Hal MacLean, myself and Director of Ultralab (1990-2006), Richard Millwood from the Ultralab (1990-2006) team at Anglia Ruskin University spent the afternoon and evening with the BBC Blast team in White City’s Media Centre, London to share and celebrate with the wider BBC the progress made by Blast, the BBC’s creative platform giving kids a place to be creative.  Malcolm Burnett and two students from King Harold School supported the event by demonstrating creative Animation work to the BBC audience.

Ultralab (1990-2006)’s SMS wall of stickies was available, developed by Alexander Blanc, the underpinning SMS system ‘UltraSMS’ developed by Tim Ellis

Mark Thompson, Director General of the BBC was at the event and commented that Blast is one of the most important things the BBC is doing.