Join us during Cornwall Tech Week (4-12 Dec) please find below further details about the week below including;

School Assembly Visits – volunteers needed
Cornwall’s First Tech Jam – all welcome
A week of events for education and the community
Work Experience 2016

Cornwall Tech Week is an idea supported by Cornwall College, Software Cornwall and Volunteers from the local tech community to support teachers and students with the new Computer Science GCSE and raise awareness of Career Pathways and bring together the tech community in Cornwall. We hope Cornwall Tech Week will become an annual event where schools and businesses can work together to develop a positive digital engineering career pathway for the future.

Tech Champion Visit : Cornwall Tech Week – Career Pathways School Visits

As part of Cornwall Tech week volunteers from tech businesses from across the county are volunteering to visit secondary schools to talk to students in their assemblies prior to taking their GCSE options in January. We would like to give students a better understanding of the career pathways available in the tech sector in Cornwall, especially within digital and software engineering.

We aim to visit every secondary school in Cornwall, during tech week 5-12 December or before GCSE options are taken in January.

We have a 20 minute presentation suitable to give during assembly for volunteers to use and will help to match you with a school and organise a date and time to visit.

Volunteer Schools Assembly Match Table

If you would like to volunteer to visit a school please reply as soon as possible or contact [email protected] for further information

Tech Week Events

Community Events

Details of most events can be found at www.softwarecornwall.org or through
http://www.meetup.com/Cornwall-Digital/

Events include:

Fri Dec 4th – 9am-5pm GDG DevFest Cornwall on Polymer Web Components, Falmouth
http://www.meetup.com/Cornwall-Digital/events/226847169/

Thurs Dec 10th Digital Entrepreneurs and the Internet of Things, Falmouth
http://www.meetup.com/Cornwall-Digital/events/226967207/

Friday Dec 11th – Software Cornwall Community December Meetup tbc
http://www.meetup.com/Cornwall-Digital/events/226847229/

Saturday Dec 12th – Cornwall Tech Jam – Bodmin College
Join Software Cornwall at the first Cornwall Tech Jam open event, all welcome
http://www.meetup.com/Cornwall-Digital/events/226568805/

Teaching Events

As part of Cornwall Tech week we are hosting a number of FREE events where teachers can come along and find out more about the Computer Science GCSE curriculum, teaching resources and link up with local tech champions ready to help support their local schools.

Events include Lego Education at Eden, #hourofcode at Eden, Truro College & Bodmin College
Details of events and booking can be found at https://cornwalltechweek.org/

Key contact for teaching events : Mike Trebilcock <[email protected]>

Schools Work Experience Week Collaboration 2016

Software Cornwall working collaboratively with members are planning to run a Work Experience week for students who would like the opportunity to work as part of a development team and business.

In the past two years we have seen requests for work experience places increase and busineses are unable to cope with the volume of requests now received, we therefore plan a collaborative event where students get to experience working as part of a dev team in a business environment.

We have a provisional week of the 4-8^th July 2016 and have initially scoped a Mission to Mars event for 15-20 students. Students work in teams as part of a new business venture that requires coding of robots to undertake various challenges to deliver a product for a Mars Mission contract the new business has won.

The week provides a great experience for students where they can get hands on and gain real work experience. The final day will have the teams present their work and speak to the business community about careers opportunities and pathways.

Local businesses are sponsoring the experience with MyMediaLab and Bluefruit Software confirmed as sponsoring the first two teams and providing a mentor for each team.

If you would like to sponsor a team or a student place on the experience or you would like to volunteer to be a mentor please let us know!

[email protected]

New Membership Model Released

We are pleased to confirm that we have launched a new membership model for the network, membership now provides levels for Friends, Freelancers and a range of service based Business member options.

Find out more about connecting, promoting, developing and growing your business and supporting the tech community

Software Cornwall is a Not for Profit organisation and its activites are funded and delivered through the support of its members, sponsors and volunteers.

https://www.softwarecornwall.org/membership-2/