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Young Rewired State – Festival of Code 1st round up 15 Aug 2013 | 04:19 am
This is a long video post – go make tea first… “It can make a grown man cry” is the repeated phrase I keep reading and hearing. Here’s why… What we do at the Young Rewired State (YRS) Festival of Co...
Young Rewired State in New York 1 Aug 2013 | 06:02 pm
In July this year (2013) we brought Young Rewired State to Queens in NYC, to the Museum of the Moving Image. Have a look at what was built and the Eventifier synopsis of the event over on the Young Re...
Hack day prizes – please stop 25 Jun 2013 | 02:00 am
This may seem like a pointless post but I am so fed up of the increasingly insane monetary rewards being offered for hack days, that attract entrepreneurs not coders – usually entrepreneurs with an id...
Charles Saatchi and a de-humanised society 16 Jun 2013 | 07:44 pm
Like many people I was almost vomiting up my breakfast this morning when I saw the photos of Charles Saatchi gripping his wife around the neck in a clearly aggressive way – and then pictures of her bi...
A YRS 3D shopping project: help required 14 Jun 2013 | 01:32 am
As you can imagine, I get asked a lot about what kinds of projects Young Rewired Staters (YRSers) work on (Young Rewired State is a network of programmers aged 18 and under). I often dodge the questio...
Help! We have coding kids and missing centres 9 Jun 2013 | 09:17 pm
Dear all, The Festival of Code is hotting up and we have hundreds of kids signing up across the UK. There are a couple of places where we have young programmers but no centre to go to, so please could...
Calling all bedroom programmers 5 Jun 2013 | 02:13 am
Young Rewired State (YRS) this year (5) is growing. The community is growing and the strength of that community is becoming the most important thing to every child who is currently, or has been, a par...
The great gender divide: Girls don’t recognise tech as key 4 Jun 2013 | 03:09 pm
Today sees the launch of the Telefónica Global Millennial Survey which I have been really looking forward to. I have not had a chance to read all of the findings yet and am watching on Livestream the ...
How hack days have grown up 10 May 2013 | 06:18 pm
For the past five years we in Rewired State have been running hack days. Initially to encourage the UK government to open up its data, removing the fear and uncertainty of what developers might do wit...
{young} Rewiring the States – starting in New York 7 May 2013 | 02:29 pm
Rewired State has been hosting Young Rewired State (YRS) for five years, finding and fostering children aged 18 or under driven to teach themselves how to code. YRS introduces these youth to open gove...
