Friday, 24 August 2012
Sailboat Sally
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Wednesday, 15 August 2012
Young Rewired State 2012 - From an outsider
So this weekend I attended an event that I've heard about for years. See my partner and his son have been involved with yrs for years they always come back full of ideas and stories. I was curious I will admit but I'm not a coder in fact coding frustrates the heck out of me, as my brain loves to create but hates to learn. This year however it was my partners son's last year as a participant so I thought I would love to see him present his idea's live instead of over the net so I floated the idea that I'd be interested in going. Five seconds later I was signed up and going, this is the first sign of how passionate yrs people are, they want more people involved.
So most of the week I couldn't go, but Thursday I went along to the centre that they were both signed up for. See yrs is a whole UK thing not just a London thing which thrills me no end (I get annoyed when events just go to London and say a UK tour) for the first 4 days of the week it's at their local centre, where they meet other under 18's and they put together an app or website using at least open piece of open data. Some have been coders for a while but some have never coded in their lives now it's those kids that amazed me that Thursday as they showed me what they had done, that was the moment I caught the passion of yrs.
The weekend, well it was amazing you had some older kids that had teamed up with the younger ones to create things that were out of this world but not in every case were the older ones the coders. A team that stood out in the early round were from BMC in London. There stood two older lads and two younger lads (seven and eight if I remember correctly) and instantly the microphone was handed to the younger lads, see they were the ones who helped the older ones produce their idea and a big shout out to Iain, that lad is amazing and I can't wait to see what he does next year, he has the confidence of ten people and is using it constructively, he is on my one to watch list.
So there are so many blogs and videos out there with a list of the winners This being one so I won't list them I want to jump ahead to Sunday morning, where I'm sitting in a room with two lads from Brighton, both are 12 and both are quizzing me on why I'm there and what I've done this week to help. I have been asked less questions in job interviews I can tell you. Then when I mentioned I'd tried to learn to code, they were suggesting sites I could go to, languages that may be better to start with etc. It wasn't until an hour after the conversation I thought, they were 12 and I was being taught and recruited by them for next year and I took a step back, they had caught the passion too and wanted to make sure that others had. I have no doubt that every kid at that weekend will be back and that all the 18 year old's will sign up as mentors, in fact I know some have as the sign up page is already up.
I have caught the passion and I want to help, in any way to make this event brilliant and to spread the passion across the country and beyond, especially to Ireland who didn't have any kids this year so extra push to get the passion across the water and see you next year.
So most of the week I couldn't go, but Thursday I went along to the centre that they were both signed up for. See yrs is a whole UK thing not just a London thing which thrills me no end (I get annoyed when events just go to London and say a UK tour) for the first 4 days of the week it's at their local centre, where they meet other under 18's and they put together an app or website using at least open piece of open data. Some have been coders for a while but some have never coded in their lives now it's those kids that amazed me that Thursday as they showed me what they had done, that was the moment I caught the passion of yrs.
The weekend, well it was amazing you had some older kids that had teamed up with the younger ones to create things that were out of this world but not in every case were the older ones the coders. A team that stood out in the early round were from BMC in London. There stood two older lads and two younger lads (seven and eight if I remember correctly) and instantly the microphone was handed to the younger lads, see they were the ones who helped the older ones produce their idea and a big shout out to Iain, that lad is amazing and I can't wait to see what he does next year, he has the confidence of ten people and is using it constructively, he is on my one to watch list.
So there are so many blogs and videos out there with a list of the winners This being one so I won't list them I want to jump ahead to Sunday morning, where I'm sitting in a room with two lads from Brighton, both are 12 and both are quizzing me on why I'm there and what I've done this week to help. I have been asked less questions in job interviews I can tell you. Then when I mentioned I'd tried to learn to code, they were suggesting sites I could go to, languages that may be better to start with etc. It wasn't until an hour after the conversation I thought, they were 12 and I was being taught and recruited by them for next year and I took a step back, they had caught the passion too and wanted to make sure that others had. I have no doubt that every kid at that weekend will be back and that all the 18 year old's will sign up as mentors, in fact I know some have as the sign up page is already up.
I have caught the passion and I want to help, in any way to make this event brilliant and to spread the passion across the country and beyond, especially to Ireland who didn't have any kids this year so extra push to get the passion across the water and see you next year.
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