Bored Kids?

Written by: Kristin Goedert   Keep them busy this summer with fun STEM activities! We are fortunate to live in an area where STEM opportunities abound. Here are a few ideas to stay busy this summer.  Bay Area Discovery Museum (Sausalito) The Bay Area Discovery Museum features seven exhibition spaces and more than six daily…

Minecraft Modding Still Popular

Minecraft Modding Resources Despite being bought by Microsoft, Minecraft’s popularity is still strong and interest in modifying or “modding” this game still high.  Modding involves either making small changes to the original source code of Minecraft on the client or player side (some call this “jar hacking”) or creating small programs that are added to it…

Our First TriV Pizza Party!

No Electronics, Just All You Can Eat Pizza And Good Company Aug. 12, 2015: The second Wednesday of each month is usually our session at Veeva Systems in Pleasanton.  Our host is moving into a new building this month, so in lieu of our usual session, we organized a pizza party instead! We had a…

CodeCombat Big Hit @TriV

TriV CodeCombat Warriors   Our ninjas jumped right in to the CodeCombat game at our monthly session last night on November 5th.  CodeCombat is a self-guided online game where kids (and adults) can learn to program while having fun battling ogres and other villans.  There are several languages to choose from: Javascript, Python, Clojure, IO,…

Check Out Our Featured Projects

Our Featured Projects page showcases a few of our member Scratch projects and provides links to our TriValley CoderDojo Scratch Studio.  Members can share their creations with friends and family and they can create along with you using the links to the games that were presented.  We’re proud of what our young programmers have created!…