dlr Teen Entrepreneur STEM Camp

Last Thursday, our 2018 STEM Camp got off to a lively and productive start with 60 TY students learning about Scratch, Arduino, and coding. The sessions, led by Dr. Jake Rowan Byrne, started with an introduction to the concepts of business and entrepreneurial skills, creative thinking and teamwork. He then took the students through computing, coding and how technology is part of everyday life (they even learned how washing machines work!) and gave them the task of creating a sprite animation through Scratch, which proved to be fun and absorbing. We asked the students to give their impression of week 1 and here is some of their feedback. Alex, Ella & Emer enjoyed learning how to use Scratch and mBlock, and felt their biggest achievement was making the LED light.  Teamwork, communication and setting out accurate instructions was a big part of the learning curve for all the teams. Kate, Cian & Kate enjoyed working as a team, learning how to

Starting tomorrow! dlr Teen Entrepreneur STEM Camp 2018   Kindly supported by Science Foundation Ireland 60 TY students from 15 schools in the county will an opportunity to learn coding, electronics and business development over 8 weeks in dlr LexIcon. The students will have workshops in using Rasperry Pi's and Arduino kits for building new innovative business products and prototypes. The RASPBERRY PIis a credit card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard, its like a little PC which can be used for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word processing and games. It also plays high definition video. The design is based around a Broadcom BCM2835 SoC, which includes an ARM1176JZF-S 700MHz processor, VideoCore IV GPU, and 512Mbytes of RAM. The design does not include a built in hard disk or solid state drive, instead relying on a microSD card for booting and long term storage. This board is intended to run Linux kernel based operat