CoderDojo Athenry will be returning on Saturday 23 Sept 2023 with an information session. Our first normal session will be the following Saturday, 30 Sept 2023.

The information session will be a short session, running from 12-1pm. All subsequent sessions will be two hours in duration, from 12-2pm.

If you have not attended CoderDojo Athenry before, please do your best to attend the information session. For all others it is optional.

We have four groups running this year:

EXPLORERS: for young kids (must know how to read) Learn Scratch! Program your own interactive stories, games, and animations. Scratch helps kids to learn to think creatively and reason systematically.

ADVANCERS: for kids ready to move on from Explorers, features more advanced projects in Scratch and some other technologies.

BODGERS: for kids who have done Scratch and want to move on to a more advanced coding language. We’ll use Python to create our own animations and games similar those being created in both Scratch groups. This year we may also look at using Python to control some electronic hardware.

CREATORS: an introduction to game design and programming using the Unity Game Engine and Blender 3D modelling software.

Ninjas from 7 to 17 are welcome to join us. Children aged 12 and under must be accompanied by a parent/guardian who stays in the same room as them for the full session.

We look forward to seeing you all!