Having worked diligently on their Scratch games and applications since September, and armed with explanatory posters and their Design Process log to show all the work that went into the design of these computer games, the TYs were ready to face the SciFest judges on Wednesday, 19th December.
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On Wednesday, 3rd May three groups of TY students went to IT Blanchardstown to compete in the SciFest@Colleges level of the competition. Two groups had Scratch programming projects and the third group had a Science project. James O'Brien writes about the day.
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In a busy week for the TY students, two external judges examined their Scratch programming projects in the second strand of the SciFest@Stratford competition held on Tuesday, 8th March. Congratulations to Gabriel Messam for his individual project and to Cormac Kelly, Jake Henry and Geordan Sheridan O'Brien for their group projects - they were deemed joint winners.
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The upgrade to our teachers and students computer facilities has allowed us to schedule Computer Studies classes for all year groups (senior cycle students timetabled subject to subject options).
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Since Sunday, 19th April the Parents Association has organised a weekly CoderDojo@Stratford from 4pm - 5.30pm. Up to 20 pupils aged between 8-12 have been attending regularly, with students from Stratford College acting as mentors and lending their expertise, while the main programming expert is a parent from Stratford National School.
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Six TY students competed at the College level of SciFest hosted by the Institute of Technology, Blanchardstown on Wednesday, 6th May. The TY students competed at the Intermediate level of the Technology section with their Scratch projects. Moya McCrea, TY student, writes about the day.
Read more → The first Stratford College CoderDojo Club started on Sunday, 19th April at 4pm in the school hall. Pupils aged between 8-12 years are welcome to come and learn the basics of programming, using Scratch, every Sunday from now until the end of May. Stratford is also celebrating Tech Week 2015 (26th April - 2nd May) in Science and Computing classes.
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2nd Year English students, James O'Brien and Eoin Little, programmed an online maze game in Scratch as their chosen task for English in November. Try the game yourself!
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On Tuesday, 29th April, Stratford College hosted its first-ever SciFest@Stratford. A SciFest is like a mini 'Young Scientist' competition but held in the school itself. Lots of students can enter a SciFest and the rest of the school gets to see their work too. External SciFest judges visit the school to choose the prizewinners.
Read more →This year TY students all had to take a module in Programming using Scratch as the means to learning how to do this. Fiona Maguire and Carmel Grey describe in brief how they created their Scratch project which was presented to the SciFest@Stratford judges on Tuesday, 29th April.
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