RS Components donates Raspberry Pis for young coder event
To support future engineers, RS Components donated 50 Raspberry Pi devices to CoderDojo’s Coolest Projects, an event to find Ireland’s brightest young coders. The event allowed members of CoderDojo, community-based programming clubs supported by the Coderdojo Foundation, to showcase the projects they have created. RS also offered a prize of 250 euros worth of RS products for use in future projects.
The event was open to younger members of society from aged seven to 17. It was held on the 13th June in the RDS Dublin, where the BT Young Scientists Competition is held each year. Up to 500 projects were showcased, double that of last year. The event included participants from around Europe, with around 10% of projects from CoderDojo members outside of Ireland.
One of last year’s winners at the Coolest Projects event was Niamh Scanlon, who created an app that pinpointed the map location of all electric car charging points around the country, whether they were currently in use and if so, how long for, all in real time. The app also provided directions to the charging points. Scanlon has since gone on to develop the app for Android phones, which is expected to be available on the Play Store soon. She is now also working on an Apple version.
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