Bell Time Magazine Autumn/Winter 2015 | Page 17

BellTIME Silicon Armada wants to help your school with The Hour of Code 2015 Silicon Armada is a search engine for tech jobs. It's our mission to connect the tech community with tech employers around the world and we want to offer our expertise to secondary schools in Ireland during the Hour of Code 2015. Computers are everywhere, but fewer schools teach computer science than 10 years ago. Good news is, we’re on our way to change this. If you've heard about the Hour of Code before, you might know it made history. More than 100 million students have tried an Hour of Code. With the Hour of Code, computer science has been on homepages of Google, MSN, Yahoo! and Disney. Over 100 partners joined together to support this movement. Last year, every Apple Store in the world hosted an Hour of Code and even President Obama wrote his first line of code as part of the campaign. This year, let's make it even bigger. Silicon Armada is asking your school to join in for the Hour of Code 2015. Please get involved with an Hour of Code event during Computer Science Education Week, December 7-13. Get the word out. Host an event. Try the Hour of Code yourself or Contact Silicon Armada to book an Hour of Code in your school - everyone can benefit from learning the basics. Get started at http://hourofcode.com/ie Places are subject to availability and early booking is advised! [email protected] Phone number: 0429370460 32 BellTIME