Eircom Junior Spider Awards Shortlist

This year I was honoured to be one of the judges on the Eircom Junior Spider Awards. Today, Eircom has announced the shortlist for this year’s eircom Junior Spider Awards. Similar to previous years, the Awards are divided into three main categories: The Mega Spiders aimed at youths aged 4 – 12 years; the Giga aimed at youths aged 13 – 15 years and Tera Spiders which are aimed at youths aged 16 – 19 years. You can see all the details on the Junior Spiders’ web site. As Anseo.net is aimed at primary school children, I’m just going to list the Mega Spider Awards. It was amazing to see the talent at such a young age and all the below are a credit to themselves.

Best Individual Project

• Hans’ Story, Killeen NS, Laois
• Katie Taylor, Gaelscoil Uileog De Burca, Mayo
• reCharge My eCar, CoderDojo DCU, Dublin
• Thomas Edison, Killeen NS, Laois
• World War 2 by Oisín Byrne, Killeen NS, Laois

Best Group Project

• ‘Pi in the Sky’ Can we design and make a Homemade goal line technology system using Raspberry Pi? Peter’s Primary, Bray, Wicklow
• Farm Safety 4 Kids, Cloghans Hill NS, Mayo
• Inver National School Blog, Inver National School, Mayo
• Aiden’s Website, St. Aiden’s National School, Sligo
• Technology Threaders, St Brigid’s National School, Dublin

Creative Web Coding

• Coding at the Core of Digital Democracy – EUDojo 2014, Blackrock Castle Coder Dojo, Cork
• Cool Kids Studio, Coderdojo, Dublin
• HTML in Inver, Inver National School , Mayo
• QUICKDOJO, Dingle CoderDojo, Kerry

The award ceremony will take place on Monday, 20th April at Facebook HQ, Dublin.