Encouraging and mentoring kids to start coding and to enjoy making digital things

Joined April 2013
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CoderDojo Porirua retweeted
You can see how the skies above Stonehenge affect the iconic stones via a web browser thanks to a Raspberry Pi computer: raspberrypi.org/blog/view-st…

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When you finish a PhD in computer science, they take you to a special room and explain that you must never use recursion in real life. Its only purpose is to make programming hard for undergrads.
26 Sep 2019
When you finish a PhD in computer science, they take you to a special room and explain that you must never use recursion in real life. Its only purpose is to make programming hard for undergrads. 😂
Don't forget - our next session is this Saturday at #PoriruaCollege! Register for free at cdr.nz/register #Porirua😀

Great fun at our first session over the weekend, programming with @scratch, @MITAppInventor, and hacking some hardware! Thanks to all that came along.
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Activities this week include taking the Scratch Asteroids project we started last time and moving it to JavaScript with the help of one of @thecodingtrain awesome tutorials and hosting it on @glitch. Please share with any one you think may be interested in coming along! :-)
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Great fun at our first session over the weekend, programming with @scratch, @MITAppInventor, and hacking some hardware! Thanks to all that came along.
Wo hoo! We're restarting sessions tomorrow (Saturday 3 August) at #PoriruaCollege! Register for free at cdr.nz/register :-) #Porirua😀
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CoderDojo Porirua retweeted
Final week to register your Year 12-13 students for our Tech Day for Girls event on Friday 5 July! techdayforgirls19.lilregie.c…

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CoderDojo Porirua retweeted
Had a group of high school girls in the @Xero office today for #Shadowtech19 - gave them tour of the office, they ‘speed’ met some of the amazing women who work in the tech teams - and we wrapped it up with some coding #womenintech
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Made my day to read this tweet. Love learning and engaged teachers. x.com/emmerw/status/93380189…

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The #ARSandbox getting calibrated last night - first run with sand in this morning with 100 kids at Adventure School :-) x.com/leighghunt/status/9281…

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Ooops - meant to post this to @Porirua_City!
CoderDojo Porirua retweeted
New post! Make your own game with @CoderDojo's new book: raspberrypi.org/blog/coderdo…
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Check it out - another event by the awesome team at @nodebots_nz! x.com/kaiwhata/status/904530…

4 Sep 2017
Stoked for the next @nodebots_nz event on 16th Sept at @1stAssembly ti.to/nodebots-new-zealand/n…
CoderDojo Porirua retweeted
Did you know: these images - the highest ever taken from an amateur balloon - were taken by a Raspberry Pi! x.com/daveake/status/8967669…

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Woohoo - first session of term tomorrow - who wants to help us build an Augmented Reality Sandbox?! m.facebook.com/CoderDojoPori…
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CoderDojo Porirua retweeted
Pioneers, ROLL OUT! #MakeYourIdeas
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