Make Music with Code! Learn to code with loops, beats, and effects with an online multi-track audio mixer!
Middle School STEM Challenge
In this challenge, you will make an app to survey friends, family, and others about the topic of your choice.
Reach the Stratosphere!
Join a team of High School girls to design, construct, and launch a High Altitude Balloon. Send your balloon into the stratosphere! It’s FREE! No experience necessary, just an interest in making cool things!
AllSides
AllSides is an app for people involved in bullying created by a team of local girls coding with Thunkable.
Valley Gives Day!
More the 2,400 kids from Holyoke and the surrounding communities have learned about coding and robotics at our free workshops. Please help support our work!
Code Week!
Code Week is a project to bring a coding and robotics experience to all seventh grade students in the Holyoke Public School system.Each of the seventh graders in Holyoke have a week with 4 field trips to our classroom at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center.
Build a Platformer!
We created a platformer template that you can use to learn Scratch programming!
Got Game!
We invited local teens to design and create games at a series of workshops in collaboration with the Holyoke Youth Task Force and a series for girls with Girls Inc. of Holyoke. Our workshops empowered teens to create games that address social issues in a positive way, creatively engage with technology, and explore issues important to them. They became creators of culture, instead of just consumers.
Why Computer Science is Important
Holyoke Codes began with Computer Science Education Week in 2014. We offered a series of workshops introducing kids to coding as part of this international effort to give kids around the world exposure to computer science Computer science and the technologies it encompasses lie at the heart of our economy, daily lives, and scientific enterprise. As the digital age has…
Stranded
Jack started coding Scratch at a Holyoke Codes workshop in February. He created this game about Mars called “Stranded” that was featured on the Scratch homepage. Pretty amazing what you can do – try it out and check out some of his other projects!
Questions for Rosie?