End of Year Party – Acknowledgements

We had a great end-of-year party today. It’s our favourite tradition and a great way to celebrate our year’s achievements.

We demoed what each group had been working on, awarded badges and had a fun quiz. Then we feasted. Everyone’s favourite part is the food. Supermac’s & Papa John’s Athenry did a super job there, as they always do!

We invited donations today. We don’t like to do that too often, but everyone was incredibly generous. We received enough to completely cover the cost of the party and the badges with a little left over. Our most sincere thank you!

I’d like to acknowledge and thank others who have helped us this year. The acting-principle and staff of Clarin College ensure we have a venue, The University of Galway’s School of Computer Science provided us with much-needed financial grant. Medlife kindly donated two laptops which we can use in our laptop loaner program.

Finally, thank you to the hard-working and dedicated volunteer mentors who turn up week after week and keep this incredible organisation going.

We will be returning in the autumn. Dates will be announced in late-Aug/early-Sept, once we know them.

I wish everyone a fantastic summer!

End of Year Party

Hi folks, here are some photos from our end-of-year party today and a photo of some ninjas, some mentors and some Tesco members of staff at Tesco Athenry marking the end of our Community Fund collection period. Thanks to Tesco Ireland and to everyone who dropped a blue token in the box for us!

Hope to see you all next year!

Explorers Session 2 2022

Huge crowd again on Saturday, thank you to all 73 Ninjas you turned to my group, hope you enjoyed it.

Here are the full notes from this session. Remember to look out on our website or Facebook page or check your email during the week as we will be letting you know whether the Coderdojo will be running this coming week, the 9th April.

Explorers Session 1 2022

So great to back in person again. It was great to see such a big crowd.

I am attaching the full notes from yesterdays game here

I have also put the full Scratch Game on the Scratch Website

On the last page of the notes you will see the log in details for the Explorers Group to access the game.

Looking forward to seeing you all next week.

Martha, Ruaidhrí and Dylan

CoderDojo Athenry Information Session 07-Nov-2020

Hello again everyone.

It was great to speak to you all last Saturday.

Here are some notes with information all about CoderDojo Athenry in PDF form.

Here’s a quick recap of everyone’s notes;

Martha told us all about the Explorers group, you can contact Martha at Martha@coderdojoathenry.onmicrosoft.com and you can find her slides here.

Oliver spoke about the Advancers group and you can contact Oliver at Oliver@coderdojoathenry.onmicrosoft.com

I talked about the Bodgers group, you contact me at Declan@coderdojoathenry.onmicrosoft.com and you can read all about the Bodgers group here.

Kieran then spoke about the Modellers group. Here is his presentation.

Kieran can be contacted at Kieran@coderdojoathenry.onmicrosoft.com.

Finally Michael spoke about the Hacker Group which will be starting in the new year. Here are his slides

Mike’s email is, yes you guessed it is, Mike@coderdojoathenry.onmicrosoft.com

We will be posting information for our first session next Saturday in the next day or two, so keep an eye out for that.

Looking forward to seeing you all again next Saturday.

Declan and the CoderDojo Athenry Mentors

Online Explorers Session

Hi there everyone, I hope you are all keeping safe.

We are hoping to resume Coderdojo Athenry some time in November. For anybody who isn’t familiar with the Explorers group, here is a short video explaining what we do each week.

Explorers Video

Here is a link to a form to show your interested in participating.

Hope to to you all (virtually soon)

Stay safe, wear a mask and wash your hands!

Martha