14th August 2017
Minutes of the CoderDojo Community Call on August 8th
Did you miss out on our latest Open Community Call, on August 8th, facilitated by the CoderDojo Foundation? Don’t worry you can listen to call and see the resources that were mentioned below! The open call was chaired by Pete O’Shea, from the CoderDojo Foundation. On the open call, we focused on the below discussion points; …
4th August 2017
Attend #EUDojo on Oct 17th @ the European Parliament, Brussels!
Hosted by Seán Kelly, MEP from 12:30pm – 2:30pm on Tuesday 17th October 2017. The EU Dojo is taking place again this year on the 17th October in the European Parliament in Brussels to celebrate EU Code Week. At the event MEP’s will be taught their first lines of code by CoderDojo youth attendees! Would you like …
28th July 2017
Community Content Release: Scratch Arcade!
Being an open source movement, CoderDojo does not define any curriculum or fixed set of learning resources. This means Dojos are free to choose–and create– materials as they see fit. Many of you are indeed creating wonderful resources for your Dojos! By sharing them with the wider community, your efforts can benefit not only Ninjas in …
21st June 2017
Ruth and Alina (ninja) from IBM Research Triangle Park CoderDojo talks about their Dojo and badging!
Please meet Ruth, she is the Champion of her local Dojo at IBM Research Triangle Park in the US! Ruth and Alina (Youth mentor) have written this blog to share their experience of their Dojo. When I entered my 30th year working for IBM, I went part-time as part of a Transition to Retirement Program. Since …
30th May 2017
Building a Network to support female Mentors and Ninjas
I’m Gemma and I’ve been a Robotics Mentor at the Silicon docks CoderDojo for about ten months now. Our Dojo is special in that girls outnumber boys on a ratio of about 60:40, so we’ve been asked to share a little bit about what we’ve learned along our journey. For me, the three most important …
17th April 2017
Lights On with Wearables Sushi
Greetings everybody! I’m Ciara, and new to the Content Team. I come from a background in Software Development and I mentor at my local Dojo where I am constantly being inspired by Ninjas of all ages. Since joining the team I have been diving into the exciting field of Wearable Technology and I am pleased …
9th January 2017
Dojo Resources: Freeing up your time
As many of you will be planning your Dojos for the coming year around now, we’ve decided to point out a few things that can make your lives a lot easier, as part of out #BackToDojo series! Here Philip, our Content Lead explains how using CoderDojo resources can free up your time: When I first …
3rd January 2017
A year in the life of a Dojo—Reviewing your Dojo
Collecting feedback After your Dojo has been running for a while everyone involved will have an opinion on how to make it better. This is an open movement, so collect them and use them! Ask for feedback, listen to everyone involved and think about how you can make things better. Those of us at the Foundation like to …
3rd January 2017
A year in the life of a Dojo—Running your Dojo
A typical Dojo Once everything’s planned, it’s time for the fun part! Promote your Dojo (we will be posting a blog on exactly how you can do this later this week!) and get people to attend. You can create ticketed Dojo events on the newly upgraded CoderDojo Community Platform so you can track who’s coming and what they want …
3rd January 2017
A year in the life of a Dojo—Planning your Dojo
Dojo topics and layout Assuming you’ve already managed to put together a team of Mentors and Volunteers to help run your Dojo, secured a venue and chosen a schedule, you need to get everyone together. Discuss, in person, over email or via Skype, a number of key questions around how you are actually going to run your Dojo sessions. …
