CoderDojo coding club back in Bray

CoderDojo sessions in Bray will be resuming on Saturday, September 15.

The coding sessions are free of charge and take place on Saturday afternoons during the school term. Parents stay with the young people, and the groups are led by volunteers.

The CoderDojo organisation started in 2011 in Cork, based on open-source principles, has now become a worldwide entity with links to other coding organisations.

The Bray CoderDojo was founded in 2012 and is one of the largest coding clubs in Ireland where the students, aged seven to 17, work with a group of technical mentors to learn more about the technologies we use every day.

To date over 2,500 students have attended the sessions and some of them have become award-winning coders.

CoderDojo Bray is free of charge because of the time and effort donated free by all of our volunteers and mentors, financial donations from supporters and provision of a venue by Presentation College Bray. ‘CoderDojo Bray would not happen without this generous and continued support,’ said a spokeswoman.

She said that the sessions are a fun, engaging way to make new friends who share an interest in computing and technology, learn new things, explore and learn how to create program code.

In CoderDojo, students use Scratch to use pre-designed code blocks to program their own interactive stories, games and animations.

It allows a student to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.

They also learn HTML and CSS App Inventor. To register for CoderDojo, go to coderdojobray.com.