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Ballinaheglish -Runa:C😊ders Float in the Roscommon Easter Parade

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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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Growing our community of family creative coding clubs

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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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OurKidsCode visit to Balgaddy Child and Family Support Centre

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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

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OurKidsCode recruiting facilitators to join our team

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OurKidsCode is seeking to recruit experienced, independent facilitators to support our growing community of family creative coding clubs across Ireland, in partnership with local County Councils.  The OurKidsCode project is focused on developing positive attitudes to creative coding in primary school families. We do this initially by offering fun workshops where parents work with their children

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OurKidsCode Clubs – Sharing Projects with the Club Network

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Ever discovered a great coding and craft project that your club has really enjoyed? Why not share it with our other clubs? Sharing projects, with our national club network, helps save time in researching club projects. Chances are, if you’ve had fun, another club will do too and hopefully they’ll share one back! The OurKidsCode

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Join the Online MeetUp – Frustration Project – Monday 19th February at 6.30pm

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Open to all OurKidsCode families, this is the next 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 the latest OurKidsCode project â€˜Frustration’.  You will design and make a buzz wire loop game using the micro: bit. Join

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New OurKidsCode Project Worksheets – Frustration and Reflexes

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Richard has been busy again creating Worksheets for 2 new projects – Frustration and Reflexes.  Go to the OurKidsCode Projects section of Run a Club to download them for your club. Richard will also be leading families in an online MeetUp to introduce and make the latest project ‘Frustration’.  You will design and make a

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