On Tuesday 23rd February students who were selected for entry to the silver stage of the TICE award for Computer Science visited Campus North, an organisation dedicated to supporting technology startups and supporting the North East tech community. Here Phil Jeffes, Software Developer at Reframed.tv taught students how to program a Raspberry Pi using the programming language Python. Students used the language to interact with ultrasonic range sensors and LED’s, they also used Python to create a computer game using Pygame and to build a computer generated ‘world’ in minecraft. Students had a fantastic day speaking to various industry professionals about working in ‘tech’, their behavior and enthusiasm was exemplary.
Campus North run various coding workshops including CoderDojo, a code club for young programmers aged 5-17, on the 4th Saturday of every month. For more information visit http://coderdojonortheast.org.uk/our-clubs/campus-north/
