The Irish Códaithe Competition is a competition set up by three 2nd year students from Killorglin Community College.

The Irish Códaithe Competition is a coding/technology event in Killorglin Community College on Saturday 27th February. On the day there will be two competitions going on, the first is a CoderDojo Competition for Kerry CoderDojos. The second competition will be an Open Competition for any group or individual from the county that has a technology based project. These competitions will create a platform for young people to showcase what they do and the projects they have made. Each project from both competitions will be judged and there will be prizes.

We have Bank of Ireland as our main sponsor for the event, The CoderDojo Foundation as another sponsor, Splash Graphic Designs, Tweak.com, The Brand Geeks ,ITEireann and FEXCO, to date. We are actually setting up a website at the moment and we also have a thriving active Twitter, Facebook and Instagram account. Please follow and like us on these. We are also in constant contact with Mary Dunphy Moloney (CEO of CoderDojo Foundation Worldwide), Peter O'Shea (Communications and Events at CoderDojo Foundation Worldwide), Ross O'Neill (CoderDojo Foundation Worldwide liaison lead) and Seán Kelly (MEP).

The Event will take place in Killorglin Community College, Langford St., Killorglin, On Saturday 27th February at 12:00 p.m. to 15:00 p.m. All are welcome.

Projects entering the competition can vary from a website to an app, to a Scratch game etc. All ages can enter the Irish Códaithe Competition. It is important that you contact us before the event if you would like to enter a project. Contact us at theirishcodaithecomp@gmail.com .On the day we will have 2 Raspberry Pi (is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into a computer monitor or TV, and uses a standard keyboard and mouse.) for the public to test and try out, Drone flying, a Virtual Reality headset, Intel Galileo (similar to a Raspberry Pi) and much much more.

This is going to be a huge event as we want to show that here in Co. Kerry we have a strong and thriving technology based community which we hope, in the future will encourage young people to use technology to their advantage in their lives and careers. Seán Kelly ( Member of the European Parliament) is very much behind our project as he is all for supporting & encouraging The Youth of Ireland to get Coding.

Our launch took place at the Holiday Inn, Fossa with Seán Kelly MEP and Fergus Clifford, Manager of Bank of Ireland Killorglin.