Tagged: CoderDojo & News
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CoderDojo NYC co-founder calls for more female mentors (video) News
24.04.2013 Rebecca Garcia, the 22-year-old co-founder of the first CoderDojo in New York City, says that learning how to code could enable children to overcome social and economic barriers...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Games/Entertainment, Engineering, Education, Economy, Development, Design -
Interview with Black Girls Code founder Kimberly Bryant (video) News
25.04.2013 In perfect timing for today’s Girls in ICT Day comes our interview with the founder of Black Girls Code Kimberly Bryant. She started Black Girls Code in 2011 and it is now...Categories: Upskilling, Training, Software & Web Development, Software, Internet, Education, Economy, Digital Media, Computers, Apps -
Interview with CoderDojo Diva Limerick’s Karen O’Connell (video) News
25.04.2013 Today is Girls in ICT Day and the perfect occasion to highlight an interview with Karen O’Connell, mother of three and a former Dell worker, who helps run CoderDojo Divas in...Categories: Upskilling, Training, Software & Web Development, Software, Education, Economy, Development, Design -
Girls that code could help fix skills shortage bugging tech News
23.04.2013 Normally, Slane Castle in Co Meath is associated with the deifying of rock royalty, like U2 or the Rolling Stones. But on a sunny April Saturday morning the talk was of a...Categories: Training, Software Development, R&D, Leadership & Management, Education, Computers, Careers and Employment -
CoderDojoGirls kicks off at DCU this Saturday News
22.04.2013 CoderDojoGirls kicks off at Dublin City University (DCU) this weekend - and an article on Siliconrepublic.com has played an important part in getting it going. -
World's first Engineering Dojo teaches robotics to 10-14-year-olds News
22.04.2013 Inspired by CoderDojo, which has spread to 16,000 children in 26 countries, Ireland’s first Engineering Dojo took place last week after enlisting the support of 15 companies in...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Science, Games/Entertainment, Engineering, Engineer, Education, Economy, Digital Media -
Cork ‘Does the Math’ to solve STEM issues in girls’ schools News
18.04.2013 Concerned industry and business leaders in Cork have banded together to raise awareness of the importance of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) in girls’ schools....Categories: Upskilling, Software & Web Development, Software, Science, Internet, Engineering, Engineer, Education -
Time to nurture the creative passion of a new generation of coders (video) News
16.04.2013 The gathering of CoderDojo mentors at DojoCon 2013 at Slane Castle in Co Meath at the weekend demonstrated the mentors’ resolve to instill a passion for creativity and...Categories: Upskilling, Training, Software & Web Development, Software, Games/Entertainment, Education, Economy, Digital Media -
Tweak.com's Jerry Kennelly: Ireland needs to become a land of coders and scholars News
15.04.2013 The saints and scholars tag for Ireland is defunct – it now needs to be known as the land of ‘coders and scholars’, Kerry technology entrepreneur Jerry Kennelly told DojoCon,... -
11-year-old Irish kid claims to be Europe’s youngest published app developer News
15.03.2013 Eleven-year-old Caolan Fleming from Killenard near Portarlington, Co Laois, is believed to be currently Europe’s youngest published app developer with his game Rampage now live... -
San Francisco mayor to ‘virtually’ lead two transatlantic St Patrick’s Day parades News
16.03.2013 For the first time, a mayor will lead St Patrick’s Day parades on both sides of the Atlantic. Enabled by Cisco’s TelePresence technology, the mayor of San Francisco Ed Lee will... -
CoderDojo girls find confidence from the keyboards News
15.03.2013 CoderDojo offers an environment where children and teens can learn about coding and creating with technology. Claire O’Connell and her daughter, Niamh, take a look at it from... -
Dublin’s Lord Mayor to set wheels in motion for city’s Digital Masterplan on Friday News
05.03.2013 The Lord Mayor of Dublin Mr Naoise Ó Muirí will set in motion the creation of a Digital Masterplan for Dublin on Friday, modelled on similar digital development plans in New... -
Slane Castle the venue for next CoderDojo mentor conference: Rock ‘n’ Code News
01.03.2013 Usually the venue for rock concerts, Slane Castle will be the venue for the next DojoCon on 12 April. Now in its second year, the conference aims to help mentors share know-how... -
‘Innovation Week’ events to run at CIT in March News
20.02.2013 Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) will be hosting a week-long series of events covering innovation and entrepreneurship across five campus locations in early March, including...Categories: Web, Software Development, Software, Social Media, Science, Mobile, Graduate, Education, Apps, Application Design and Development -
Leaving Cert student launches iOS exam paper app for fellow students News
08.02.2013 Cork Leaving Cert student and CoderDojo member Dylan Varian has published an app on the Apple App Store that provides Leaving and Junior Cert students and their teachers with...Categories: Wireless Communications, Software & Web Development, Software, Phones, Education, Consumer Tech, Apps -
Child coders teach Europe’s leaders the lingua franca of the 21st century News
05.02.2013 When James Whelton was a 14-year-old teenager growing up in Cork he got a call from a panicked neighbour whose nephew had just been diagnosed with a tumour behind his eye. A... -
Young coders and AR drones take European Parliament by storm News
29.01.2013 Thirty-six kids ages six to 16 from a number of EU countries and members of the fast-growing CoderDojo movement planted a very important seed in the mind of MEPs at the European... -
13-year-old coder Jordan Casey to launch multiplayer virtual world News
25.01.2013 Move over Michael Acton Smith and Moshi Monsters, there’s a new virtual world on the way and it is the creation of 13-year-old Irish software developer Jordan Casey and his... -
Interview: 14-year-old coder Harry Moran talks about his latest game (video) News
09.01.2013 Last year, Harry Moran from Cork became world famous as the world’s youngest Mac app developer when his first game PizzaBot overtook Angry Birds and Call of Duty in the App...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Apps