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MORE THAN 10,000 people are expected to descend on the RDS in Dublin today to check out the work of some of Ireland’s youngest tech innovators.
The CoderDojo Coolest Projects event features 800 participants showcasing their projects, which include a range of gadgets, robots, blogs, games and websites.
The event is now in its fifth year, and organisers reckoned that it is the biggest technology and innovation event taking place in Ireland this year.
CoderDojo got underway back in 2011 at a school in Cork when founder James Whelton, a student himself at the time, set up a computer club following interest from younger students.
Over the past five years the clubs have gone international, and there are now more than 870 CoderDojos in 63 countries.
What will be on show?
Typically those that attend the clubs are aged between 7 and 17, but the youngest participant at this year’s event will be five-year-old Tiernan Mangan from Mayo who has designed a ninja slayer game involving Star Wars-style light sabres.
Niamh Scanlon, the 13-year-old European Digital Girl of the Year, will be showcasing her Auto-Journalist app, a piece of software that allows journalists to send a list of questions to interviewees who can record their answers and send them back through the app.
An app that will be on show that could change the future of personal safety is Jake O’Toole’s RedAlert, which shares a person’s location with trusted contacts that lets them know where you are if you’re feeling unsafe.
“The idea came from my own personal experience with walking home alone in the dark,” Jake said.
Where I live there is street lighting in most parts but there are a lot of places that don’t. It would make me feel much safer knowing that a person is able to see where I’m going if I’m feeling unsafe.
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AA have raised their fart-alert level to ‘brown’. Please people, let’s be careful out there.
Swear they were going into the Amazon, South Dublin petals
As regards the farts “better out than in”. I would rather someone fart than someone shitting themselves. Enjoy the picnic people keep it real or fake whatever way you normally act.
It doesn’t have to be one or the other, you can actually just hold in a fart for a while without sh*tting yourself as a consequence. Women have been doing it successfully for generations
I can’t wait for it, last hurrah of the festival season. Bye bye Summer, you were somewhat sound this year ☀️
Perhaps this article should be read in conjunction with the earlier article on STI’s and childbearing. The failure rate for contraception is about four times higher for teenagers than for the rest of the population. Teenagers are just as good and as careful at using contraceptives as they are at tidying their bedrooms.
The fact that those promoting contraceptives, are the same people promoting abortion, is just coincidental.
The proof of problems is in the earlier article, which for some reason had no EP in the title. There is no such thing as a surprise pregnancy, having sex makes babies. Having casual sex leads to SDI’s and babies. There is no guaranteed “protection”.
Enjoy the fun of the fair.
Paddy teenager’s are banned from EP, it’s 18 and upwards and usually a pretty good crowd too none of the usual clientèle of that awful oxygen so in fairness I don’t think it’s good to preach to adults since I think they have a fair idea of what to do :)
Wynner, there’s 8,000 extra people on top of last years attendance going this year. I’m sure some of the Oxygen heads will be there.
Well ya know it’s going to piss rain so don’t drop your electric picnic x
I’m going, I reckon ill survive without an SPF 20+
Thanks all the same
Sunburn and dehydration? I’d say hypothermia and pneumonia might be more likely! As for protection, I might suggest a good strong umbrella and a raincoat.
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