Stratford is celebrating Tech Week 2018 (22nd - 28th April) during Computer Studies classes. Apart from many Computer Science 'unplugged' activities and online coding and computational thinking puzzles, TYs had speakers from Hewlett Packard and Virgin Media to hear a talk about 'IT is not just for geeks'.
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During 1st Year History and Computer Studies classes, students worked in groups to create one minute Stop Motion videos on a Medieval History topic of their choice. Work started in December and were finalised in early February. 1st Year student, Itai Barhen, explains what is involved in making a Stop Motion video. A selection of the videos were shown at the 1st Year Assembly on 27th April.
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During Computer Studies class on Tuesday, 21st March, two representatives from Connecting Women in Technology (CWIT) spoke to the TYs about the many different careers in IT companies.
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A new and exciting partnership has just started between Stratford College TY Computer Studies class and 3rd Year Computer Science students from DIT Kevin Street. Over a series of five Friday mornings during February and March, a number of DIT Computer Science students are coming in to the TY Computer Studies class to mentor them in Python and Raspberry Pi. The DIT students are doing this as an elective module called "Computing in the Community".
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Mr. Fennell and the TYs built a computer over a series of classes in February.
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On Tuesday, 13th December two external judges came to visit the TY Computer Studies class as part of the SciFest@Schools competition. There were seven groups each with their own Scratch project. Brian Gillespie (Lecturer in Computer Studies, DIT Kevin Street) and Sheila Porter (CEO of SciFest) were the two judges.
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On Thursday, 12th May, Ms Finnegan brought the TY class to the Science Gallery and to Makeshop to make LED torches.
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Ms Mahon judged the Raspberry Pi punnets made by each of the 1st Year students in Computer Studies classes during March and April. The winning designs are used to package the Raspberry Pi's installed in the computer lab.
Read more →Three groups of TY students competed at the SciFest@College level of the competition in the Institute of Technology, Blanchardstown on Wednesday, 4th May. Two of the groups entered Scratch projects into the Intermediate Technology competition and the third group entered their Mindfulness project into the Intermediate Science section of the competition.
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The 1st Year Computer Studies students presented Ms Donohoe with the CoderQuilt 1.0 that they have creating since October. It involved a variety of yarn crafts, as well as writing out the algorithms (set of instructions) to create knitting patterns. The class was run like a software team and the 1st Years made their deadline!
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