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Heather Lyons: Because these are such unprecedented times, this was an amazing opportunity to get some feedback

July 11, 2021 • Season 2 • Episode 45

Heather Lyons is the co-founder of Blue Shift Coding, a company on a mission to empower young people to be more than tech consumers, to be digital creators!

Heather originally trained as an architect, but had always worked in technology as a user experience (UX) designer.

In 2013, Heather was approached by some mums who were keen for their children to learn to code. Heather had been teaching computer-based design at university level in London and had children of my own. She was also passionate about empowering children to create with code as opposed to simply consuming technology through yet another device. With this in mind, she set about teaching code. Their first term started with eight children in her garden! Those eight children all re-enrolled and they soon started running after-school clubs at a nearby girls’ school.

Now Blue-Shift offers online classes, after school clubs, holiday camps and private tuition to lots of young people who are getting excited about being tech creators

How important it is to gather evidence for your product
Opportunities to design better education
How she helps her team avoid burnout
Building the right team and the value of a company scorecard

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About Blue Shift Coding

Website: https://blueshiftcoding.com

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