Girls Coding Week

August 4, 2018

Girls Coding Week

This one week workshop aimed at empowering female teenagers between 11-14 years old with new and engaging ways of learning to code with the app Pocket Code. With Pocket Code girls designed games, stories, and own apps. Furthermore, they were introduced to LEGO®-Mindstorms EV3 robots, they were able to stitch creative programmed patterns with an embroidery machine on bags. Programming is super easy and cool – especially for girls! This concept for the “Girls Coding Week” will be offered again in summer 2019 (29.7-02.08.2019)

From OLPC to Code’n’Stitch

Can some of you remember the “One Laptop per Child” initiative? Back in 2005 the entusiasm and optimisn in technology was greater than ever. Nicholas Negroponte co-founder of the MIT Media Lab announced the initiative and it build up a big hype. The goal was to provide technology across the

Catrobat 1.0

This was not an easy task, as we started Catrobat over 11 years ago we had not just to evolve ourselves as an organization constantly, based on a huge number of volunteers, but also the smartphone itself was in ongoing evolution. Their underlying operating systems and the surrounding software and

Pocket Code won Best App Award in Europe in the HMS App Innovation Contest by Huawei

Over 3,000 teams from over 170 countries and regions competed with approximately 1,000 integrated applications with HMS Core open capabilities. Catrobat’s Pocket Code was one of the participating Applications and we are really happy that we made it to the top and are one of 5 in the Best App

Girls Coding Week