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…
On May 27, TriValley Coder Dojo held our first Scratch Hackathon! Written by: Kristin Goedert Photos: Kristin Goedert TriV wanted to offer our youth members the experience of participating in a Hackathon event, and all of the learning opportunities that surround a hackathon. Although hackathons are typically only available to teens and adults…
Project: Whac-A-Mole May 17, 2017 was our last practice hackathon session before the main event scheduled for next Saturday, May 27th. The project assignment for this session was to create a game based on the popular Whac-A-Mole arcade game of the mid 1970’s. In the game, the moles pop out of their holes at random…
Written by: Kristin Goedert Photos & Graphics courtesy of the Maker Faire When: May 19, May 20, & May 21, 2017 Where: San Mateo County Event Center, 1346 Saratoga Drive, San Mateo, CA 94403 Learn More: http://makerfaire.com/bay-area/ Where can you see a 12-ton 16-foot-tall robot, ride a Big Ant, check out a Life-Size Mousetrap, try a tall bike and…
Written by: Kristin Goedert; Photos: Kristin Goedert On Thursday May 4, 2017, TriV CoderDojo will participate in a very special event- East Bay Gives. East Bay Gives is a 24-hour online giving day that only happens once a year, supporting the nonprofit groups who make our region a special place to live, work and thrive.…
Code Monkey Mentor Extraordinaire Written by: Jocelyn Combs and Valerie Freitas; Photo credit: Jocelyn Combs Josephine started attending TriValley CoderDojo meetings last summer. She was looking for coding classes for her sons, because they enjoyed computer games so much, but her family found the club instead, and since then they have never looked back. Although Josephine is…
Volunteers Honored for Contributions Written by: Jocelyn Combs and Valerie Freitas Photo Credits: Jocelyn Combs, Chika Sekimoto, and Munish Matai In 2013, Jamie Heston, a Bay Area native and Hayward resident, was looking for a way for her two home-schooled sons, Ashton and Kaleb, to learn programming. She tried to teach them herself with discs…
Two Teens Win First Place for Best Game CONGRATULATIONS to 13 year old Ethan and 14 year old Pulkit on their First Place Win for Best Game at CodeDay San Francisco this past weekend! We’re very proud of their achievement! They built their addictively engaging mobile game in Unity. If you’re up to the challenge, you…
A National US Apps Challenge This year marks the first annual Congressional Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Academic Competition, the “House Student App Challenge.” This new challenge is designed to engage student’s creativity and encourage their participation in STEM education fields. Established by Members of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2013, this challenge…
Learn to design in SolidWorks, Print a 3D Prototype, and Meet other kid-engineers in the making! Cost: The kids’ camps are free! Multiple dates, sign up here. Start/End Time: 9am-3pm Lunch: 12-1pm–Please bring your own sack lunch Age group: 10-18yrs GoEngineer – Santa Clara 3350 Scott Blvd. Bldg 44 Santa Clara, CA 95054 Enrolled Students Receive: …
