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Warwick students and staff take part in first European Scratch conference

Panel Session at Scratch 2013The first European Scratch conference took place in Barcelona at the end of July (27-29 July) bringing together educators, researchers and developers from the worldwide Scratch community to discuss and share experiences and knowledge. Margaret Low, Principal Teaching Fellow at WMG, has been part of the Organising Committee and Programme Committee for the conference and a number of staff and students from the University of Warwick led sessions across the days.

At the European conference, students from the University of Warwick, undertook a live demonstration of the power of Scratch. Andrew Sula, Sam Edwards and Tom Preece, student leaders of the University of Warwick’s Technology Volunteers project (part of Warwick Volunteers), built a dance mat and developed a game, all within five minutes, live on stage. Dr Claire Rocks from Computer Science ran a session 'The Robot Garden', a workshop where participants can program their own robot gardeners.

Mon 05 Aug 2013, 10:01 | Tags: Margaret Low Partnerships Public engagement Research

Warwick volunteers share computer skills

Warwick VolunteersVolunteers from the University of Warwick have been sharing their computer programming skills with parents, teenagers and younger children in Coventry.

Students and staff organised a drop in session at BBC Coventry and Warwickshire's Open Centre in Priory Place during half-term break where anyone could have a go at creating their own computer game or animation. There was also help at hand for anyone who wanted to know a little bit more about how computers work.

Wed 02 Mar 2011, 15:35 | Tags: Margaret Low Public engagement

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