Sarah-Jayne Carey is the ICT-Co-Ordinator and Computer Science and coding teacher in Coláiste Bride Presentation Secondary School- a large girls school in Dublin.
She has over 20 years teaching experience-including further and higher education. She is on the executive of the subject association for Leaving Certificate Computer Science - CESI ( Computers in Education Society of Ireland)
She is a part-time lecturer in Maynooth University and Dublin City University, working with pre-service computer science teachers, and also works with the PDST( Professional Development Service for Teachers) with the Computer Science Team.
She is passionate about promoting coding and computer science for all, and making her students aware of the many career options and possibilities in tech. She believes in using digital technologies to empower students, and to improve and enhance education and learning for the whole school community.
She started learning Python, to be able to teach Python - and still feels like a student - always learning!