SXSW Panel Picker - Vote for Kainos!

Date posted
20 August 2013
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Peter Connaghan

SXSW Panel Picker - Vote for Kainos!

At Kainos, we feel really passionate about educating, inspiring and nurturing the next crop of programming talent. Just have to look at our AppCamp, CodeCamp and Health Hack initiatives which show how committed we are to bringing programming to a wider audience. Kainos CTO Tom Gray has the chance to present at SXSW Edu next year, and his talk will explore how the next generation of programming talent can be inspired and nurtured. We really need your vote to secure Tom's place on the panel. View the synopsis of Tom's talk below, and click the image to vote! PanelPicker_Vote Back to School - bringing coding back to schools While Northern Ireland has been recognised as a source of highly capable software developers, since mid-2000s we have seen a reduction in the number of students opting to pursue a Computer Science/Software Engineering degree at University. We believe that this is not related to ability. Rather it is a consequence of the removal of programming content from schools in favour of a very high level "ICT" syllabus which emphasises use of ICT as opposed to software development. The staff of local IT company, Kainos, decided to mobilise to address this problem and created a series of initiatives to bring coding education to young people to allow them to make informed choices about their career. The initiatives included hackathons, summer camps, innovative work placements, competitions, talks with a view to reaching parents, teachers and government, as well as young people. This talk will explore how the next generation of programming talent can be inspired and nurtured.

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Peter Connaghan