Tag Archives: Manchester Girl Geeks

Upcoming Event: Girl Geek Tea Party #30 – Learn to Program in Python

Posted on March 27, 2013 by manchester

Manchester Girl Geeks Tea Party #30 – Learn to program in Python Sunday 28th April 2013, 2-4.30pm @TechHub, Manchester Third floor, Carvers’ Warehouse, 77 Dale Street, Manchester M1 2HG With the help of www.codecademy.com, we will walk and talk you … Continue reading →

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

Posted on March 18, 2013 by zoeb

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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Upcoming event: Manchester Girl Geeks workshops – in association with ScienceGrrl, Saturday 9th March @MOSI

Posted on March 4, 2013 by zoeb

On the 9th of March, Manchester Girl Geeks and ScienceGrrl will be marking International Women’s Day with an afternoon of events at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. ScienceGrrl are organising an afternoon of fun events at MOSI, … Continue reading →

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HackManchester success for the Manchester Girl Geeks team

Posted on November 1, 2012 by manchester

We’re very pleased to announce that Sarah Carswell, Aadhi Selvaraj, and Rachel Breeze, alias “Team Manchester Girl Geeks” won MOSI’s Turing Sunflower Challenge at last weekend’s HackManchester 25 hour coding marathon.* They developed a site which pulled in location data from … Continue reading →

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Video: Our “Intro to Coding” workshops

Posted on September 1, 2012 by manchester

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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Manchester Girl Geeks at Mini Maker Faire

Posted on July 29, 2012 by zoeb

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

Posted on July 25, 2012 by manchester

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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Manchester Mini Maker Faire @MOSI, 28-29 July 2012

Posted on July 20, 2012 by zoeb

Manchester Girl Geeks gear up for Mini Maker Faire Are you interested in making stuff or checking out what other folks have made? It doesn’t matter if it’s electronics, knitting, robotics, 3D printing or anything else that floats your boat, … Continue reading →

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An Introduction to Coding with Young Rewired State

Posted on June 29, 2012 by manchester

Young Rewired State and Manchester Girl Geeks present: An Introduction to Coding (7th & 14 July 2012) for girls aged 12-18 With the help of www.codecademy.com, we will walk and talk you through the first steps to writing your own code … Continue reading →

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Event Review: Coding Intro with Codecademy

Posted on February 28, 2012 by evelyn

Last week, Manchester Girl Geeks held their “Intro to Coding Workshop” hosted by Kat Reeve (@BinaryKitten). We dove right in, first with a bit of history and background to where coding came from, then we got hands-on with our laptops … Continue reading →

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