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March 1, 2012 12:05 am GMT
On Saturday afternoon a group of 30 pint size wannabe hackers gathered at the GitHub offices in San Francisco for the first CoderDojo in the United States. Irish teen sensation, James Whelton had traveled to San Francisco to take his highly successful social hacking education platform to the United States.CoderDojo began in Wheltons final year of high school when he convinced the administration to lend him a room to begin a computer club after school. What Wheton thought would be a handful of geeky friends getting together to share their coding skills surprisingly brought 40 participants to that first session in Cork, Ireland. Thus began a whirlwind of then 18 year old Wheltons next 9 months. CoderDojo quickly gained popularity in Cork and was drawing folks from across the country to meet with Wheltons group. With the help of SOSventures Bill Liao, CoderDojo quickly expanded to Dublin and Whelton found himself traveling around the country and surrounding isles starting up new dojo groups.The philosophy behind CoderDojo is one of...
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CoderDojo Partners with GitHub to Create a New Generation of Hackers
On Saturday afternoon a group of 30 pint size wannabe hackers gathered at the GitHub offices in San Francisco for the first CoderDojo in the United States. Irish teen sensation, James Whelton had traveled to San Francisco to take his highly successful social hacking education platform to the United States.CoderDojo began in Wheltons final year of high school when he convinced the administration to lend him a room to begin a computer club after school. What Wheton thought would be a handful of geeky friends getting together to share their coding skills surprisingly brought 40 participants to that first session in Cork, Ireland. Thus began a whirlwind of then 18 year old Wheltons next 9 months. CoderDojo quickly gained popularity in Cork and was drawing folks from across the country to meet with Wheltons group. With the help of SOSventures Bill Liao, CoderDojo quickly expanded to Dublin and Whelton found himself traveling around the country and surrounding isles starting up new dojo groups.The philosophy behind CoderDojo is one of...Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Um45RoEK_bg/
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