CoderDojo Banbridge

Community for CoderDojo Banbridge. Contains useful information about the dojo and links to resources used in our sessions.

With Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations — and share your creations with others in the online community.

Scratch helps young people learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively — essential skills for life in the 21st century.

Follow this link if you are a parent and would like to find out more.

Scratch in CoderDojo Banbridge

In CoderDojo Banbridge, we make use of cs-first, which has been developed by Google, to help ninjas guide their learning with the Scratch programming language. Ninjas can tackle one or more topics, each based around a specific theme. Each topics comprises of eight activites and ninjas earn a certificate on completion of all exercises.

If you’re new and don’t have a CS First login yet, sign up for a new account:

  • Click on this link to log in to CS First: https://csfirst.withgoogle.com/login
  • Click on the “Enter Club Code” button. The club code is k6wk6c
  • When asked if your class is CoderDojo Banbridge, click ‘Yes’
  • You should be all set to start your new project!
Club Difficulty Description
Story Telling Easier In Storytelling, students use computer science to tell fun and interactive stories. Storytelling emphasizes creativity by encouraging club members to tell a unique story each day.
Art Moderate In Art, students create animations, interactive artwork, photograph filters, and other exciting, artistic projects.
Music & Sound Easier In Music & Sound, students use the computer to play musical notes, create a music video, and build an interactive music display while learning how programming is used to create music.
Games Design More Challenging In Game Design, students learn basic video game coding concepts by making different types of games, including racing, platform, launching, and more!
Animation Advanced Students create fun and complex animated projects. This is an advanced curriculum, which means it teaches new concepts that are recommended for students who have already participated in at least two other CS First themes.

CoderDojo Badges

CoderDojo Banbridge will award the following badges based on completing coureses as listed below:

Badge Criteria
Scratch [Beginner] Completed one or more of Story Telling, Music & Sound or Art
Scratch [Intermediate] Completed Game Design
Scratch [Advanced] Completed Animation

Further Resources

Resource Description
Scratch Kata CoderDojo Sushi path for Scratch: Learn to make animations and games in Scratch
CodeClub Scratch Projects Learn how to program your own interactive stories, games and animations.
Explore Scratch A curated list of projects from Scratch.