This group is 50-50 gender split. At the start, girls all claimed no/little programming experience, guys each listed a few languages. Interesting to see who is progressing fastest with the tasks.. :)
volunteer (16 out of 24)
Enjoying watching kids discover that coding is mostly trial and error and wtf
Today's procrastination exercise is teaching 16 year olds how to make lego robots follow lines
Organiser, Edinburgh Centre, Young Rewired State
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Heading up this year's Edinburgh YRS contingent. Want to mentor? Sign up! Hoping to raise enough money to take two dozen kids to Birmingham on a coach, seeking sponsors...
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Organiser, Edinburgh Centre, Young Rewired StateHeading up this year's Edinburgh YRS contingent. Want to mentor? Sign up! Hoping to raise enough money to take two dozen kids to Birmingham on a coach, seeking sponsors...
Local organiser, BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium
☑ Attending!
Super excited to bring the BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium to Edinburgh for the biggest and best one yet! I've been to every Lovelace since 2009 and lightly helped with a few; I've got so much out of this event, it was awesome to be able to really give back. (Handled local sponsors, arranged venue, catering, social event, stored a literal tower of boxes of swag in my office; ramped up recruiting for Edinburgh participants including running a poster making workshop a couple of weeks beforehand).
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Local organiser, BCSWomen Lovelace ColloquiumSuper excited to bring the BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium to Edinburgh for the biggest and best one yet! I've been to every Lovelace since 2009 and lightly helped with a few; I've got so much out of this event, it was awesome to be able to really give back. (Handled local sponsors, arranged venue, catering, social event, stored a literal tower of boxes of swag in my office; ramped up recruiting for Edinburgh participants including running a poster making workshop a couple of weeks beforehand).
Co-organiser, Smart Data Hack
University of Edinburgh
Reprised my role as very-stressed-person and just about pulled off another successful week with around 100 students including (!!) business and design students; smartdatahack.org.
W3C Social Web Working Group
University of Edinburgh representative
The Social Web Working Group will create Recommendation Track deliverables that standardize a common JSON-based syntax for social data, a client-side API, and a Web protocol for federating social information such as status updates.
Co-organiser, Edinburgh Centre, Young Rewired State
Helped to organise the local centre, recruited participants in the run up; we got teams through to the semi-finals this time! The Festival of Code was in Plymouth this year, so most of our participants couldn't make the trip; organised a mini-alternative with Glasgow, Dundee and Aberdeen centres, in Dundee instead.
Co-organiser, Smart Data Hack
University of Edinburgh
Tried backing away for this year's SDH; co-opted some undergrad minions to delegate to, and handed off the website to CompSoc. Still ended up doing quite a lot, but managed to salvage enough time to also write a paper in the run-up, so delegation: successful.
Swap-shop volunteer
SHRUB: Swap and Reuse Hub Edinburgh
The SHRUB is an awesome cooperative dedicated to promoting reuse, recycling, repairing and upcycling. I helped with early sorting-out of the new shop premises, made some shelves.. spent a few hours per week working in the shop in exchange for swap tokens which which I have procured all manner of exciting things, and helped with the big university halls cleanup last year. I regret that I've only managed to make it in a couple of times in 2015.
Co-founder and organiser, Prewired
Programming club for under 19s
Now weekly. Sometimes more. See prewired.org.
Volunteer Moderator
Edinburgh Freegle
Freegle is a national network for promoting reuse and reducing waste by enabling people to give away stuff they don't need anymore, and other people to pick second-hand things for free, in their local area. I'm a sub-par mailing list moderator, and I feel bad about being so inattentive.
Co-organiser and mentor, Edinburgh Centre, Young Rewired State
Helped to organise the local centre, recruited participants in the run up, and helped with mentoring during the week. Also helped to supervise a coachload of kids for the trip to the Festival of Code.
Co-organiser, Smart Data Hack
University of Edinburgh
Dropped the ball on my PhD for months to wrangle sponsors, set up the website, recruit participants and generally get shit together. It went well, with feedback from students like "easily the most useful and fun week I've had since I started uni".
Community Coordinator for Edinburgh
Open Knowledge Scotland
I help with organising Open Knowledge Meetups and Open Data Maker Nights. This definitely has nothing to do with my PhD supervisor being the OK Scotland Ambassador.
President, SocieTea
University of Edinburgh
At SocieTea we sit around on Thursday evenings and drink fancy teas, make tea puns, and don't force anyone to socialise who doesn't want to. I'm proud to have facilitated this. Even though I'm no longer in charge, I still host a suitcase of tea, cups and saucers, and a tea urn, under my desk in my office.