Hello! :D
I'm Kirstie, the Under 13 Community Manager at SG. I'm autistic and ADHD and I live in Cheshire :)
Random Stuff About Me:
I like sci-fi, anime, cake and nature.
Some of my fave animals are frogs, sea slugs, corvids and tardigrades!
I enjoy writing, editing, web design and being creative.
Some of my fave video games are Fallout 3, The Sims 4, and most Pokemon and Zelda games!
I have worked for SG for almost 3 years and started off as a volunteer before becoming a Community Manager.
I used to run a Home Ed Computing Club and have qualifications from the Raspberry Pi Foundation to teach programming and Computer Science at Primary level - Scratch, Micro:bit, Raspberry Pi, HTML etc.
I have had a random assortment of jobs before working at SG, including working in Education, Content Creation, Nutrition & Wellbeing, Customer Service and also ran my own business as a Seamstress! :)
I once made a short film that was shown on BBC2.
I met Terry Pratchett once and he let me touch his hat.
Stuff I Don't Like:
Mornings!
Small Talk
Cucumber >:(
Stuff I am Passionate About/ Interested in:
Mental health and wellbeing, especially suicide prevention.
PMDD awareness and treatment.
Home Education as a first choice and Self-Directed Education.
Neuroscience, especially neurodiversity and how ND brains work.
Pokemon :)