Bio

Founder and project leader of Turtlestitch (TS). TS builds on the comprehensive, graphical programming environment Snap! What started as an artistic experiment together with a fashion designer has become an active educational community-platform that combines programming and machine embroidery. Today, it is used by learners and educators from a wide range of backgrounds and skill-levels with a strong prescence of girls and women. TurtleStitch is developed by Andrea and the lead programmer Michael Aschauer.

I have worked on numerous artistic and educational internet projects since the late 1990s. I am an artist and media developer with many years of experience in developing open source software for children and adults. I currently work for the Vienna University Children's office, where I
develop media use programmes for children and young people and implements innovative media education concepts.