Franco Ferrari-Accardi
Manchester, UK · English & Spanish

Electronic Engineer & Educator

I design and build learning systems, educational robotics programmes and workflow automations for organisations working with children, young people and adults developing digital skills.

Franco Ferrari-Accardi
312+ Learners
Active learner records and 2,564 attendance logs across the UK and Ghana digital platform.
300 → 1,200 Students/yr
Scaled Fundación Mustakis' national educational robotics programme across 11 Chilean cities.
9 Open Repositories
Production apps, multilingual forms, coding games, robotics curricula and AI automations.

EdTech & Educational Robotics

Learning games, early years applications and structured robotics curricula designed around computational thinking.

Coding Game HTML5 Canvas · JS

Fido's Kente Quest

Browser coding game teaching children sequencing, decomposition and step by step debugging. Players queue movement commands to guide Fido across a grid and reach the kente cloth. Built independently and donated to Sovereign House GH.

Early Years App React 19 · TypeScript

Kids Learning App

Spoken learning app for alphabet, numbers and simple addition up to 10. Uses the Web Speech API so every instruction and prompt is read aloud for pre-readers. Built independently and donated to Sovereign House GH.

Curriculum mBot2 · mBlock 5

mBot Neo Robotics Curriculum

Complete 12 hour project based syllabus (six 2 hour sessions) for learners aged 11 to 16. Covers sensors, loops, variables, conditionals, logical operators and autonomous line following with obstacle detection.

Full Stack Charity Operations Platform

Interconnected Next.js, React and Capacitor Android applications built for Sovereign House GH in Greater Manchester and Ghana.

Operations Portal Next.js 15 · TypeScript · Firebase

SHGH Intranet Portal

Central staff portal handling student and volunteer recruitment, UK and Ghana attendance analytics, annual leave, policy compliance, laptop inventory, grant tracking and Gemini AI assistants for grant writing and social media. Sends Microsoft 365 mail via workload identity federation with zero stored secrets.

Android & Web App Capacitor · Firebase · JS

SHGH Learning App (UK)

Used by teachers, volunteers and admins across Greater Manchester digital skills courses to take offline capable registers, submit session reports, log volunteer hours and award service badges. Features automatic rollback over the air updates.

Offline First App Capacitor · Firestore Offline

SHGH Attendance App (Ghana)

Built for low connectivity at Sovereign House GH's school in Ghana. Teachers take class attendance from Creche to Primary, manage school library loans and request leave, with offline Firestore caching and over the air updates.

Multilingual Forms React 19 · i18next · Firebase

SHGH Application Forms

Mobile friendly public course application, robotics enrolment and partner referral forms in five languages (English, Arabic, Tigrinya, Amharic and Farsi) with automatic right to left layout and PayPal payment confirmation.

AI & Workflow Automation

Event driven automation pipelines, computer vision safeguarding tools and programmatic publishing.

Workflow Automation n8n · Google Workspace · PayPal

n8n Automations

Importable n8n workflows and REST configuration scripts that provision student Google Workspace accounts, enrol learners in Google Classroom, send Gmail and WhatsApp welcome messages, and reconcile PayPal IPN and webhook payments in Firestore.

Web & Computer Vision Python · OpenCV · Puppeteer

Website & Safeguarding Automation

Local WordPress mirror, automated REST API page publishers, Puppeteer verification scripts and an OpenCV face detection pipeline that automatically anonymises children's faces in workshop photos before publication.

Background & Qualifications

Career

  • Digital Inclusion Officer · Sovereign House GH (Greater Manchester & Ghana, 2025 to Present)
  • STEM Learning Manager · Eureka! Science + Discovery (2023 to 2025)
  • National Manager, Educational Robotics · Fundación Mustakis, Chile (2016 to 2020)

Education & Research

  • MA Education (Social Justice) · University of Birmingham, UK (Merit)
  • BSc Electronic Engineering · Universidad de La Frontera, Chile (Distinction)
  • Research Interests: Computational thinking assessment, Bayesian Knowledge Tracing, Rasch modelling