Welcome to Technocamps
Our mission is to inspire, motivate and engage people with computational thinking and promote Computer Science as underpinning all aspects of modern society.
Our Programme
Since 2003, Technocamps has been providing hands-on computing workshops to inspire, motivate and engage young people. In particular, during the two school years spanning 2014-2016, we delivered an average of 9 hours of workshops in 97% of Wales’ state-backed secondary schools.
With our Playground Computing programme we deliver day-long interactive workshops in primary schools, one classroom at a time. During the 2016-2017 school year we delivered 175 workshops in primary schools to over 4000 pupils and their teachers.
With our Technoteach programme we are providing vital CPD training sessions to up-skill ICT teachers in the new computer science curriculum. In particular, we provide an NQF-level accredited qualification, the Certificate of Teaching of Computing. In June 2016, 13 teachers were awarded this certificate following a full year of Technoteach workshops; and there are 18 teachers currently undertaking this certificate training during the 2016-2017 school year.
Popular Resources
Alice is a 3D programming environment, allowing you to create movies, games, tell stories or create animations.
App Inventor is a quick, easy and free way for anyone to build an Android app, without needing to have programming experience.
Arduino is a small circuit board which allows you to make a computer that can sense and control the physical environment.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the intelligence exhibited by machines or software, and there are many interesting questions around this topic. Can you program a computer to think?
Greenfoot is a simple, visual programming language based on Java, which is very relevant as Java is a highly sought after skill in industry.
