Coolest Projects project registration now open!

Since the first Coolest Projects showcase in 2012, thousands of young people from around the world have been celebrated and rewarded for their innovation, creativity, entrepreneurship, and technology skills at these free annual youth tech showcases. We want to continue to expand access to Coolest Projects and technology education for young people, and we are […]

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Project Showcase: Second World by Noemi, Matei and Alexandra

From Bucharest, Romania Noemi, Matei and Alexandra created a Minecraft world where players can connect to the world online to play together. The team, aged between nine and 16, had always been interested in technology. Minecraft games were described by the girls as ‘the games of [their] childhood’. They had played a lot of them […]

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From Turkey with a Travel Bursary: Selin’s Journey to Coolest Projects International

Selin Alara Ornek (age 11) travelled from Turkey to Dublin, Ireland in May 2018 with the help of a travel bursary to present her project at Coolest Projects International. Her project was called ‘IC4U – Robot Guide Dog for Blind People’ and was awarded first place in the Hardware category.   Why did you apply for […]

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Girls at Coolest Projects International 2018

Girls at Coolest Projects International 2018 Recently, during CoderDojo’s seventh birthday party, the CoderDojo team made a commitment to recruit 5000 new female volunteers into the community by 2021. And we decided to highlight some of the amazing projects made by girls who attended Coolest Projects International 2018! Today we hear about a couple of […]

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Coolest Projects International 2018: Kobe and Light Up My Helmet

Over the coming weeks we will be featuring some amazing stories from participants of this year’s Coolest Projects International. Today we’re hearing from Kobe, a Ninja from the Zandhoven Dojo in Belgium. Kobe is a 16-year-old industrial sciences student, and I interviewed him about his impressive project Light Up My Helmet, which focuses on bike […]

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