239 Cool Sites About Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
Here’s a great link to a fantastic collection of sites where you can learn lots of cool stuff!
Learn to model plasticine characters at the Dublin Animation Film Festival
The Dublin Animation Film Festival is dedicated to showcasing short animated films by Irish and international animators, holding industry related events and introducing the joy of animation and creativity to children.
The 2014 Festival will take place on the 17 and 18 October in the Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT) and the Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin.
There will be two two plasticine modelling workshops at the Festival. The workshops will take place on Saturday, 18th October 2014 at Unit 341, Level Three, Dún Laoghaire Shopping Centre.
Workshops are suitable for children aged 8+. A parent or
responsible adult is welcome to attend.
2.00pm – 3.00pm – Make Your Own Gromit plasticine modelling workshop.
3.15pm – 4.15pm – Make Your own Gromit plasticine modelling workshop.
To book a space at the childrens’ workshop, please register at
daff2014workshops@gmail.com.
The cost per child is €15.
Pre-registration is essential as places are limited.
For more information see here: www.dublinanimationfilmfestival.com
DojoCon2014 in Sligo Fri/Sat 3/4 October
DojoCon, the great annual CoderDojo conference is being hosted by CoderDojo Sligo this weekend in the Institute of Technology, Sligo. CoderDojo mentors, anyone interested in becoming a mentor at a dojo or anyone looking to start a dojo, for parents, educators and technologists are all welcome.
Booking via dojocon.coderdojo.com
The Friday evening event starts at 6pm in Canis Major at the Clarion Hotel, Sligo, with a jam-packed Saturday kicking off from 8.30 am in the Knocknarea Arena on the IT Sligo campus.
If you can’t make it, don’t worry, the conference will be streamed live!
Coolest Projects Awards 2014
Coolest Projects Award 2014 – What an event, over 250 projects with entries coming from as far as Poland and Romania, as well as a similar event being hosted on the same day in Silicon Valley! Bill Liao gave a fantastic opening speech encouraging all Coderdojo Ninja’s to get out there and form their own Dojo’s! Well done DCU!
After the opening it was full steam ahead with the judging with entrants having worked hard with their Projects including Scratch games, Websites, HTML5 games, Arduino projects and much more.
Here’s some projects we were blown away by….
Here’s Kinsale Dojo whose project consisted of an app to enable you to unlock and lock your door using wifi and the Cloud!
Here’s a Ninja’s (all the way from Poland) who built a Website on a raspberry Pi to display a video feed from a Car mounted Camera – and the Raspberry Pi was on the Car too!.
And how about playing Minecraft with Occulus 3D glasses and motion sensing with the Xbox motion sensor
And I saw some cool new robotics kits from www.mechatrons.com – we will have to start saving for these!
The top prizes were awarded to an e-car charger locator app, a wild western game, and Camera selfies, a website which allows you to share selfies at large events.
http://www.businessandleadership.com/leadership/item/46286-coderdojo-announces-winners/
http://www.coolestprojects.org
and some Video’s are now available on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/
Flappy Bird Scratch Edition
Did anyone miss out on Flappy Bird? We will be taking a look at this in more detail over the next few weeks and we invite you to write your own platform game using some of the techniques found in this project….
Other CoderDojos in Dun Laoghaire area
For young coders who are waiting to join CoderDojo, unfortunately our waiting list is over 100, however we list here any new dojos that we hear about (each dojo is independent) –
Dalkey (Saturdays 3 pm – 5.30 pm in Muggs Cafe): Contact: dalkey.ie@coderdojo.com http://zen.coderdojo.com/dojo/593
For Stillorgan Library (Saturdays 10.15am. Ages 8-13): Contact: stillorganlib@dlrcoco.ie or Tel 01-2889655 (This dojo is not shown on the CoderDojo website listing, so it may not be active.)
Cabinteely at the Grainstore is on Saturdays from 2 to 4 pm. Contact: cabinteely.ie@coderdojo.com or www.dlrgrainstore.ie Twitter: @cabinteelygrain
Glencullen in St Patrick’s National School, Saturdays 4.30 pm – 6 pm. Contact: coderdojoglencullen@gmail.com http://zen.coderdojo.com/dojo/603
Apparently there is also a CoderDojo at the Beacon Hotel Sandyford: Contact: beaconcoderdojo@gmail.com http://zen.coderdojo.com/dojo/328
Here’s a list of CoderDojos worldwide (including Ireland) – click here – useful for if you’re going on holidays 😉
Most dojos would really like to have more mentors on board – please pass the word on to anyone you know who may be interested – more info here.
CoderDojo Dun Laoghaire new video
Watch our great video and see why the young coders, the mentors and the parents all think CoderDojo Dun Laoghaire is fantastic!
Here’s a couple of photos of our stand at the Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council Community Awards, hopefully we will be awarded a prize on 21st November! (Edit – we did! We came FIRST in the Children & Young Adult category!)
Why should kids code? Watch this…
Coding isn’t just for computer whizzes, says Mitch Resnick of MIT Media Lab — it’s for everyone. In a fun, demo-filled talk Resnick outlines the benefits of teaching kids to code, so they can do more than just “read” new technologies — but also create them.
http://www.ted.com/talks/mitch_resnick_let_s_teach_kids_to_code.html
Welcome to the new CoderDojo Dun Laoghaire
We launched on Wednesday 23 January and would be happy to hear from anyone with coding skills who is interested in mentoring.
CoderDojo Dun Laoghaire is based in IADT and happens on Wednesday evenings from 6.30 – 8.30 pm.
Advance booking required – contact us for details.
Have you a question? Get in touch.
Email: CoderDojoDL@coderdojo.com
Do you know any young people interested in learning to code? For free?! Let them know about us. One rule only – Above All: Be Cool
Follow us on Twitter: @CoderDojoDL