TechnoCamps

Today I took part in the Technocamps conference in the Liberty Stadium, it was called: Computer Science Teachers Conference in collaboration with Technocamps 'Creating a Digital Future'- The transition to Key Stage 3.

Technocamps provides free workshops to give you the chance to learn new skills about the world of Computer Science and STEM. It's a project that provides free workshops to young people on programming, robotics, game design, app development and much more and about getting young people (11-19 years) in Wales excited about Computer Science and STEM and challenging them to think about the world around them in a different way.

Whilst there I observed two workshops, the first was about the science or higher order thinking behind card tricks, and how you can train yourself (with specific rules) to always know the answer to the tricks. The second was CoderDojo which was a computer coding group, where you had to accomplish different levels of coding to finish the game. I enjoyed the card tricks the most as it was fun and easy to understand, I didn't enjoy Coderdojo as much because I found it difficult to understand as, to me, it was a complicated process.

Overall, I enjoyed the workshops/observations but there was too many talks/speeches.