About Think Create Learn

What I do, who I am, who I work with.

Welcome!

Think Create Learn provide fun and engaging ways for students of all ages to discover the creative side of computing. We do this by combining computer science, engineering, electronics and data science in hands-on projects where students explore and experiment across these disciplines.

Our Mission

To build employable skills in a fun and engaging way
To help students make informed decisions about career paths and further study options
To help develop the next generation of programmers and engineers
To raise awareness of the enormous creativity in the field of computing
To engage, first and foremost, with local communities and local educational institutions who share these goals

Our Approach

Focus on hands-on learning
Learn by exploration and discovery
Project-based building and making
Encourage students to experiment
Remove the fear of making mistakes
Use industry standard tools and components

Main Subject Areas

Robotics
Electronics
Programming
Artificial Intelligence
Data Science
Engineering

We achieve this through short courses, workshops and clubs delivered to schools, community groups, private groups, universities and other organisations.

We also work with individuals looking to learn or bring creative computing into their portfolio. This includes students, artists and the incurably curious!

About Llewelyn

Think Create Learn is an education intitiative of Llewelyn Fernandes, an experienced and respected computer scientist.

My name is Llewelyn Fernandes. By training and profession I am a computer scientist. I am also what is commonly called these days a "maker". I make things. I enjoy making things. I have a passion for making things. In fact, I need to make things! Through that making I have learnt far more than I ever learnt in a classroom. In Think Create Learn my aim is to bring a "make-first" approach to learning to my students, making learning fun, creative, interactive, productive and ultimately successful.

My Qualifications

I gained a degree in Computer Science from Brunel University in 1989 and spent 28 years building a very successful career in software development and consultancy. During this time I worked as a low-level coder in a small start-up, a developer in an engineering firm, a machine learning researcher and developer, and a consultant and practice manager in a business intelligence consultancy. During this time, I've worked with many organisations, from small charities to large corporate household names. I also recruited developers and saw, first hand, the strengths and weaknesses of young people coming into the workforce from universities and schools.

Why teaching, why now?

Whilst working at the cutting-edge on big projects with big companies was very exciting, working in a senior management role took me away from the day-to-day hands-on activity that got me into computer programming and other forms of making when I was a teenager. Occasionally in my management role I would find an opportunity to get stuck into a little bit of programming or design work which would re-invigorate my passion for a brief moment, before I'd have to hand the work over to a younger colleague to complete. Moving into teaching hits two of my "happy" buttons. Firstly I can get back to the nuts-and-bolts of programming and making from scratch. Secondly, I can get the immense satisfaction of passing on my knowledge and experience to the enthusiastic individuals who will become the programmers, computer engineers and makers of the future.

Feel free to take a look at my LinkedIn profile.

Organisations we work with

Goldsmiths is part of the University of London (UOL). The Department of Computing staff come from a range of real-world and arts-based practices, offering a uniquely creative experience in this discipline.

Llewelyn is a part-time lecturer with the Department of Computing at Goldsmiths.

London College of Communication (LCC) (part of University of Arts London) is a pioneering world leader in creative communications education

Llewelyn is an associate lecturer at LCC, teaching programming and data visualisation. He also delivers a range of short courses there.

The University of West London (UWL) offer a range of courses from its locations in Ealing and Brentford. 98% of graduates are employed or in further study within six months of graduation.

Llewelyn delivers a range of short courses for adults at UWL.

OpenClassrooms is an online platform offering top quality, education-to-employment programs and career coaching services for students worldwide.

Llewelyn creates online courses for OpenClassrooms and also works with them on developing their UK and US data analyst apprenticeship programme.

There are some of the courses he has developed:

Improve your Data Literacy

Perform and Exploratory Data Analysis

Train a Supervised Machine Learning Model

Evaluate the Performance of a Machine Learning Model

Girls Into Coding provides girls aged 10 to 14 with unique hands-on experience in physical computing, robotics and coding.

We create and run workshops at the regular events organised by Girls Into Coding.

ESDEG's mission is to break the poverty cycle by developing self-esteem, inspiring a strong work ethic, and encouraging aspirational goals.

We partner with ESDEG to deliver learning opportunities and mentoring for young people in Ealing. This involves working with local schools and community centres to inspire kids to see the benefit of learning and skill development.

Vision RCL deliver cultural and leisure services for the London Borough of Redbridge.

We run kids coding and robotics workshops for Vision RCL at their libraries.

We run free kids coding and robotics workshops for Ealing Libraries.

NEC is a not-for-profit distance learning provider.

Llewelyn has worked with NEC to create an online iGCSE course.

Tutors and Exams are an independent private candidate exam centre.

We provide NEA support to students taking GCSE and A-Level Computer Science through Tutors and Exams.

About Think Create Learn

Think Create Learn Ltd is a company registered in United Kingdom under number 15862776

Registered Office: 71-75, Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9JQ UNITED KINGDOM