List of hackathons in Castletroy, Ireland in 2018

Save the date for this year's DojoCon. Book your place... Friday 19th October At the Opening Ceremony we will welcome visiting Dojo members & volunteers, speakers & sponsors. It will be held in the upstairs function room of our City’s award winning Left Bank bar, located across from Kilkenny Castle. This event will have a number of speakers opening the conference, and will be followed by a celebration with canapés and refreshments. Saturday 20th October Who should attend? The workshops will be targeted at anyone aged 13 to 113, with an interest in technology.   A variety of 45 minute workshops and speakers are planned under the following themes:  1. Make It   -   focusing on invention, creativity and resourcefulness.  2. Design It   -   focusing on design and the use of technology for building club resources.  3. Code It  -  forum to get ideas on areas including Minecraft coding, Scratch, Unity, drone coding. 4. Create It   -   bring the code alive with Meet Edison, Raspberrry Pi, App Inventor, Microbit . 5. Share It   -   forum to share ideas/discussion points amongst our coding community. 6. Discuss It   -  On the main stage, themes include technology, diversity, STREAM, Education, Community. 7. Cosy Up to It   -   fireside chat with women in technology. There will be workshops for all levels of mentors and parent volunteers in our Dojos . The workshops are also suitable for those interested in setting up their own Dojo or anyone with an interest in technology. Click here to see the full Saturday program And check out our latest press release here. Sunday 21st October Sunday will provide an opportunity to get all Ninjas (7-17 years olds) together for a fun filled Hackathon,  Click here for more details To assist with your travel plans book your accommodation on ie.hotels.com and use code “DOJOCON2018”. This will give you 10% off your hotel accommodation, and is applicable to hotels in Ireland for the month of October. Must be booked by October 02, 2018. Visit our website for more details:  http://dojocon.coderdojo.com/

Great care and attention is required in the judicious use of online sources in academic work. No online source has gained more publicity than Wikipedia, whose distrust perhaps stems from a misunderstanding of how it works in real terms. Wikipedia’s many volunteers globally perform updates to help build the encyclopaedia and improve the quality of Wikipedia for all. Wikipedia is increasingly being used by lecturers and librarians In the development of digital skills and critical thinking. Supported by Wikimedia Ireland’s Dr Rebecca O’Neill, UL’s Michelle Breen and Sinéad Keogh will host a Wikipedia Hackathon at the Glucksman Library on March 22nd. This workshop on how to edit Wikipedia will help to evaporate the many misconceptions that persist with this online resource. According to Wikimedia Ireland’s Rebecca O’Neill, “even a brief introduction to editing illustrates quickly how rigorous the standards are on Wikipedia in relation to references and plagiarism, as well as how quickly vandalism can be reverted and even minor errors be corrected”. Wikipedia has a significant backlog of wikis that editors can update. In this Wikipedia Hackathon participants will gain the skills to join a global community and develop expertise in finding information and using those skills to make Wikipedia a better, more reliable place, one citation at a time! After attending this Wikipedia Hackathon, participants will have learned how to: •             Edit Wikipedia •             Find articles that are in need of edit •             Add reliable citations. This event at UL is organised as part of the pan-European All Digital Week

GMIT Hackathon 2018, powered by Bank of Ireland and Microsoft Theme: Education * Currently only open to 4th Year students of Software Development, GMIT *