27th January 2015
CoderDojo Ireland Press – January 2015
Teaching Tech at CoderDojo
27th January – CoderDojo Tramore, Waterford
A local CoderDojo club celebrated its first birthday at the weekend.
The CoderDojo movement is run by volunteer mentors and parents, and leading tech companies across the world have backed plans to expand CoderDojo clubs for children who want to learn computing coding.
There are more than 500 Dojos or clubs in more than 48 countries, reaching 25,000 children.
In Ireland, there are 120 centres, with more than 6,000 young people attending the clubs on a weekly basis.