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Gaming for a Greener World

Going Green at CoderDojo Moray
Going Green at CoderDojo Moray

On Saturday CoderDojo Moray held an all ages computing event as part of the 2016 Moray Science Festival's Families Day. The theme of the day was Going Green.

Four of CoderDojo Moray's regular members came along to help festival visitors through the range of Going Green activities. In addition, three adult volunteers from the local Maker-Space, T- Exchange, came to share their knowledge.

Going Green at CoderDojo Moray
Going Green at CoderDojo Moray
 

We created a small custom-made website for the event linked to a range of online age-graded Ecological/Scientific online games. Many of the visitors, young and old alike wanted to find out about Scratch and how to create their own games/animations. Several intended to download it themselves when they got home along with support materials from Scratch.

They could also make stop-motion games using webcams on the CoderDojo set of recycled computers. Boxes of Lego and recycled cardboard/paper provided the materials alongside plastic figures of dragons etc…..

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