Join us for an OurKidsCode Family Coding Taster Workshop or a 4-Day Summer Camp in your local county this summer! A fun and engaging way for parents and kids to explore STEM and coding together! Activities are aimed at ages 7-12, but all children are welcome. Taster – experience OurKidsCode in this 2 hour workshop. Make […]
Summer Camps and Workshops 2024 (please note these activities have ended) Read More »
We had an absolute blast over the past few days participating in the 2024 Dream Space Showcase! Congratulations to all the clubs that travelled to Dublin to present their amazing projects. Your creativity and innovation in addressing the UN sustainability goals truly blew us away. Experiencing Microsoft’s offices was incredibly inspiring. Keynote speakers shared their
OurKidsCode clubs attend 2024 Dream Space Showcase! Read More »
OurKidsCode was delighted to take part in the Cork Carnival of Science in Fitzgerald Park, Cork City on 8 & 9 June, a highlight of the year for Cork families. Hundreds of families visited our booth and played with Pet, Frustration and Rock-Paper-Scissors wristbands while hearing all about OurKidsCode clubs from Richard Millwood and Cork
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Congratulations to Bective Future Coders in Meath on being chosen as a finalist in the Digital Education category of the .ie Digital Town Awards 2024. Bective Future Coders is a family coding club formed out of the OurKidsCode initiative supported by Meath County Council, the Department of Rural & Community Development, Science Foundation Ireland and
Bective Future Coders – Finalist in .ie Digital Town Awards 2024. Read More »
OurKidsCode club in Ballinaheglish -Runa:C😊ders entered the Roscommon Easter parade with their ‘mad scientist’ themed coding Float. Including rockets, circuit boards and their own Scratch cats! Even more amazing this was all done in a week – such community spirit and excitement- and they came runners up in the parade! You’re amazing – well done
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Watch the online chat with Richard and Sarah (OurKidsCode) and our clubs where we chat about ideas for running and organising clubs, choosing project ideas and how clubs can get involved with Microsoft Dream Space Showcase. Listen to what has worked for other clubs and pick up some useful ideas for your club.
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Join us for a FREE Scratch online coding workshop – The Easter Maze! Come to the Easter chick’s rescue by guiding him safely through the maze to reach the Easter Egg, but make sure not to touch the walls of the maze or you’ll end up right back at your starting point! Design and create
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Our network of family creative coding clubs that are safe, inclusive and fun is growing every week across Ireland. Two clubs in Meath began their journey, last month, to establish an OurKidsCode family coding club in their rural community. Drumree GAA 6 Families, from the surrounding area, joined an OurKidsCode Facilitator for Workshops using our
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This is the coders of the Ballindangan OurKidsCode Club. We started out in September 2023 after a fantastic introduction from Mary- to date we have really only been finding our feet, or ‘micro: bits’ initially for the first few months and getting to know the various websites and each other. We met in January 2024,
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On March 1st, Dr. Grace Lawlor, Let’s Get Digital Project Worker in South Dublin County Partnership, invited Mary O’Mahony, OurKidsCode Training Coordinator, to deliver facilitator training to a group of teachers from St. Bernadette’s Senior National School, Quarryvale, and staff from South Dublin County Partnership as part of a new initiative to bring OurKidsCode to
OurKidsCode visit to Balgaddy Child and Family Support Centre Read More »
