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Samuel Garvey with teacher Sadhbh Brosnan.

Mounthawk Student Reaches Final Of Coding Competition

May 16, 2023 at 10:14 am Comments are Disabled

FOURTEEN-year-old Samuel Garvey, a second-year student in Mounthawk Secondary School in Tralee, represented his county as Kerry’s sole finalist at the National Scratch Coding Competition. Scratch is a visual programming language that helps children to build key coding skills in a fun and interactive way. There were 280 entries this […]

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Open Evening To Learn More About Course With High Employment Prospects

Open Evening To Learn More About Course With High Employment Prospects

October 15, 2019 at 9:26 am Comments are Disabled

THE newly-established Kerry College of Further Education and Training is collaborating again with Code Institute to offer an intensive classroom-based delivery of their online coding boot camp to train 14 local candidates to become junior software developers in just 15 weeks. In a first for Kerry, the accelerated bootcamp programme […]

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Chloe O'Sullivan, Caragh Kenny O'Sullivan, Pawel Kowalski and Emma O'Sullivan at the IT Tralee Summer Camp showcase on Friday. Photo by Dermot Crean

PHOTOS: IT Tralee Summer Camp Kids Showcase Their Skills

July 13, 2019 at 11:07 am Comments are Disabled

IMPRESSIVE ingenuity and scientific skills were on display at a summer camp in IT Tralee this week. The college was running two summer camps and hosting over 80 children aged from 10yrs-16yrs and on Friday morning they hosted a ‘Showcase event’ for both camps in the Kerry Sports Academy. The […]

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Free Coding Event For Young People To Take Place In IT Tralee

Free Coding Event For Young People To Take Place In IT Tralee

October 3, 2018 at 3:50 pm Comments are Disabled

STUDENTS aged from seven to 17 are invited to a major coding event in IT Tralee next week. Mega Dojo 2018 takes place at IT Tralee North Campus on Saturday October 13. With support from CoderDojo Ireland, CoderDojo MidWest and the Higher Education Authority, IT Tralee invite young people aged from […]

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Kerry Schools Invited To Compete In National Coding Competition

Kerry Schools Invited To Compete In National Coding Competition

January 24, 2017 at 2:56 pm Comments are Disabled

  KERRY students are invited to take part in a National Scratch Competition for Ireland’s young coders from Junior Infants all the way up to sixth year. Scratch is a visual programming language that encourages children to develop essential coding skills through fun and interactive learning. The competition, which is run […]

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