2017 Announcements
Announcements for 2017 CoderDojoTo will not be holding our regular monthly event in January. We are working on a number of exciting initiatives and will be sending another e-mail soon with...
View ArticleLessons from CoderDojoTo at TPL Annette Branch
Annette Street Library Toronto (TPL) On March 25th, Toronto Public Library Annette Street Branch held it’s first CoderDojoTo event. Branch Head Jeffery Toste spearheaded the in-branch initiative and...
View ArticleLessons from the field: Curriculum kits have been converted into topics
What’s this? Our kits have evolved into topic folders to match our new seating layout. #kidscancode #coderdojo #toronto #volunteer #mentor pic.twitter.com/1xivwvMtFx — CoderDojo Toronto ☯...
View ArticleSession Debrief Minutes: May 14th
After each session, we hold a quick (<10min) mentor debrief to see what wins were made that day, introduce any new ideas to work on, and examine what didn’t work. BIG WINS: The greatest take away...
View ArticleCanada Coding Week event: Canadarm2
Thank you for volunteering your time for code education. Our event is on Saturday, June 3rd 217 from 2 – 4pm and we are holding a mentor/volunteer training session beforehand at 1:30 – to ensure that...
View ArticleCoderDojo Toronto – September 24th
Hello @here, thank you to those who came, and those who were in touch about missing it. Today went smoothly, well attended and staffed by volunteers. We had stability in hardware with 6 laptops with...
View ArticleCoderDojo Toronto – January 21, 2018
A big thank you to all of the learners and mentors who made it out to the event this month. We were very excited to get back into programming in 2018 with some new CSS resources for styling web pages....
View ArticleCoderDojo Toronto – March 18th
It was an awesome month at the dojo this March with some exciting new faces and excellent returning learners. We covered a lot of ground with Scratch projects this month including using backdrops to...
View ArticleCoderDojo Toronto honours the legacy of a young coder
CoderDojo as an organization has touched many people’s lives through the gift of code. By providing a safe space for young people from different communities to meet mentors, access learning resources,...
View ArticleCoderDojo Toronto – September 19, 2018
It was really awesome to celebrate 5 years of CoderDojo Toronto with all you dedicated learners, brand new faces and passionate mentors. You’re the best! I was wowed by all the of the continued...
View ArticleCoderDojo Toronto – March 10th, 2019: International Women’s Day
The countdown is on! In 7 days we will be having a special CoderDojo Toronto Learn to Code event on March 10th in celebration of International Women’s Day 2019. The theme for this year’s International...
View ArticleCoderDojo Toronto – March 17th, 2019
T-800 Terminator from the Terminator movies. It probably wasn’t programmed in Python While you are busy celebrating International Womens Day with us tomorrow at Bitmaker, don’t forget to start thinking...
View ArticleCoderDojo Toronto – March 10th, 2019: Wrap-up
In celebration of International Women’s day, CoderDojo held a Learn to Code event on March 10th, 2019. It was a great success with 14 learners attending. The theme for International Women’s Day was...
View ArticleCoderDojo Toronto – March 17th, 2019: Wrap-up
This past CoderDojo drop in lab was a great day for all involved. The theme this month was International Women’s Day, and many of the Learners where doing awesome things with projects they worked on...
View ArticleBeginner Python Next Steps
.inlCode {font-family: monospace;font-weight: bold;} So you took the CoderDojo Workshop on Python and want to know where to go next? Well lets start with what did you learn in the workshop. You learnt...
View ArticleCoderDojo Toronto – April 14th, 2019
Earth day, which is happening this month on April 22nd is a day action to raise awareness about protecting the environment. Earth Day 2018 was about ending plastic pollution. This year, Earth Day 2019...
View ArticleCoderDojo Toronto – April 14th, 2019: Wrap-up
This past CoderDojo drop in lab was a great day for all involved. The theme this month was Earth Day, and many of the Learners where doing awesome things with projects to do with the Earth Day theme....
View ArticleCoderDojo Toronto – May 26th, 2019
This months theme is “Water a plant day”. Not as big a topic as International Women’s day, or Earth day, but really important nonetheless. Especially when you forget to water your wife’s (or mother’s)...
View ArticleCoderDojo Toronto – May 26th, 2019: Wrap-up
This past CoderDojo drop in lab was a great day for all involved. The theme this month was ” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”> Water a plant day. The topic of the workshop was building a moisture...
View ArticleCoderDojo Toronto – June 23rd, 2019
This months theme is Indigenous Peoples day. The Indigenous peoples of Canada were the original inhabitants of Canada before European settlers came. There are many indigenous groups (or tribes) and all...
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