hack miramar logoThis guest post is from ex-‘ista Mike, so it may be some­thing you’ve seen else­where on the inter­net. Sor­ry! 
Fol­low­ing on from the suc­cess­ful Hack Mira­mar ‘trans­port event’ the team have teamed up with Welling­ton Mak­er­space Trust and are chuffed to announce free pro­gram­ming work­shops for all ages on Decem­ber 13th at Scots Col­lege (1 Monor­gan Rd, Strath­more Park).
These ses­sions will run from 10am until 4pm on Sat­ur­day the 13th of Decem­ber at the Cen­tre for Per­form­ing Arts Cen­tre (CPAC) at Scots Col­lege. Atten­dees can drop in dur­ing the day to take part in ses­sions that will start each hour on the hour.
The work­shops will be based around the glob­al ‘Hour of Code’ for­mat which pro­vides an easy intro­duc­tion to com­put­er pro­gram­ming for any­one want­i­ng to learn a lit­tle about how com­put­ers work. In addi­tion to learn­ing some sim­ple pro­gram­ming con­cepts par­tic­i­pants will also have a chance to do exer­cis­es with Rasp­ber­ry Pi, Arduino and Makey Makey devices.The event is part of a series of inter­na­tion­al events being put on around the globe as part of Com­put­er Sci­ence Edu­ca­tion Week.
“Tech­nol­o­gy is chang­ing rapid­ly and we want to make sure Welling­to­ni­ans of all ages are bet­ter pre­pared to be not just con­sumers of tech­nol­o­gy but cre­ators as well” said Ben Wilde, Hack Mira­mar co-organ­is­er.
The ses­sions are open to the pub­lic and to all ages from 6+, the only pre­req­ui­site is curios­i­ty and a desire to learn some­thing new.
“We need more kids excit­ed about the idea of mak­ing smart things.”, said Lee Ben­nett, founder of the Welling­ton Mak­er­space Trust “we need more Kiwi inno­va­tors and this is a great way to get them start­ed.”
The event is being made pos­si­ble by the gen­er­ous sup­port of Scots Col­lege who have pro­vid­ed the use of the Graph­ics and Tech­nol­o­gy facil­i­ties housed with­in the school’s Cre­ative and Per­form­ing and Arts Cen­tre (CPAC).
“As a col­lege we are com­mit­ted to pro­vid­ing world class edu­ca­tion for our stu­dents includ­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties to learn about tech­nolo­gies that will shape our future” said Graeme Yule, Head­mas­ter of Scots Col­lege “We’re very hap­py to sup­port this wider com­mu­ni­ty ini­tia­tive.”
More infor­ma­tion can be found at www.hackmiramar.org/hour-of-code