Meet the Club

Mr Campbell

Job: Programmer & Youth Worker

Club Status: Club Leader

Membership: 3 Years

Computing Hero: Charles Babbage – He is credited with coming up with the concept of a programmable computer.

Hobbies: Reading Science Fiction and Fantasy novels especially anything by Terry Pratchett; Writing Games Apps for mobile platforms; Trying out extreme sports (as long as they do not involve heights).

Favourite Video Game: Pikmin 2

Interesting Fact: Mr Campbell hosts amazing barbecues.

Jeff

Club Status: Full member

Membership: 3 Years

Computing Hero: Bill Gates because when at school, he produced a timetabling program for the school and then made sure he was in classes with lots of girls.

Hobbies: Writing Python code; Gymnastics, Tai Chi and most ball sports; Jeff can often be found hanging around skateboard parks.

Favourite Video Game: Any Fifa football game.

Interesting Fact: Jeff can now climb a rope while keeping his legs out in the pike position..

Ayesha

Club Status: Full member

Membership: 3 Years

Computing Hero: Jonathan Ive the designer of the iMac, iPhone and iPad.

Hobbies: Social networking, blogging, reading and homework! Oh and all kinds of Middle Eastern dancing.

Favourite Video Game: Just Dance 3 on the XBox 360 with Kinect.

Interesting Fact: Ayesha says she loves her iPhone.

Hana

Club Status: Full member

Membership: 3 years

Computing Hero: Shigeru Miyamoto, the great Nintendo game designer.

Hobbies: Ballet; Playing on her 3DS; Having fun at Coding Club

Favourite Video Game: The Legend of Zelda

Interesting Fact: Hana's family house in London has Japanese tatami mats throughout instead of carpets.

José

Club Status: Full member

Membership: 3 years

Computing Hero: Alan Turing because he was the greatest code cracker of all time!

Hobbies: Reading especially Alex Rider books; Playing on his 3DS; doing tricks on his stunt scooter; Coding for too long (which is why he often looks sleepy!)

Favourite Video Game: Any of the Lego games – they are all so funny.

Interesting Fact: José can speak Spanish and English fluently.

Krysta

Club Status: Full member

Membership: 3 years

Computing Hero: Tim Berners-Lee the inventor of the World Wide Web!

Hobbies: Skating, Skateboarding and BMX; At the week-end she plays street hockey; Learning to code.

Favourite Video Game: Tiny Wings, Mario Kart 7

Interesting Fact: Krysta's father was a famous Speedway racer in Poland before her family moved to London 7 years ago.

Leela

Club Status: Full member

Membership: 3 years

Computing Hero: Ada Lovelace the first computer programmer. She worked with Charles Babbage.

Hobbies: Puzzles, Maths and trying to write algorithms; Playing the drums.

Favourite Video Game: Professor Layton and the Curious Village.

Interesting Fact: Leela plays drums in her elder brother's indie band.

Olly

Club Status: Full member

Membership: 1 year 9 months

Computing Hero: Limor Fried, founder of Adafruit Industries which enables anyone to be an inventor.

Hobbies: Olly is not sure which he loves the most - wheelchair basketball or embedded programming!

Favourite Video Game: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney.

Interesting Fact:Olly can do a wheelie across the whole length of a basketball court.

Madison

Club Status: Full member

Membership: 1 year

Computing Hero: Brittany Wegner, who developed a Global Neural Network Cloud Service for non invasively diagnosing malignant cancerous tumours at the age of 17! It successfully detected over 99% of malignant breast tumours in a test set. How cool is that!

Hobbies: Madison loves music, plays the clarinet and relaxes by climbing 15m indoor walls and occasionally mountains.

Favourite Video Game: Mr Campbell has got us all into playing Pikmin and I must admit, I really do love the pink flying Pikmin in Pikmin 3.

Interesting Fact: Madison is building her own 3D printer using a Raspberry Pi and parts from some old printers.