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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We are delighted to announce that Greg Foot will be the host for Coolest Projects North America. Greg is an amazing science presenter with tens of millions of youtube views and multiple TV series with the BBC. This isn’t Greg’s first Coolest Projects either, back in April he hosted Coolest Projects UK in London. He […]
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We can help you get to Southern California to showcase your project. If you’re a kid in North America and you’re making something cool with technology, you can now apply for a stipend to help offset the cost to travel to Southern California for Coolest Projects. As you might have heard, Coolest Projects is coming to […]
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Coolest Projects International was my first major event as part of the CoderDojo Foundation team and I was both nervous and excited to begin the process and preparation for the event. With the move to a bigger space this year, Coolest Projects took on an exciting new challenge after leaving its home of 2 years […]
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Category Winners at Coolest Projects International The seventh annual Coolest Projects International 2018 which took place in Dublin on Saturday May 26th did not disappoint, with an array of Projects across six category areas; Scratch, Websites, Games and Web Games, Mobile Applications, Hardware and Evolution. An expert panel of judges awarded prizes in these six project categories as well as five […]
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Harvey, from Dublin scooped the ‘Future Maker’ prize at the seventh annual Coolest Projects International 2018 in Dublin on Saturday for his project Intelligentia. The Future Maker prize, sponsored by Liberty Global celebrates young people who use their coding and creative technology skills to bring about a positive social impact and change in their communities. “Every […]
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Learn coding in 3D at Coolest Projects with Ancient Brain Coolest Projects International is taking place in the RDS, Dublin, on the 26 May! This will be the fourth year the event will be held in the RDS and the first year where the event will be held in the world leading Simmonscourt complex. This year […]
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Coolest Projects Sofia 2018 As CoderDojo and the Coolest Projects movement grows in popularity, there have also been several exciting regional events over the past number of weeks, including Coolest Projects UK, Coolest Projects Belgium and last weekend, Coolest Projects Sofia! An unforgettable regional event I was very lucky to have the opportunity to […]
On Saturday 28 April we brought together young digital creators from the UK Raspberry Pi community for the first-ever Coolest Projects UK. Coolest Projects started in Dublin seven years ago as an event where Ninjas can showcase the creative projects they had been making throughout the year. Earlier this year we opened up all Coolest […]
Stephen Howell is the Academic Program Manager for Microsoft Ireland. In this role he engages lecturers and students of all disciplines and levels with tech talks and curriculum advice. Stephen is a passionate advocate of CoderDojo and Computational Thinking both in and outside the classroom. He developed Kinect 2 Scratch and is a PhD candidate in […]
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