The CoderDojo Coolest Projects Awards show that Irish children are amongst the best in the world when it comes to dreaming big and inventing brilliant things.
A Rubik’s Cube-solving robot built by 11-year-old Katie Reilly was one of the top winners at the CoderDojo Coolest Projects Awards, 2016.
Over 10,000 people attended the event to watch in awe as children of all ages demonstrated their inventions and their coding skills.
A sample of the projects includes witness flood warning systems, robotic dog feeding apps, and mobile phones that don’t require a network
These were just some of the great inventions revealed by 800 young innovators aged between 5-17.
Genius in action
Katie Reilly (pictured above) built and programmed a Lego robot that completes the Rubik’s Cube automatically. She also developed the Rubik’s Mania website, a platform devoted to the coloured cube.
Katie, from Kimmage, has been coding for three years and programmed her site in HTML
“I wanted to create a site that detailed the full history and different types of the cube, along with instructional videos on how to solve the puzzle.
“I built the robot from Lego and coded it in Lego’s Mindstories language,” said the schoolgirl from Bishop Galvin, Templeogue.
A low-cost phone for developing countries
12-year-old Jasper Brezina Coniffe from Dublin’s Warehouse Dojo was a winner in the Future Makers category with Everyfone, a low-cost phone for developing countries that does not require a network.
Not to be outdone, Jasper’s brother Harvey (14) took the Innovator’s Special Prize for his invention startups.coderdojo.xyz – a website that allows kids in CoderDojo to get a website up and running in minutes.
Flooding with ideas
A flood gauge warning system invented by 11-year-old Shay Fahy from Athenry designed to alert whole communities and surrounding areas by email or tweet when flooding is imminent was a winner in the Best Hardware category.
The next generation
