GSC Dojo Roundup 22nd June, 2015 There’s been a lot going on at the Glasgow Science Centre Dojo this year so far! Here’s a roundup of some of the highlights. Coolest Projects Joseph and Andrew headed over to Dublin to represent Scotland at CoderDojo’s Coolest Projects with an augmented map website. Joseph and Andrew at Coolest Projects in Dublin Coolest projects was bigger than ever this year, with over 500 projects being presented and 5000 people attending. Coolest Projects at the Royal Dublin Society Sonic Pi Dojo and BBC at the Quay Sonic Pi is a digital tool for creating music by writing code. You can use it to compose and perform in classical and contemporary styles ranging form Canons to Dubstep. We ran a Sonic Pi Dojo where our coders were able to hone their DJ skills… Coders working on Sonic Pi in the Lab The following weekend, as part of the BBC Music at the Quay festival, we ran some public taster-workshops on Sonic Pi in the Atrium at Glasgow Science Centre. We were lucky enough to be joined for these by Sam Aaron, creator of Sonic Pi, who demonstrated some live-coding. Sam Aaron demo-ing Sonic Pi at GSC BAFTA Young Games Designer Dojo After the success of last year’s Young Games Designer Dojo we joined forces again with BAFTA and some visiting mentors who work in the games industry to work with 50 young people on their ideas for entering the YGD Competition. Working on game ideas Starting with a session where the young people worked out their ideas on paper – and in plasticine – we followed with a coding session where they could find out more about actually programming games. Character development – clay version to digital version Book Dojo One of the interactive fiction adventures created at the Dojo As part of the “Wee Write” festival we ran a Book Dojo at the Mitchell Library where young coders created interactive fiction in the style of “Choose Your Own Adventure” stories using Twine. You can read the stories produced here. Design your own Exhibit Dojo GSC’s Director of Science, Robin Hoyle, challenged the young coders to think of an idea for a fun, interactive exhibit in the style of some of the ideas from thefuntheory.com Working on Exhibit ideas in the Lab Two very busy sessions were held producing lots of good ideas. Watch this space for further news on the outcome!