Fwd: [CoderDojo-Org] CoderDojo Community News - Festive Projects, New Community Platform, DojoCon 2015 and more!

[James Crook]

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From: Peter O'Shea <pe...@coderdojo.org>
Date: 19 December 2014 at 18:45
Subject: [CoderDojo-Org] CoderDojo Community News - Festive Projects, New Community Platform, DojoCon 2015 and more!
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In this months newsletter we've got festive projects, resources, competitions, annual survey results and more!

Happy Holidays,

Pete

CoderDojo Community News -  Festive Projects, New Community Platform, DojoCon 2015 & more! View this email in your browser Seasons Greetings from the CoderDojo Foundation! It’s been an exciting Q4 for the CoderDojo Foundation, you can read all about it in our Q4 report. We’ve published the results of the CoderDojo Community Survey and have announced the new CoderDojo Community Platform project. The list of verified Dojos has grown to 560+ registered Dojos in 56 countries across the globe! We would like to welcome all new Dojos to the CoderDojo Community. Projects for the Festive Season! Make it snow on your web page with Snowjo! Snowjo is an awesome winter themed HTML project for coding Ninjas. When the keyword "snow" is entered, snow starts to fall on the page!!   Snowjo Details Ninjas, claim your Autodesk 3D Design Badges! Your Ninjas can claim their Digital Badges, awarded for creating 3D Design projects with Autodesk 3D challenges.   Claim your Badge!   Community Events Are you ready for the MATHletes Challenge? Calling Irish students, take the MATHletes challenge! It's a maths tournament based on the Khan Academy. The top scorers will advance to the playoffs, where over €20,000 in prizes can be won!   Join the challenge!   Interested in hosting DojoCon 2015!? Following on the success of DojoCon 2014, we are looking for Dojos to express their interest in hosting the CoderDojo conference in 2015!   I'm Interested in hosting DojoCon 2015!   Register now for Coolest Projects 2015! At the Coolest Projects, CoderDojo Ninjas showcase the projects they've built using the skills & knowledge learned from attending CoderDojo.    Register today   Resources for your Dojo! Build websites within BlueMix using node-js! IBM have developed courses to teach coding Ninjas to build their own websites within BlueMix using node-js! This is a great way for young coders to progress from Scratch!   Build a website with BlueMix! Build apps with front end code with Syncano The awesome folks at Syncano are providing free access to their software for all Dojos. Syncano is a scalable backend that allows developers (of all ages) to build apps with only front-end code!   Build apps with Syncano!   Competition time! Win a Mozilla - Flame, Firefox OS Developer Phone! Thanks to our friends at the Mozilla Foundation, we are delighted to announce that we have some Mozilla - Flame FireFox OS Developer Phones to give to young people in Dojos around the world! All you have to do is create and submit a phone app using..   Register today CoderDojo Community Updates Coding: The Beginners Guide for Parents CoderDojo Foundation CEO, Mary Moloney gives her insights on youth participation in technology and coding.   Read the article! Championing a Dojo at Salesforce Dublin Read, Coderdojo Champion, Cyril Treacy’s diary and learn about how he started his Dojo at the Salesforce offices in Dublin!   Read the article!   Cool tools for Coding Ninjas Learning Python with PyCharm! Specially designed for all programmers with little or no previous coding experience who want to learn programming with Python easily & effectively. PyCharm Educational Edition is completely Free and Open Source! It's perfect for Coding Ninjas to get started with Python!   Get PyCharm! We are always looking for news from your Dojo! If you have content you’d like to share with the community, send us a mail: in...@coderdojo.org Happy Christmas, The CoderDojo Foundation Team. Tweet Share +1 Forward to Friend Copyright © 2014 The CoderDojo Foundation, All rights reserved. You signed up to this mailing list from the website http://coderdojo.com Our mailing address is: The CoderDojo Foundation Dogpatch Labs 35 Barrow Street Dublin 4, Ireland Add us to your address book unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences

See below for some cool opportunities for your Dojo!

• Coolest Projects 2015 open for registration
• Remote Mentoring with IBM
  
• Interested in hosting DojoCon 2015?
• CoderDojo Community Platform, call for expressions of interest!
• Codestarter now providing Laptops for CoderDojo Youth internationally!

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