Castlemakers CoderDojo receives gift from Techpoint Foundation for Youth

Maggie Cline and Courtney Lambert from Techpoint Foundation for Youth give Brian Howard and Chris Hebb from Castlemakers 10 new Dell Chromebooks for use in the CoderDojo in Greencastle. Castlemakers started the CoderDojo last October for Putnam and surrounding county youth aged 7-17. The club is part of the more than 1,000 sites worldwide that the CoderDojo Foundation in Dublin, Ireland, supports.

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Castlemakers, a makerspace in Greencastle, received 10 Chromebooks for its CoderDojo programming club.

Techpoint Foundation for Youth gave the 10 laptops to improve CoderDojo activity access for students who cannot bring their own hardware.

Castlemakers started the CoderDojo last October for Putnam and surrounding county youth aged 7-17. The club is part of the more than 1,000 sites worldwide that the CoderDojo Foundation in Dublin, Ireland, supports.

The gift came from CoderDojo Indiana, an initiative of the Techpoint Foundation for Youth and the Walmart Foundation, established to encourage more youth in Indiana to get excited about computer science.

The CoderDojo club welcomes all youth interested in learning about computer coding or improving their skills. The free, volunteer-led, community-based club also welcomes anyone interested in helping kids learn about programming.

The next CoderDojo is Saturday May 3 from 1-4 p.m. and more information is available at http://castlemakers.org/coderdojo/.