Our primary focus is to find and foster the young children and teenagers who are driven to teaching themselves how to code, how to program the world around them. This is a mighty challenge though well-supported with free tutorials online, but inevitably an isolating and solitary activity.
The event in 2012 runs from the 6th to the 12th August. During that week businesses, small and large, around the country act as hosts to local young people, YRS alumni, Rewired State mentors and other volunteers. A challenge is set to build digital products: mobile and web, using at least one piece of open data.
It is free for every child to enter so long as they are aged 18 or under and have a rudimentary understanding of programming — although we do send out free resources in advance of the week for those who are unsure of their skills.
At the end of the week everyone piles on coaches, trains and cars to the The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park where they will have a night of camp and code, pizza and camaraderie. On the Saturday afternoon they will show what they have made to an audience of their peers, Press, government and industry. Prizes are awarded and lives are changed.
Learn more about programming by working with other programmers. Quiz mentors and other YRSers about the stuff you want to learn and share your knowledge too.
The opportunity to build something cool with a team of other talented young developers. Work on bringing your ideas to life in code and help other developers bring theirs to life too.
After the event you're automatically a part of the growing network of young developers across the UK. Lifetime friendships are born as well as businesses. Mentor relationships are forged so you're no longer coding alone.
Heard enough? Sign up to attend the nearest Young Rewired
State event to you. We already have events in Wales and England
and there are more to come around the world, so watch this space.
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Want to find out a little more about the people behind Young
Rewired State? Talk with parents of past YRS attendees who have volunteered to help
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Are you a geek over 18? Don't worry, you can sign up
to become a Young Rewired State mentor and share
your knowledge with YRS2012 attendees.
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Young Rewired State is a decentralized event that runs
at multiple centres across the country. If you have some
spare office space for a week and you're a technical
organization then contact us!
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We need volunteers to help run YRS2012, everything
from copywriters to event organizers to community
managers. If you have some spare time, drop us an email
and tell us how you can help
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Young Rewired State is a not-for-profit organization, we don't take Intellectual Property and we definitely don't act as a big recruiting agency, we rely entirely on sponsorship and donations. We used PeopleFund.it to raise 20k. Corporate sponsorship is being raised privately.
In the mean time, you might want to brush up on your coding skills by visiting some of these links (don't worry, it's not compulsory!)
An awesome resource to learn to code from the beginning. Starts in Javascript.
A simple guide to basic HTML from W3Schools.
A great guide to HTML & CSS, updated weekly .
A simple guide to basic CSS from W3Schools.
A simple guide to basic Javascript from W3Schools.
One of the best Ruby on Rails tutorials around, from zero to deploy.
Hours of video on data types to Fibonacci functions and everything in-between.
Github's guide to using the git version control system.
The best place to go for design inspiration.
The Hacker Hub. Everything from news, to tutorials, to startups. Bookmark this.
Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art.
Logo is a multi-paradigm computer programming language first made for NASA a long time ago, and used in education.
Alice is a 3d programming environment, designed to “create an animation for telling a story”.
Designed to motivate a broad spectrum of middle school students (particularly girls) to learn to program computers through creating short 3D animated movies. Note: Story Telling Alice is not hugely tested, is only available for windows based machines, and has no support
Android is a mobile operating system for mobile devices such as mobile telephones and tablet computers developed by the Open Handset Alliance.
Programmable lego
Simple, free, and fun
Emphasizes precision, attention to detail, and persistence
A great page on Android programming (for mobiles) there are many tutorials for Android
A list of resources for those thinking about getting a job as a games developer
A cross between Encyclopedia Brown and Micro Adventure, each volume in this series contains several short mysteries. The user must read carefully and run very simple BASIC computer programs in order to guess the solutions