Katherine Rowlandson
Kippie CIC
Katherine has a degree in applied arts, and she has a varied background in project delivery, the community and voluntary sector and management in film and TV before co - founding Kippie
Kippie CIC is an award winning social enterprise that works with groups traditionally excluded from the game making process, to help them make their own games and tell their own stories.
Recognised in 2018 as one of The Observer and Nesta’s New Radicals and chosen by gamesindustry.biz as one of their ‘Game Changers’ of 2021
Katherine Rowlandson is speaking at the following session/s
Getting Girls into Game Development - Starting Early
Katherine and Kippie have been delivering game development workshops to girls in Northern Ireland aged 11 - 14 since 2017. In that time she has learnt a lot about why girls don’t always feel like they have a future in game dev, particularly when it comes to code, and how to challenge that mind set. During this Roundtable she will examine the reasons for this, looking at how the media portrays programmers and gamers in general, why IT education in port primary schools is failing young women in particular and the importance of positive role models. She will share her experiences, successes, failures and what she has learned from working with her students. She will look at how she has learned to teach game dev and coding in a ‘no pressure’ nurturing environment, the importance of fun and exploration, and why, as a tutor, making mistakes is one of the best things you can do.
Session Takeaway
- Why girls aren’t studying coding at school
- How to make coding more appealing for girls
- How the media is perpetuating stereotypes that are harmful for girls
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