledger technologies (DLT) for over three years, her work in the financial inclusion for Africa with her previous employer, the global bank consortium IdenTrust, is well known.

A finalist in the Women in IT Awards 2016 (Security Champion), her recognition on the Women in 2016/17 Fintech Power List published by Innovate Finance testifies to her resilience and leadership. She serves as the vice-chair for the techUK Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) Working Group, an organization that provides strategic direction for all UK activities related to blockchain and DLT and is an inaugural member of the Advisory Group for the Estonian Government’s eResidency initiative for the digital identity. Genevieve has qualifications in Bachelor of Science in Biology, is a Certified Treasury Professional and has a Six Sigma Black Belt in process improvement.

05/04/2022

Anna Holland-Smith is a former Lawyer turned Software Engineer, now working as an Internal Developer Advocate at Automattic, a distributed company with 1,172 Automatticians in 76 different countries speaking 93 different languages. Alongside her work, Anna has a strong interest in improving accessibility to coding education and promoting a more diverse, inclusive and equitable tech workforce. Anna has volunteered for a number of organisations to further this aim, resulting in her being awarded the Digital Volunteer of the Year Award in 2018, and culminating with her co-founding Recode, a coding school for unemployed and underemployed people throughout Bolton and the surrounding areas, for which she was recently announced as one of The Big Issue’s Top 100 Change Makers of 2020.

04/20/2022

An award-winning marketer and entrepreneur, with 10 years + experience in the technology, retail, mobile and banking sectors. Kimberley’s career began in Manchester in independent music promotion, radio and online journalism.

In 2009, Kimberley Co-Founded international communications agency SkyParlour at 26 years of age. Ten years on, from its base in central Manchester, the business has amassed clients around the world from Palo Alto, to Munich, to Jakarta and back again to Cheadle.

Kimberley is co-chair of the Pro Manchester Fintech committee and industry advisor to the University of Salford Fintech MSc programme. She is also an active member of the Founders for Schools initiative and a mentor on the Tech Manchester mentoring programme.

Under the leadership of Kimberley and business partner, Angela Yore, SkyParlour has carved out a niche in one of the world’s most exciting industries, Fintech. The business leads senior executives of international financial companies as they craft PR and communication strategies. Enabling them to stand out and gain a foothold in a ferociously competitive space.

03/28/2022

"This was easy to use for a 10-year old who is new to coding. Set up was quick and we were coding within 5 minutes.

The attractive hand shape is how you interface with the kit, is what plugs in via USB port, and this made the product fun to work with and helped us feel like our hands were actually doing the coding.

As we spent more time with it we found new ways to code. This is a very interactive device, which is great, since we're learning by doing. Each time we found a new command and saw it work quickly we were satisfied.

The hand can read message back to you via typed message or speaker. I imagine it will keep us active and learning new things each day, especially during this cabin fever winter.

Highly recommend for new coders and Dr. Who fans – we are now able to start watching the show! as an added bonus!"

03/14/2022

Angela’s is the Co-founder and joint Managing Director of SkyParlour. Her career in strategy, leadership and international communications spans 20 plus years. During this time, she has assisted businesses in the mobile, technology, e-commerce and payment sectors to find their competitive advantages and real purpose.

Over the years Angela has faced diversity issues including the difficulties in juggling a healthy work life balance with a young family. This is one of the reasons why she decided to take her career into her own hands and become an entrepreneur.

Before co-founding SkyParlour in 2009, Angela held directorships and management positions at Xerox, Océ, 2ergo, Payzone and Retail Decisions (ReD).

In her career Angela has been responsible for directing clients including Vodafone, Orange, O2, PWC, Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB), Morgan Stanley, Royal Sun Alliance, AON and Citigroup amongst others.

Angela has a Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) and a BA in Business Studies and Marketing. She’s also proud to be a co-opted governor of Wilmslow High School and a Pioneer of The Inclusion Foundation.

03/07/2022

Tynker and BBC Learning take coding to the next level with the revolutionary new BBC Doctor Who HiFive Inventor Coding Kit.

www.hifiveinventor.com

03/02/2022

Mandip Gill was born in Leeds to a Indian Sikh family who ran a newsagents shop. Gill performed from a young age for her family. She is the youngest of six sisters and has a younger brother too. She grew up surrounded by driven female role models and was given a strong work ethic. Her training was at Park Lane College, central Leeds where she studied Performing Arts. She then went on to graduate from the University of Central Lancashire, Preston in 2009 with a BA (Hons) in Acting. By her own admission, she cannot sing.

Before appearing in the Doctor Who series, her most widely known role was as a series regular in the soap opera Hollyoaks, which coincidentally also featured Tosin Cole, her series 11 co-star.

Gill appeared in Doctors for a five episode arc as a pregnant homeless woman Shazia Amin in 2016 (18.25-29) before a recurring guest role in 2017 for the popular ITV series The Good Karma Hospital as young widow Padma Kholi (episodes 1.2 and 1.6). Also in 2017 came the supporting role of Talia for all six episodes of the miniseries Loves, Lies and Records for the BBC.

02/25/2022

- "Have you or a child in your life been wanting to learn how to code?⁣
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If so, I have the perfect little tool to show you!🤗 I get messages from parents asking for different tools or kits they can use with their kids so trying this out with that in mind has been so much fun!⁣
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The Doctor Who HiFive Inventor coding kit is a mini computer designed to help anyone get started with coding!⁣"


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You can follow along with their courses in Block coding, Micro-python, and Python and take the skills you learned into creating your own projects.⁣
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As some of you guys may remember, I’ve been trying to get better at Python so I’ve spent the past couple weeks learning from the HiFive!⁣
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As an Electrical Engineer though, my favorite part about it is how simply it presents the beautiful things that can happen when you miss coding and electronics.⁣
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Head to my Reel to watch more☺️ and to the link in my bio to read more about this awesome tool!

02/21/2022

Turn the Doctor Who HiFive Inventor into a working clock!

One of our amazing beta testers!

02/18/2022

What comes in the box? Check out the answer here and more!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yxkplWiXxE

A quick unboxing of the new Doctor Who Hi5 Coding Kit from BBC Studios and Tynker!The coding kit works with an online learning program which features The Doc...

02/16/2022

Fey Ijaware is a senior front-end developer at DWP Digital. She is very passionate about diversifying tech and is the founder of CodePossible and CodeandStuff, a weekly coding and networking community for Women and Non-Binary code newbies and developers in Manchester.