Maggie Philbin has become a household name during an extensive career, from her early days as a co-presenter of Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, demonstrating a vast number of innovations on Tomorrow’s World from the world’s first mobile phones to supermarket barcode scanners, to the present day helping teenagers, parents and teachers better understand the opportunities available to young people in science and technology.

Maggie speaks with Andy McColl about the positive impact the TeenTech Awards has had on students and schools, her feelings on the current well publicised skills shortage and some fond memories of working in television and radio for more than three decades.

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