CoderDojo Limerick 17th October 2015

MegaDojo

We hope everyone had a fantastic time at MegaDojo. This was our biggest event to date and it didn’t disappoint. There was loads going on throughout the day with 100s of kids taking part in workshops, the incredible Stephen Howell and his dancing (digital) cat, Mags & Susan’s bots, the drone, 3d printing, sensors for food, film screenings and Sean’s explosions. A big thank you to our youth mentors and the parents who volunteered to help us on the day. You guys were brilliant. The planning for MegaDojo 2016 has already started and we look forward to making it bigger and better
You can find a full report and photos on www.coderdojomidwest.com

Web Summit

The Web Summit is Europe’s largest tech event and will take place in the RDS on November 3^rd, 4^thand 5^th (last time it will be held in Dublin). The CoderDojo Foundation is looking for some ninjas to come a present their projects on one of these days. If you are interested in applying, please emaillimerick@coderdojo.com ASAP for more details. Please include your name, a brief description of your project and the day(s) you can attend.

Startup Weekend

Startup Weekend Limerick is a competition where people with business ideas have 54 hours to develop a business from scratch and present a pitch to a team of judges (a bit like the MegaDojo hackathon). The organisers have kindly offered us a few tickets for ninjas aged 12+ to the closing event on Sunday 22^nd November where the teams will be pitching their business ideas. Can anyone interested email limerick@coderdojo.com

Adult Python Workshop

If there are any adults interested in taking part in a series of beginners Python programming workshops, can they email baz@coderdojo.com to express interest 

Please make sure to scroll down and Book your Ticket for this weeks Coderdojo by clicking on the “Attend Event” button at the bottom of this email in order to alleviate the queues on Saturday morning.

For all the latest news from Coderdojo check out this link and Coderdojo.com

Book your place for this Saturdays Coderdojo below and we look forward to seeing you all there,

The Limerick Coderdojo team

Very Important:

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To satisfy insurance, health and safety, and child protection requirements, it is necessary that members under 13 have a parent or a named responsible adult present for the full duration of their stay.  So that we can know who is responsible for each young member, we require a supervisor reserved ticket with the name of the person staying with the young member.

Members will not be allowed into rooms until 11am and we ask that you be there on time so that we can minimise the disruption caused by members arriving late. (Please let us know by email in advance if you will be late).

Tidy up will start at 1.45pm and while we encourage parents to be there at this time, we ask that you do not take away any members until all the rooms are back to the way they were when we arrived. LIT are now using the rooms every Monday morning so this is important. 

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What you need to bring:

• A packed lunch.
• If you have one, a laptop.
• A parent! (Very important if you are under 13).

• If you have not done so already please make sure and fill out the registration form available here. Please print, sign and return the email you receive on your first visit to the dojo.

We accept people all the time, so if you want to start just book your place and turn up on the day; the existing members help bring you up to speed.

Contact details:

Email: limerick@coderdojo.com

Twitter: @coderdojolim