On Saturday afternoon a group of 30 pint size wannabe hackers gathered at the GitHub offices in San Francisco for the first CoderDojo in the United States. Irish teen sensation, James Whelton had ...
CEDAR RAPIDS — From 2015 to 2020, CoderDojo was a popular program for students and parents. On Saturdays, as many as a hundred students ranging from kindergarten to fifth grade would assemble to ...
This special series focuses on important community issues, innovative solutions to societal challenges, and people and non-profit groups making an impact through technology. by Taylor Soper on Sep 16, ...
Born of frustration with the slow adoption of coding in school curriculums, global software movement CoderDojo began on a Saturday morning five years ago in Cork. Here, we dig out a rare interview ...
Two of the largest educational coding organisations – CoderDojo and the Raspberry Pi Foundation – are joining forces to bring coding to the masses. The CoderDojo movement has proven to be one of ...
The story of CoderDojo is well known: Cork teenager James Whelton set up a computer club in his school, spotted a gap for kids interested in computer coding and found an angel investor, Australian ...
Raspberry Pi's credit card-sized computers have helped kickstart a coding revolution. Thanks to their low cost, major companies like Google and VMWare have distributed thousands of the DIY boards to ...
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced it’s merging with another code club charity, Dublin-based CoderDojo. The aim is to advance shared goals around furthering the march of computing education for ...
The CoderDojo voluntary initiative to teach kids programming which was launched in June 2011 in Cork, Ireland, has now been adopted by Silicon Valley. There are already Dojos at over 130 locations ...
In June 2011, the first CoderDojo was launched in the National Software Centre in Cork. Four years later and there are 675 “dojos” in 57 countries around the world, 158 in Ireland. All are run by ...
The Seattle CoderDojo group meets at Amazon’s headquarters in December. For some kids, Saturday morning is a time for cartoon-watching. However, for a few Seattle-area youngsters, those hours ...