Category Archives: Event reviews

Event Reviews – Geeky Night In and Codecademy Python!

We had some super events last weekend – on Friday night, we held a charity “night in” for Macmillan Cancer Support, and on Sunday afternoon our tea party was Python-flavoured, learning the basics of coding in Python. Really Geeky Night … Continue reading

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Event review: Manchester Girl Geeks BarCamp, 16th March @MadLab

Manchester Girl Geeks had brilliant time hosting our first ever BarCamp (or if you spotted our cheeky hashtag - #bracamp). More than 60 people took part in our unconference style event where speakers get to pick a time and room for … Continue reading

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Event Review: Girl Geek Tea Party #25 – Show and Tell, Sunday 23rd September, 2-4pm, MadLab

We’d like to thank everyone who came to our Show & Tell session / Tea Party at the end of September. The event encompassed a veritable smorgasbord of interests including: mathematical card magic games design body chemistry as patchwork researcher … Continue reading

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Video: Our “Intro to Coding” workshops

We’ve had quite a few successful “intro to coding” workshops this year which were run by @BinaryKitten and loads of brilliant volunteers. The idea behind the 2 hour “taster sessions” was simply to give people who have never coded before … Continue reading

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Event Review: Girl Geeks @ Mega Mela, 26 August 2012

Having fully road-tested the maths origami format at previous events at Mini Maker Faire, MOSI and at Jodrell Bank, Katie and the Girl Geeks crew took this fun activity to Manchester Mega Mela at Platts Fields Park on Sunday 26 … Continue reading

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Manchester Girl Geeks at Mini Maker Faire

Maths origami and the Arduino volcano Manchester Girl Geeks were out in force at Mini Maker Faire event at MOSI on Sunday 29 July. Our stall featured Katie’s maths origami challenges – make a dodecahedron anyone? While Amy exhibited her … Continue reading

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Solder, circuits and badges with flashing lights for RECLAIM

We were delighted to be hosting an event at MadLab on Sunday 22nd July to give girls from Manchester’s RECLAIM project the chance to brush up their electronics skills. Also, we had some rocket badge kits with flashing LEDs to … Continue reading

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Event reviews: April, May & June 2012

We’ve been very busy in the past couple of months, and our lovely photographer and blogger Evelyn has left us to go back to Canada, so we’ve not had an event review in quite a while! Well – here’s a … Continue reading

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Event Review: Women in Science Fair at MOSI

On Sun Mar 18th, visitors of MOSI got a rare treat to meet some of the great women scientists of our history. On site were: Delia Derbyshire, a pioneer of early electronic music who also composed the musical score for … Continue reading

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Manchester Girl Geeks – Best of 2011

It’s that time of the year again – time for our best of slideshow, with photos from the many events we ran this year. Enjoy the snapshots! Manchester Girl Geeks – Best of 2011 from Manchester Girl Geeks on Vimeo.

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