[ELECTRON] Fwd: Festival of Code

[Mark Craig]

I believe the following message is relevant to this group and haven't seen
it posted here before.

Regards,

Mark Craig
markcra at gmail.com
http://www.markcra.com

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 From: "Kate McDonald" <kate at youngrewiredstate.org>
 Subject: Festival of Code
 To: <hello at maklab.co.uk>
 Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 10:07:59 +0100

   Hi there!

 Hope you're well. I wonder if you might be able to help us promote an
upcoming free event in the city for young digital makers?

Young Rewired State <http://yrs.io> is a connected community of coders and
digital makers aged 18 and under. We introduce them to like-minded peers,
and expert mentors, at free events around the world, where they focus on
collaboration, skill development and using their digital skills for social
good.

 Every summer, we run the world’s largest annual hackathon for young
people! The 'Festival of Code <http://festival.yrs.io/>' is a week-long
celebration of young technology talent, bringing together coders from all
across the UK - and the world - to build projects together to solve real
world problems. Over the past six years, we've worked with over 2,000 young
people in the UK and abroad, with lots of our alumni now returning to
mentor the next generation of young coders.

 At the Festival our community gather from Monday to Thursday at
volunteer-led local centres <http://festival.yrs.io/centres> to make new
friends and prototype projects using their coding skills and open data.
They then come together for the Festival weekend where they showcase what
they have built to parents, mentors, press, industry and expert judges,
while having lots of fun experimenting with new technology and eating much
pizza!

The Festival of Code 2015 is taking place from *July 27th to August 2nd, *with
the Glasgow centre being run at Tay House by Waqas Arshid. Full information
about the Festival can be found at festival.yrs.io

If any of your community of young coders would like to participate in the
Festival of Code, they can register here
<http://festival.yrs.io/register>. We'd
love to have your support during the week too. If you, or any of your
volunteers, would like to mentor at the Festival, we'd love you to get in
touch here <http://festival.yrs.io/register/mentor>.

 I really would be so grateful if you could help us spread the word in
Glasgow - even a couple of tweets would be fantastic. Thanks so much in
advance and have a great weekend!

 Very best,

 Kate McDonald
 Hyperlocal <http://hl.yrs.io> and Everywhere Lead

 W: yrs.io | hl.yrs.io
 T: @youngrewired <https://twitter.com/youngrewired>
 M: +44 (0)7764 978 059
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