Show me the Boffins

Camouflaged Learning is comprised of a beautiful, fragrant group of scientists, engineers and mathematicians led, like rats out of Hamlin, by Matt Bagley. Matt and team members Peter 'Boulevard' Bullard, Simon Cox, James Napoleon, Joanne Smith and Dr Marcy Stevenson write, develop and deliver Camouflaged Learning’s inspirational science and engineering projects, as well as involve students in a great many other areas such as enterprise, team working and communication. Often they will try to shoehorn having a snooze into a project, but this is normally kept under control with mild electric shocks.

Matt Bagley
Matt is a fully qualified mechanical engineer and has over 15 years experience in many areas of engineering, including motorsport and the offshore oil and gas industries. Matt is deeply passionate about engineering, science, technology and math's, and left a successful job in industry to pass on this passion and enthusiasm to young learners in the hope of inspiring them into becoming engineers of the future. He spent five years working as the manager, key deliverer and developer of SET-Point Norfolk and all its programmes, and was single-handedly responsible for turning the SET-Point into the most sought-after deliverer of science and engineering education in the region. Matt left Setpoint Norfolk in December 2006 to form Camouflaged Learning, a company that by now we're sure you've realised is riddled with brilliance and effortless charm.

Matt considers himself to be most fortunate that a role such as his at Camouflaged Learning exists, as his extensive breadth of engineering experience belies a terrible secret: he's a really rubbish engineer. Luckily, where his engineering abilities let him down he's awesomely over-endowed in the enthusiasm, passion and ability to inspire departments, a fact to which over 10,000 students and 250 teachers will readily attest.

Critically, due to his lustrous yet ludicrous hair Matt considers himself to be the most appealing member of the team, though that is a matter of some debate among those people who have met him or happen to be upwind of him.

Peter Bullard
Peter has had a career doing sensible, professional, business activities and now he works with Camouflaged Learning. He has always wondered what he would like to do when he grows up but having found Camouflaged Learning he is not sure he will bother (growing up that is). His ambition is to introduce a new phrase into the English language - a "Purple Ferret" which is the Norfolk equivalent of a Red Herring. Check the Google count for "Purple Ferret" to see if he is succeeding and please use the phrase whenever you have the chance. He is still trying to convince people that the letters FIS after his name describe his effervescent character and definitely not the Fellowship of the Institute of Statisticians. He is also quite fond of fuscia pink, but in today's world were not allowed to mock him for it.

David "Larky" Larkman
Dave is a fully qualified design engineer with decades of experience, some of it in engineering. A bite from a radioactive spider (back in the days when spiders were still radioactive and not genetically modified) has given him a superhuman resistance to facial hair, although sadly not ginger facial hair. Dave has been genuinely impressed with some of the engineering solutions thought up by pupils, and fears for his future employment if the new generation of cheap talented engineers can't be sidelined by encouraging them to become lawyers instead. Please remember to tip your volunteer as we refuse to pay him.

Simon Cox
Simon Cox was born in 1977 and has a degree in Chemistry, a First Aid certificate and a gold 100m swimming badge. Simon is so devoted to good science that he once wrote to the Advertising Standards Authority and got a Cillit Bang advert changed because it said “limescale is just calcium that sticks”, when it isn’t, it’s calcium carbonate, which is a totally different thing altogether. Simon is also on a relentless quest to stop Verbs being Nouned, as he says in his latest governmental paper "verbing weirds language". Well, quite.

James Napoleon
James is Camouflaged Learning's resident perilously short person. Some say if he were ever to fall down, seaweed would stop being able to predict the weather and cheese would stop altogether. Luckily for us he's a first rate person, and nearly a second rate engineer. He's also the teams biggest asset and greatest boffin, though those two facts are totally unrelated. Indeed, should Jamie ever harness both his massive skill sets at once it is said that the world will stop spinning on its axis, and everyone will slowly go French. For this reason alone, we keep him adequately padlocked and over-zealously sedated. This does not seem to dampen his enthusiasm for all things parabolic and all functions sine. but NEVER cosine. Much to Matt's dismay, James is everyone's favourite. Including Matt's

Joanne Smith
Fish scientist extraordanaire. Jo is single handedly responsible for all things wet. Her work with Camouflaged Learning is a thinly veiled excuse to 'experiment' with cakes and cake engineering. Frankly, she's fooling no-one. She's also a girl, but don't let that put you off.

Dr. Marcy Stevenson
Marcy is Camouflaged Learning's sheen expert, and is more than a little concerned with the plight of science. Unfortunately this is because Dr. Marcy is so clever he cannot understand that science isn't in fact an animal. Only last year he bought science a collar for Christmas and was deeply put out when science took it back and exchanged it for vouchers.

Volunteers
In addition to our happy-go-lucky band of scientists and engineers we try to involve expert volunteers from relevant industry sectors to support each activity, so that the students gain access to real, honest information and also invaluable experience of working with people already doing the job. For us this is one of the most effective and rewarding elements of the work, and it improves the whole experience: students love competing with the experts on challenges and often derive solutions that the experts could not. Admittedly this means they often sulk in the car when we’re dropping them home, but we don’t mind because the students really enjoy it.

All volunteers are fully Criminal Records Bureau checked and cleared and are registered on the governmental volunteers database as Science and Engineering Ambassadors. Some of them have beards.