About this event

Please bring your own laptop, although we have some extra laptops for people who can't bring their own.

Scratch story making for children in KS 1 and 2
Come and make your own interactive Halloween Digital Story in Scratch.

Digital stories are the best - heroes and setting of a great book, and real action and interaction too! Using art and creative writing to create strong characters and setting; bring your story alive with action between the characters, and then make your story interactive.

Interactive web emoji for students in KS 3 and 4
Come and make your own interactive Halloween emoji in HTML and javascript.

Web pages are like great books, with the added beauty of movement and interaction! Using HTML, javascript and real online software development tools, you too can make your witches, cats and pumpkins interactive, and take them home to amaze your friends and family.

Please bring you own laptop, although we have some extra laptops for people who can't bring their own.

About the host, John Reeves
John Reeves is a software validation engineer for safety critical systems, with 4 beautiful children attending primary and secondary schools in Bath.

He will be ably assisted in the workshops by software engineers and STEM graduates who are already caught up in the exciting worlds of creating awesome things and also showing children how to create awesome things with software.