With the Christmas coming soon here are some festive coding ideas for your club or for home. micro: bit Christmas Decorations are a great idea for creating tree decorations using your micro: bits, cardboard, paint and obviously, this time of year, some glitter! You can see how to make them via this video and the […]
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For all the fans of Minecraft, Roblox and games classics such as Donkey Kong and Pacman join our Webinar on Wednesday 6th December at 8pm and see how you might design and develop your own arcade game. Our Webinar will feature Pam O’Brien who is a lecturer in Information Technology at TUS and the Ireland Ambassador
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Science week is running from the 12th – 19th November and this year’s theme focusses on ‘Human?’ – what it means to be human in today’s world, and how the decisions we make today will impact the people and world of the future. There’s lots of free STEM events and festivals, all over the country,
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We promised you the next Halloween instalment in the Bective OurkidsCode ‘Future Coders’ club and they certainly didn’t disappoint. Using two micro: bits to send a signal and perform an action – spooky music and scary sounds! The creativity to this project is just fabulous and so much fun. Bective have provided us with their
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If you weren’t able to attend our live Webinar last night we now have a recording for you to watch. We have a fresh new approach (thanks to all your feedback!) and introduce two new team members, Sarah and Mary. We share new materials and supports now available, what’s coming next and how to get new kit for
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Pet Project – Family Coding Workshop Date: Wednesday 1st November 2023 – 6pm – 8pm Open to all OurKidsCode families, this is the first in our online series of OurKidsCode family coding workshops. Code and make together and connect with our wider club community. Hosted by Richard Millwood you will make an electronic ‘pet’ that
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EU Code Week is running from the 7th of October until the 22nd of October. There’s already so many activities pinned to the Code Week map and Code Week Ireland are looking for your help to get more pins. If you’re holding an OurKidsCode MeetUp this week or doing some of your own coding activities
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The Bective OurKidsCode club have been getting into the Halloween mood with their latest spooky project. Bringing skeletons and pumpkins to life with LEDs for eyes, a micro: bit for the heart or mouth and even connecting an external speaker for that extra fright. Projects can keep evolving and in their next Meetup they’re going
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OurKidsCode Research Lead, Richard Millwood, enjoyed an exciting meeting with the kids and parents at Bective Gaa in Co. Navan this evening. Richard was there to work together with the families on a new OurKidsCode project, but was thrilled to see the different projects that the club had already made their own. They had a
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