DojoMór 2020 is a nationwide, online coding fun-day for young people aged 7 – 17. Hosted virtually by a number of providers, in WIT, it is being coordinated by CALMAST, WIT’s STEM engagement centre. This virtual event, starts at 10am on Saturday, 24 October and runs until 2pm.
Workshops
The workshops will deliver fun coding activities like programming a micro-chip, coding a virtual robot, building a software app, making music, building a website, and creating games. DojoMór believes that an understanding of programming is increasingly important in the modern world and that it’s easier to learn these skills early if there is an opportunity to do so.
Workshops include:
- Beginners Scratch: Scratch is a free programming language and online community where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations.
- Micro: bit: The Micro: bit is an open-source hardware ARM-based embedded system designed by the BBC for use in computer education.
- Thunkable: Thunkable enables anyone to create beautiful and powerful mobile apps. On Thunkable, every app project you create works on both Android and iOS devices.
- HTML: Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser.
- VEX Robotics VR: VEXcode VR lets you code a virtual robot using a block-based coding environment powered by Scratch Blocks.
- Lightbot: Lightbot is an educational video game for learning software programming concepts.
- 3D Modelling with Blender: 3D Modelling allows for a huge amount of creativity and imagination without having to learn any code. This event will take you through how to create your own duck in Blender and teach you the tools you will need to go on and create bigger projects. From what you learn during the event you will be able to enter our competition.
- Music with Soundtrap: During our music technology event, you will learn to make music in an easy and fun way. We will use the SoundTrap website, which is an online tool for making music, to create our music. It is easy to use and you don’t need to have any background of music. In addition, we will learn how to record and edit our voice and mix it with our music. Audacity, a free audio tool, will be employed to record and edit your voice. In summary, if you like music that of course, you like, this event is for you. From what you learn during the event you will be able to enter our competition.
The event is supported by Cork Institute of Technology, Institute of Technology Tralee, Calmast Waterford Institute of Technology, Maynooth University, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Letterkenny Institute of Technology, Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art Design and Technology, Offaly County Council and is funded by the Higher Education Authority of Ireland.
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