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There's no shortage of extracurricular activities available to self-isolating schoolgoers, and among them the sheer amount promising to teach coding is ironically overwhelming.
Amazon Future Engineer, however, "is a childhood-to-career programme aimed at inspiring and educating students" in an age-appropriate and structured manner.
Test the waters by building a (virtual!) dance party with an Hour of Code, or see what's next in secondary-aged content exploring the "Fourth Industrial Revolution" brought forth by code - the future has finally come home!
Free virtual coding programmes
Amazon supports students, teachers and parents with free computer science programmes during COVID-19, the growing list of resources is below.A workshop aimed at kids aged 10-13 is running at lunchtime today: www.techweek.ie/build-an-app-workshop-live-this-friday/
Build An App Workshop: LIVE this Friday! – TECH WEEK
Celebrate Tech Week with a fun, interactive App Design Workshop with RTE presenter, Mark the Science Guy, LIVE this Friday @12:30pm.Well done to Daniel Kelly on achieving his brown belt. Daniel was nearly there before we went into lockdown, and just needed to make some adjustments to his tutorial sheet. He has been working away on this over the last few weeks which is commendable. Well done Daniel!
Well done, Daniel. Well deserved, considering the circumstances. MumX. Thank you, mentors, for all your hard work.
Thanks also to the mentors for evaluating the work during the lockdown. Busy time for IT experts.
Well done Daniel! Great use of time!
Hope you are all keeping well. We had some good news last week - we heard that one of our ninjas, Dawid, has been selected as a finalist in the Scratch National Competition, run by the Irish Computer Society. The final, which would normally take place in April, has been postponed for a few months but we are delighted for Dawid. Congratulations from all of us!
Well done to those graded yesterday and last weekend: Evan, Alex, James (Scratch) and Ethan (Python).
