Coding workshop UCD

Coding Workshop for kids at Insight UCD

Submitted on Tuesday, 05/11/2024
On October 30th, UCD and Insight hosted an exciting coding workshop for kids aged 10 and up, where enthusiastic young participants got a hands-on introduction to programming.
Led by Yue Wang, an ML-Labs postdoctoral research fellow, working with Insight principal investigator Dr. Kathleen Curran, the event guided kids through a beginner-friendly coding game (https://www.google.com/logos/2017/logo17/logo17.html) and python introduction notebooks designed by Weichen Huang (https://github.com/weichen-huang/JupyterNotebooksPythonTutorial/tree/master).
Some participants advanced through multiple levels on the python introduction notebooks — one even completed five chapters, covering concepts equivalent to three weeks of a college programming intro course!
It was an event full of learning, fun, and inspiration for these young future coders.