Coding Fun Factory 3rd April, 2014 Computing at School Coding Fun Factory On Saturday 22nd March 2014 over a hundred young people attended a Computing at School Coding Fun Factory. The all-day event took place as part of the Moray College Science Festival Families Day. The children had the opportunity to learn to code using the free MIT program “Scratch”. The young people were soon adapting the code creating their own animations and other ideas. They were introduced to the resources on the Scratch website including tutorials, help forums, games and animations. One of the event’s young volunteer helpers, Kieran McCulley set up and ably demonstrated the innovative mini- computer, the Raspberry Pi while his brother, Calum shared his own Scratch coding expertise. BSc Computing student and STEM Ambassador Jill McGhee also came along to lend her welcome support to the day. The event was conceived and run by CAS hub leader and STEM Ambassador, Claire Griffiths. There was enthusiastic interest in a new code club for 9-11 years, which will start in the next couple of months to join the existing Coderdojo Moray for 12-17 year olds. Claire Griffiths Moray CoderDojo Mentor