DID YOU KNOW....  LIT are facilitating the Limerick based CoderDojo at the LIT Georges Quay Campus. CoderDojo would like to invite LIT Staff and Students who know young people who are interested in joining the club to contact them or if you want to get involved in volunteering please contact them also.

CoderDojo is a movement orientated around running free not-for-profit coding clubs and regular sessions for young people.

At a CoderDojo, young people, typically aged 7 to 17, learn how to:

• Code
• Develop Websites
• Develop Apps
• Develop Programs
• Develop Games and more

Dojos are set up, run by and taught at by volunteers and there are currently both LIT Lecturers and Hartnett Enterprise Acceleration Centre Companies volunteering and it is being lead by Hartnett Centre Companies in Limerick. There are currently about 100 young people attending CoderDojo Limerick. There are CoderDojos in Ireland, the Uk, America and Canada!

Dojos also organise tours of technology companies, bring in guest speakers to talk about their career and what they do, and organise events. In addition to learning to code, members meet like minded people, show off what they’ve been working on and so on. CoderDojo makes development and learning to code a fun, sociable, kick ass experience. CoderDojo also puts a strong emphasis on open source and free software, and has a strong network of members and volunteers globally.

Time: Every Saturday between 12pm and 3pm

Place: LIT, George’s Quay, Limerick

Contact details:

Email: coderdojo.limerick@gmail.com

Twitter: @coderdojolim

Web: http://coderdojo.com/