Code and Chips

12th October 2016

Year 7 students from Melbourn Village College took part in a special computing enrichment trip this week.

Code & Chips, organised by ARM and hosted in Cambridge, saw our students explore modern computing technologies and take part in an interactive Minecraft workshop.

Computing teacher James Richardson said: “This trip is a great example of how exciting computing can be and how Cambridge is at the forefront in developing these new technologies.”

Students spent the day exploring the various activities on offer, including a robot fight club, virtual reality headsets and viewing some of the exciting projects that can be done with a Raspberry Pi and BBC micro: bit.

In the afternoon they completed a Minecraft workshop where they used the Python programming language to teleport and alter the world around them.

Student Ben Nicholls said: “I enjoyed the workshop as it allowed me to be creative and build upon the code that was given to me in the first place. I would recommend it to all my friends in Computing and Science.”

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