Please RSVP: digital@birmingham.gov.uk by Tuesday 6 August 2013
Invitation to Birmingham Show and Tell – Young Rewired State 2013
Come along and meet Birmingham’s Next Generation Coders
Where: BBC Mailbox
When: Thursday 8 August 2013
Time: 18.00 – 19.30
Dress code: Informal
Programme includes:
- Welcome: Catherine Hearne, Head of Regional & Local Programming, BBC Midlands
- Creating a brighter future for Birmingham: Sir Albert Bore, Leader, Birmingham City Council
- Code a better Birmingham – what next for YRS: Lara Ratnaraja, Independent Consultant
- Rising to the challenge: Birmingham Centre Kids & Mentors
What’s it all about?
Around 600 young coders will be arriving at Birmingham’s Custard Factory on 9 August as Young Rewired State’s Festival of Code returns to the city for its second consecutive year. Participants as young as 5 and up to the age of 18 will be working in over 50 centres across the UK including the local centres BBC Birmingham and Birmingham City University in the lead up to the festival. From the 5th - 9th the young coders will develop apps, websites, and digital prototypes alone or in teams using open data and will then unite in Birmingham at the Custard Factory on the 9th August for the weekend to present their ideas to Judges.
Join us at the BBC for an informal gathering of key city leaders across the public, private and community sector together with the Birmingham young coders to share and celebrate with them what they have created. Hear from them why coding, collaboration and creativity will be an important bedrock of innovation for Birmingham’s future economy and how YRS is helping them to exploit the economic, social and education potential of coding.
Refreshments and pizza!
Invitation only event: Please RSVP to digital@birmingham.gov.uk by Tuesday 6 August 2013
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