Saturday is the last day of this year’s Bath Digital Festival – most of the weekend events have a focus on young people, so the perfect time to bring your little ones along to get them interested in digital pursuits! If you’d like to see all the events hosted each day head to the BDF Website.
Saturday at Bath Digital Festival – for kids
Coding for Kids!
Morning Session: 10am – 12pm, Saturday 26th October 2019 @ The Guild Coworking Hub
Early Afternoon Session: 12:30pm – 2:30pm, Saturday 26th October 2019 @ The Guild Coworking Hub
Late Afternoon Session: 3pm – 5pm, Saturday 26th October 2019 @ The Guild Coworking Hub
Scratch story making for children in KS 1 and 2
Come and make your own interactive Halloween Digital Story in Scratch.
Digital stories are the best – heroes are the setting of a great book with real action and interaction too. Using art and creative writing to design strong characters and setting; bring your story alive with action between the characters, then make your story interactive!
Interactive web emoji for students in KS 3 and 4
Come and make your own interactive Halloween emoji in HTML and javascript.
Web pages are like great books, with the added beauty of movement and interaction! Using HTML, javascript and real online software development tools, you too can make your witches, cats and pumpkins interactive, then take them home to amaze your friends and family.
Please bring your own laptop, although we have some extra laptops for people who can’t bring their own.
Code Cracking With Girlguiding Bath
10am – 12pm, Saturday 26th October 2019 @ BDF2019 Festival Hub
Girlguiding South West England, GCHQ, NCSC and CyberFirst have developed a new exciting challenge called SWEBots On the Net. The challenge will enable girls to learn about cryptography, code breaking, algorithms and passwords through a series of games, crafts and activities. And of course, every girl completing the challenge will be rewarded with a special badge!
This is will be a fully interactive workshop for girls aged 7-10.
You do not have to be a member of Girlguiding to take part – all girls are welcome!
Saturday at Bath Digital Festival – for adults
The Drone Experience
10:30am – 12pm, Saturday 26th October 2019 @ Kingswood School Upper Playing Fields
Come along to hear all about drone technology and see drones in action. Have your questions ready to ask the experts anything you’d like to know about how a drone works, it’s benefits, safety and dangers.
- Receive a safety briefing
- Listen to a talk about the benefits of drones
- Find out what the rules and regulations are around flying a drone
- See the drone in flight
Parenting in Today’s Digital Age
1:30pm – 2:30pm, Saturday 26th October 2019 @ BDF2019 Festival Hub
A participative, coaching-led talk that invites parents to reflect on the digital world that their children are growing up in and how best to navigate their way through it. The idea is to first get parents thinking about their own relationship with digital media (after all, our children learn from us, so we need to become aware of our own behaviours), and then to better understand what’s going on for their children.
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