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On Saturday 28th November we will run a shorter coding session and then will be joined by a guest speaker. Our guest speaker is Brendan Fields, who is engineering manager for Demonware. Brendan looks after the IT infrastructure for well-known games including Tony Hawk, Crash Bandicoot and Guitar Hero. Demonware also look after the networking for Activision games. Should be interesting!
The final of the 2020 Scratch National Competition, run by the Irish Computer Society took place (online) today. Coderdojo Malahide was represented by Dawid, who had been selected as a finalist back in March. We were delighted to hear that Dawid won the "after-school coding 5th-6th class" category. Well done Dawid!!
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National Scratch Competition | Irish Computer Society
The competition is open to students in primary and second level schools in Ireland, and to students attending after-school coding clubs such as Coderdojo. Projects can be about anything – the only limit is students’ imagination.BRILLIANT ....Well Done Dawid 🤩
We have submitted 4 entries to the Coderdojo Boo Challenge competition (Lucy, Tristan, Aaron and Yang - good work kids!). If anyone else wants to submit an entry please email malahide@coderdojo.com before end of tomorrow 1st November.
DojoMor are hosting an online day of coding workshops this Saturday 24th October, 10am to 2pm. www.dojomor.ie/ Each workshop is 1 hour long and there are 8 to choose from, a good opportunity to try out a new technology.
The Coderdojo foundation is running a Halloween competition. Something to work on over the mid-term break? They say they have some "awesome" prizes to give out (and with many clubs closed at the moment any entry may have a good chance of winning a prize!). Details at coderdojo.com/2020/10/01/the-coderdojo-boo-challenge-is-back/
The CoderDojo Boo Challenge is back! - CoderDojo
CoderDojo volunteers and clubs all around the world have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic. When considering whether, and how, to run a fun coding challenge for Ninjas this October, we wanted to make sure that we heard from the CoderDojo community. We reached out to a number of community mem...